Async Developer Platform

kept by eddie mar 12

Async Developer Platform launches a low-latency TTS API with voice cloning, 15+ languages, and pricing starting at $0.50/hour, claiming faster response times than ElevenLabs and Cartesia.

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
A developer built a sub-500ms latency voice agent by co-locating and aggressively pipelining STT, LLM, and TTS stages. Commenters debate trade-offs vs. end-to-end models, endpoint detection alternatives, and the difficulty of human-like turn-taking.
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GitHub - resemble-ai/chatterbox: SoTA open-source TTS
Resemble AI releases Chatterbox Multilingual V3 and Turbo, open-source TTS models with improved speaker similarity, reduced hallucinations, and paralinguistic tags.
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A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents (EVA)
ServiceNow's EVA framework jointly evaluates voice agents on task accuracy and conversational experience, revealing a consistent accuracy-experience tradeoff across 20 systems.
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Upload to URL - Instant File Hosting with API Access
Upload to URL is an API-first file hosting service that gives developers instant CDN-backed public URLs for automation and integration workflows.
also on n8n, #api, #developer-tools
AI and the great CMS unbundling
AI drives the cost of content creation toward zero, making a CMS's control layer (approvals, roles, trust) more critical wherever content is shared across people and systems.
also on n8n, #developer-tools