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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’s new VibeVoice marks a striking shift in what open-source text-to-speech can do: from short, single-voice clips to hour‑scale, multi‑speaker spoken audio that resembles a produced podcast — and it’s available now for researchers and tinkerers to try. The framework packages a compact...

Microsoft’s VibeVoice-1.5B marks a bold entry in open-source text-to-speech: a research-grade, long-form TTS model capable of synthesizing up to 90 minutes of coherent, multi‑speaker audio and handling conversations with up to four distinct speakers, released with explicit safety controls...

Here's an in-depth look at channeling your Windows 11 audio to multiple speakers, perfect for parties, home theaters, or a multi-room setup. The process can seem daunting at first, but by unpacking the steps and exploring alternative methods, you'll soon be the audio maestro of your space...