Rustisk is an experiment that rewrites Asterisk in Rust: over a million lines of C turned into ~204K of Rust, with its own SIP stack, memory safety and SIP 2-5x faster. Promising, but still far from production. We take a look.
Until just a few months ago, the «sound barrier» in Artificial Intelligence wasn’t fidelity, but latency. We could generate voices indistinguishable from humans, but the waiting time (the «thinking» phase) made fluid conversation impossible. Microsoft broke the ice with its sub-100ms system, but the Open Source community has responded with staggering speed. In less than … Top 7 Text-to-Speech (TTS) Projects That Surfaced This Month.