Walkie launched a tool that converts speech into polished text in any app, creates meeting transcriptions with notes and speaker attribution, and reads content aloud in voice options. It offers playback in 950+ voices and is available for free with fully on-device use when you want. The change is that Mac, Windows, Linux, and iPhone users can now run these speech and voice features starting today.
Polyglot launched as a native Mac app for turning recordings into subtitles, translating SRT/VTT files, and exporting readable transcripts locally. It offers 7 days of unlimited transcription and translation for free, with Pro priced at €29.99 once. The app consolidates editing, bilingual exports, batch translation, and video enhancement/compression into one workflow, with free access to editing, conversion, exports, and video tools.
Seven voice-cloning providers were tested using the same 10-second reference audio to compare similarity, consent checks, licenses, languages, and per-1M-character pricing. Fish Audio’s s2-pro scored 4.03 for same-speaker sounding likeness, the highest on Hume’s September 10, 2026 leaderboard. The article concludes no single provider wins every criterion and recommends different APIs depending on needs like budget, latency, strict consent, language coverage, watermarking/deepfake detection, or emotion-directed delivery.
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