Audio and speech generation enables AI systems to produce natural-sounding voices, music, and other audio directly from text or structured inputs. Modern models can convert written text into expressive speech, clone voices, generate sound effects, and even compose music, making audio a powerful new interface for AI applications.

These capabilities are widely used in voice assistants, audiobooks, podcasts, customer support bots, accessibility tools, and multimedia content creation.

In this chapter, you will learn how audio and speech generation models work, the key technologies behind them, and how to integrate them into real-world AI systems.