According to PR Newswire.Smallest.ai, a San Francisco, California-based artificial intelligence startup focused on multimodal modeling, introduced the Lightning Text-to-Speech (TTS) model, capable of generating up to 10 seconds of audio in 100 milliseconds.
This advancement enables developers around the world to build highly realistic voice-robot applications with sub-second latency, simplifying the implementation process and providing access at a significantly lower cost.
Lightning currently supports multiple accents of English and Hindi, and the team plans to add more languages quickly.
Priced as low as $0.02 per minute (or about Rs. 1.6), Lightning provides a cost-effective solution that enables applications to run at less than Rs. 1 per minute, thereby significantly reducing costs and expanding access to the market for voice bot builders.
While Lightning is used for real-time use cases, it can also be used to create audiobooks as well as reel-to-reel voiceovers on Instagram, YouTube, and many other social media platforms. For non-developers, Lightning is available on the Waves Speech platform, which supports voice cloning, accent conversion, and other features in test mode.
When asked about its mission, Sudarshan Kamath, Founder of Smallest.ai said, "Despite the incredible advances in voice AI, why aren't humans talking to AI voices every day? That's the question we're trying to solve."
About Smallest.ai:
Smallest.ai was founded by IIT graduates Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi and is backed by reputed investors like 3one4 Capital , Better Capital and Upsparks Capital.