Releasesby GlyphA new Speech-to-Text model is now live on the standard endpoint
A new Speech-to-Text model is now live on the standard endpoint. Transcription is more robust on low volume audio, so soft speakers and far field microphones are recognised with improved reliability. Endpointing is more reactive, so the end of an utterance is detected sooner and voice agents can start responding with less delay.
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AI code suggestions in Workspaces (General availability)
AI code suggestions in Cortex Code are now generally available. This release also includes updated keybindings and bug fixes. Notebook Python cells , no changes to keybindings.
Snowflake Native Apps support for Virtual Private Snowflake on AWS for apps with containers (General availability)
Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services now support Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) on Amazon Web Services. Apps with containers can be distributed to Snowflake customers in VPS deployments. Apps running in VPS can use the functionality of Snowpark Container Services, including compute pools, services, jobs, and external access integrations.
Python UDTFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available
Registering Python user-defined table functions (UDTFs) in Unity Catalog is now generally available in Databricks Runtime 18. A Unity Catalog Python UDTF is a governed function that returns a table, invoked in the FROM clause of a SQL statement to return multiple rows and columns.
Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters
Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters. To enable this feature on an existing cluster, contact your Google Cloud account team. IAM group authentication for AlloyDB is available in Preview for new clusters running PostgreSQL 15 and later.
Vercel Connect now supports Custom Environments
Vercel Connect now lets you link a connector to a Custom Environment so deployments there can request provider tokens and receive forwarded webhooks. Custom Environments appear alongside Production, Preview, and Development when you add or edit a project on a connector in the dashboard.
AIP Document Intelligence: deploy extraction strategies as Python functions (GA)
Deploying extraction strategies to Python functions is generally available in AIP Document Intelligence, as an alternative to running a strategy in a batch pipeline.
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A new Gradium Text-to-Speech model is available in public beta
A new Gradium Text-to-Speech model is available in public beta. It handles complex text natively, with no pre-processing or normalization on your side: phone numbers in national and international formats, email addresses, IBAN numbers, time expressions, reference codes, measurements, URLs and ordinals.
Our live translation models ( stt-translate for translated transcription and s2s-translate for...
Our live translation models ( stt-translate for translated transcription and s2s-translate for Speech-to-Speech) now produce more natural, more accurate translations, with better context understanding across a conversation. The quality gains are most noticeable on conversational speech. See Speech-to-Speech and the Speech-to-Text overview to get started.
Get the vocabulary specific to your product transcribed correctly: brand and product names, people, places...
Get the vocabulary specific to your product transcribed correctly: brand and product names, people, places, drugs, and jargon. Pass a dictionary of the terms you care about in your STT json_config , and the model gives them priority while decoding, in real time, with no retraining.
- Model selector in Gradium Studio : the Text-to-Speech page now has a Model dropdown to switch between the...
- Model selector in Gradium Studio : the Text-to-Speech page now has a Model dropdown to switch between the production model and gradium-tts-beta , showing each model_name with a copy button. Shareable studio links : pre-configure a session with ?voice= , ?model_name= , ?text= and ?language= and share the full setup as a single link.
2026.02
We're excited to announce major updates to the Gradium API and Gradium Studio, delivering enhanced text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) capabilities for developers and enterprises.
Speech-to-Text requests now require a language in json_config
Speech-to-Text requests now require a language in json_config . Our ASR gives its best results when the language is known, so set it whenever you can: en , fr , es , pt , or de . When the language is not known ahead of time, pass any and the model detects it from the audio. Requests that already set a language or any are unaffected.
A new Gradium Text-to-Speech model is live and is now the default
A new Gradium Text-to-Speech model is live and is now the default. Existing voices, including custom voices, work as-is. The model reads the structured entities that break voice agents in production, such as phone numbers, email addresses, IBANs and reference codes, with no pre-processing or text normalization needed.