Teaching speech models to breathe: prosody beyond punctuation
Human speech isn't just words with pauses — it's breath, hesitation, and intent. How we model the silence between sentences, and why it's the hardest part of sounding alive.
Read more →Research feed
Essays, engineering deep-dives, and case studies from the Naissance team.
Human speech isn't just words with pauses — it's breath, hesitation, and intent. How we model the silence between sentences, and why it's the hardest part of sounding alive.
Read more →Every cloned voice on Naissance starts with a verified consent statement and ends with an inaudible watermark. A technical deep-dive into how both actually work.
Read more →An independent studio localized their festival release for nine markets over one weekend — keeping every actor's original voice. Here's the full workflow.
Read more →Conversational agents die at 300ms of latency. How chunked synthesis, speculative decoding, and edge inference get us under 100ms without losing quality.
Read more →Whisper it, shout it, say it like you mean it. Emotion sliders and per-word emphasis are now available in the studio and the API.
Read more →