ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5, an updated version of its ElevenMusic generator, now available through both the app and API. The company says blind testing with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs showed listeners preferred v2.5 over the prior version, particularly for R&B, Hip-Hop, and orchestral genres.

Adobe has moved Firefly's Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects tools out of beta and into general availability on desktop and mobile web. The tools produce commercially licensed audio without requiring a separate subscription, and Firefly has also added Gemini Omni Flash, Runway Aleph 2.0, and Kling 2.0 to its third-party model roster.

OpenAI released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, improving word error rate to 3.31 percent and cutting prices 25 percent to $0.0045 per minute. Independent benchmarks still place OpenAI behind ElevenLabs, Google, and Mistral on transcription accuracy.

ServiceNow released AU-Harness, the first comprehensive benchmark for code-switched speech recognition in enterprise voice agents, testing seven ASR systems including ElevenLabs, Gemini, and AssemblyAI. The benchmark covers 918 utterances across Spanish-English, French-English, Canadian French-English, and German-English, measuring Word Error Rate (WER), Semantic WER (SWER), and Answer Error Rate (AER). ElevenLabs Scribe V2 achieved the lowest WER across all language pairs, followed closely by AssemblyAI Universal-3 Pro.