Deshawn Calloway

Whisper wasn't built for emotions, but researchers extracted real signal anyway.

Three separate legal regimes now govern voice cloning, each with its own rules.

Popular STT accuracy scores hide massive performance gaps across accents and dialects.

AI can now clone any voice from just seconds of audio.

AI voices now handle audiobook backlogs that human narrators alone cannot scale to meet.

Blind arena testing, not vendor scorecards, reveals which text-to-speech models actually sound best.

Real enterprise voice AI breaks on telephony integration, not model quality.

Use generative AI for what it writes; use conversational AI for what it decides.

Discrete audio codes let transformers generate speech like language models generate text.