Releasesby Glyph- 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.
Also shipped Aug 10, 2026Gradium in August 2026 →
BigQuery supports gemini-3.1-flash-lite and gemini-3.5-flash GA models
Both models work in all BigQuery generative AI functions and are available on the us, eu and global multi-regional endpoints.
AI_MULTI_EMBED support for large video files in semantic video search (General availability)
Snowflake Cortex AI_MULTI_EMBED is now generally available for semantic video search with support for large video files up to 6 GB using the TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 model, enabling organizations to index and search production-grade video content directly in Snowflake.
Amazon S3 Tables Iceberg REST catalog integration (General availability)
Snowflake can now connect directly to the Amazon S3 Tables Iceberg REST endpoint, so you don’t need to create an AWS Glue integration. This capability is now generally available.
Request Access in Workspaces (Preview)
With this preview release, you can resolve access-related SQL errors in Workspaces by submitting access requests directly from Snowsight. When a query fails because of missing privileges and the user can’t self-resolve the issue by switching roles, the user can submit a request with a reason.
READ METADATA privilege is GA
The READ METADATA privilege is now generally available in Unity Catalog. READ METADATA provides read-only visibility into the same metadata available to the object's owner or a user with MANAGE , including security-sensitive information that BROWSE doesn't expose, such as privilege grants, row filters and column masks, and ABAC policies.
Notion connector (Beta)
The managed Notion connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests pages, data sources, databases, blocks, comments, and users from Notion into Databricks. See Notion connector .
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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.
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.
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.
A 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.
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.
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.
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.