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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 2 posts
Voice AI in 2026 — ElevenLabs / Cartesia / Sesame / Whisper Turbo / Deepgram / Parakeet Deep Dive
In October 2024 Whisper Large v3 Turbo got 8x faster, Cartesia (built by the Mamba authors) hit sub-90ms TTS, and Sesame from Brendan Iribe launched "voice presence." By May 2026 the TTS, STT, and realtime-agent axes hav
2026-05-15 · 22 min read #voice-ai#tts#stt#asr#elevenlabsAI Voice 2026 — ElevenLabs, OpenAI Realtime, Cartesia, Vapi, Sesame, Deepgram, and the State of the Voice Agent Stack
The final piece of the generative-media quartet — after music, images, and video comes voice. An honest take on the 2026 AI voice landscape. ElevenLabs (voice cloning and Conversational AI), OpenAI Realtime (WebRTC-based
2026-05-14 · 30 min read #ai-voice#elevenlabs#openai-realtime#cartesia#vapi