audio-expressions

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly gained a practical, no-nonsense speech option: Scripted Mode, a new setting inside Copilot Labs’ Audio Expressions that reads user-provided text verbatim. The change, publicly teased by Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman on September 10, 2025, is short on...

Microsoft's Copilot Labs has quietly expanded the Audio Expressions sandbox with a new Scripted mode, bringing a verbatim reading option to a feature set already known for expressive, multi‑character voice synthesis—and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft is moving aggressively into...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly taken a big step toward true multi-document reasoning: recent hands‑on reports and company disclosures show the assistant on Windows 11 and the web can now synthesize information across multiple uploaded files in a single request, enabling workflows that...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment turns text into talk — and, in early tests, it sounds more like a collaborator than a canned text‑to‑speech bot. The company has quietly introduced MAI‑Voice‑1, a high‑throughput speech generation model surfaced in a new Copilot Labs experience called Audio...

Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...