Luke Oliff · Developer relations
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I'm Luke Oliff, Head of Developer Relations at Speechify. I write about docs, developer communities, and the craft of making APIs easy to build with. Everything I publish lives here.
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MCP goes stateless on Monday. Here's what breaks and what to do about itOriginalThe MCP 2026-07-28 spec lands July 28 with the initialize handshake and session IDs removed, new required headers, and Roots, Sampling, and Logging deprecated. I read the release candidate and wrote a minimal stateless handler so you can see the new wire format before it ships.AI
Best TTS Providers 2026: Comparison of the Top 10 APIsThe top 10 text-to-speech APIs of 2026, benchmarked on the independent Artificial Analysis Speech Arena. Simba 3.2 is tied for the best-rated voice at $6 to $10 per million characters, a fraction of Cartesia, Deepgram, and ElevenLabs. Self-hosted models left out.Voice AIvia speechify.ai
The Guardrails Worked on Exactly the Wrong PeopleOriginalWhen an AI agent breached Hugging Face this month, the responders reached for frontier models to analyse the attack and got refused. The attacker had no such problem. If your incident response depends on someone else's safety filter, you don't have an incident response plan.AI
Open Weights Are Eating AI: Here Are the 7 Best Open TTS Models and the Gap Nobody MentionsOriginalThis is the biggest open-weight week AI has ever had: DeepSeek V4’s stable release lands July 24 and Moonshot’s Kimi K3 weights go free on July 27, days after K3 topped a major coding leaderboard…Voice AI
Fortnite Is About to Run the Biggest Real-Time TTS Deployment in GamingOriginalEpic Games is giving 36 Fortnite characters AI voices for a “conversations” feature that leaves its experimental phase on July 30, 2026, letting creators publish islands where NPCs talk back,…Voice AI