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Introducing Realtime TTS-2, a new generation of voice model built for realtime conversation. It is the first voice model that hears the conversation, takes natural-language voice direction, holds one voice identity across over 100 languages, and speaks like a person who is paying attention. The result is voice AI that feels as good as it sounds. Try it out: tinyurl.com/RealtimeAI Learn More: tinyurl.com/TTS-2Blog

@faionur @AbstractVC @generalcatalyst @usv Congrats Fai and the Wishroll team! Watching you go from launch to 1M users to redefining what AI entertainment looks like has been incredible. Proud to power the AI models and infra behind Status. This is just the beginning!

Status has raised $17M in seed and Series A funding led by @AbstractVC, @generalcatalyst and @usv to let anyone step inside their favorite stories, become famous, and live a million different lives. We quietly launched Status last year and grew to over 1 million users in 19 days - making us the fastest growing AI app since ChatGPT. But we hit a (predictable) snag - the app was incredibly expensive to run. How do you serve millions of users without degrading the product with a cheap LLM? So the team locked in: we rebuilt the whole experience, and our technical bets paid off. Our users now spend 35 minutes on average to (90 minutes each day for power users!), and millions of characters and worlds have been created. All by our users. The next frontier of entertainment is mobile-first and deeply personal. Traditional mobile games take years to build and rarely stick. TV shows are fleeting in the age of streaming. Status is different. It is not a game you finish, it is a world you can live in. Status is a new category entirely: Immersive Social Entertainment, and we believe strongly that it is the next great entertainment paradigm. We’ve 10x’d to millions in annual revenue in Q1 2026, we're just getting started. On Status, you can be anyone.

"We built four different metrics for 'conversational' before realizing nobody had agreed on what that word meant." That's the whole problem with TTS evaluation right now. There's no single score that tells you if a voice model is good. It depends on the use case, the language, the latency requirements, the domain. @altsoph our Head of Evaluations wrote up why the industry is grading these models wrong, and why "best for what exactly?" is the only honest question worth asking. Learn more: bit.ly/4dQv0P1

A lot of people have been talking with Calder this week, so @cshape_ popped by to thank him. Try: tinyurl.com/4b4t85jv Build: tinyurl.com/4b4t85jv

Don’t start the weekend crashing out alone We teamed up with @inworld_ai and @Anam__ai to build a hyper interactive agent that watches your face and observes your tone. When you go quiet, it notices. When you look like you're about to lose it, it softens. Try it (you're welcome): visionagents.ai

Try out our voice profiling: tinyurl.com/stt-playground… Demo the full conversational pipeline: tinyurl.com/stt-realtime-cm

We just shipped something nobody else has. Our STT API doesn't just transcribe, it returns a full voice profile in the same response: emotion, accent, age, pitch, style, each with a confidence score, all in one call. When you feed that into our Realtime API, the LLM decides not just what to say but how to say it. It adds steering tags that our TTS-2 model picks up and uses to guide how it speaks. So, if a user sounds frustrated, the voice responds with empathy. If they're excited, it matches that energy. Here's our very own @ClintMcLean_ walking you through how the full pipeline works:

Learn more here: ai.azure.com/catalog/models…

Microsoft and Inworld partnered to make it easier to deploy enterprise-grade voice agents into production. Now, @Azure customers can deploy Inworld's top-ranked, Realtime TTS 1.5 max model directly into their own Azure environment through AI Foundry or Azure Marketplace. Azure customers can consume Inworld models using existing MACCs or start new. You'll get full control over where your data lives. And because Inworld TTS is built for realtime interactions, conversations with your voice agents will feel natural and responsive.

Inworld AI x GMI Cloud: Get the Most Out of Your Voice AI x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Tomorrow morning at 9am PDT we'll be demoing our latest realtime experience featuring Realtime TTS-2. Come learn how easy it is to get started with Inworld TTS and @gmi_cloud! Register at luma.com/fbfd4dqn

@IgorIlyinsky During our research preview we offer provider pricing with no markup. You can check it out here: inworld.ai/models

@inworld_ai How do you price something like this?

Today we're releasing the latest component of our Realtime product suite: Realtime Router. Realtime Router enables you to route every request to the best model for every user and context. Pass language, country, tier, or emotion as metadata, and the router picks the optimal model in real time. One API across hundreds of models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more. Plus automatic failover, A/B testing on live traffic, OpenAI SDK compatibility (just swap your base URL), and intelligent routing based on cost, intelligence, latency, and more. Use it to power your end-to-end conversational AI pipeline with Inworld, or just to optimize your LLM spending and user experience.

Test it in our playground: tinyurl.com/realtimerouter Learn more: tinyurl.com/InworldRouter

@milsvo81 Hi @milsvo81, thanks for calling this out. It should be working now!

The #1 TTS is now available on-device Running our TTS locally is something we've been working toward for a while. Today it's in private preview. Leaderboard-topping quality, no cloud inference costs, no network dependency. Just the model on your hardware running locally.

🎙️ Voice AI workshop: Thursday, May 14 @ 9 AM PT We are joining @inworld_ai for a 30-min live session on getting the most out of voice AI: → Realtime 2.0 demo with @cshape_ (@inworld_ai) → AI podcast producer built on Inworld's API, live from @roangws → Open Q&A: bring your use cases and questions for the Inworld team RSVP here: luma.com/fbfd4dqn