# xAI Releases Grok Voice with Speech-to-Speech Capabilities

> xAI has added a genuine voice mode to Grok, rolling out a speech to speech model on August 5 that lets people talk with the assistant and get spoken replies rather than typing back and forth. The same update pushed Grok Imagine's video generation to 1080p, with support for text to video, image to video, and reference to video inputs. The features themselves are not novel, since voice and video generation are quickly becoming table stakes across the major assistants. What is notable is distribution. xAI is shipping these across web, iOS, Android, X, and Google Workspace, leaning on its position inside a social platform to put the tools in front of a lot of people at once. Grok's underlying model scored a 61 on the Artificial Analysis Index, keeping it competitive rather than leading. The clearer story here is xAI treating voice and video as consumer surface area to fight over, betting that reach and integration matter as much as raw benchmark position.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: xAI · Published Friday, August 14, 2026_

## Wortins' read

xAI has added a genuine voice mode to Grok, rolling out a speech to speech model on August 5 that lets people talk with the assistant and get spoken replies rather than typing back and forth. The same update pushed Grok Imagine's video generation to 1080p, with support for text to video, image to video, and reference to video inputs. The features themselves are not novel, since voice and video generation are quickly becoming table stakes across the major assistants. What is notable is distribution. xAI is shipping these across web, iOS, Android, X, and Google Workspace, leaning on its position inside a social platform to put the tools in front of a lot of people at once. Grok's underlying model scored a 61 on the Artificial Analysis Index, keeping it competitive rather than leading. The clearer story here is xAI treating voice and video as consumer surface area to fight over, betting that reach and integration matter as much as raw benchmark position.

## Source

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