Releasesby GlyphOur 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.
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BigQuery cross-cloud connections query AWS, Azure and Salesforce in preview
Cross-cloud connections query data in AWS, Azure and Salesforce Data 360 from all BigQuery regions, support more BigQuery features and are more cost efficient than BigQuery Omni connections.
BigQuery JDBC driver adds OpenTelemetry tracing and logging
The JDBC driver for BigQuery now supports OpenTelemetry for tracing and logging, with automatic exports to Google Cloud Observability, helping monitor and troubleshoot database interactions. It is generally available.
Inline Stored Procedures for hybrid tables (Public preview)
Inline Stored Procedures for hybrid tables are now available in public preview. Inline Stored Procedures are a new type of Snowflake stored procedure designed for operational workloads on hybrid tables.
Organization Hub (General availability)
The Insights page under Organization Hub presents interactive tiles that show trends, alerts, and summary data for your entire organization. The feature is now generally available to customers who have ORGANIZATION_USAGE premium views enabled, and is no longer in Preview .
AI Agents Inventory in the Trust Center AI Security tab (Preview)
With this preview release, the AI Security tab in the Trust Center includes an AI Agents Inventory section. This section provides a consolidated inventory of the Cortex Agents in your account, filtered by one or more categories, so that you can identify which agents to assess or investigate for better governance and security posture.
Trust Center AI Security scanner package and tab (General availability)
The AI Security scanner package and the AI Security tab in the Trust Center are now generally available. Use them to monitor AI-related configurations and usage in your account, and to review the security posture of AI workloads that use Cortex Agents, Snowflake CoWork, or Cortex Code from a single dashboard.
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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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.