a16z thesis on AI Voice Agents 🚀 Updates from ElevenLabs, Avaya, Truecaller and others 🔥

Top Updates 💪

• Conversational systems market set to surpass $114B by 2031

• Scarlett Johansson fights for her voice

• AI narrows specific sounds for headphone users

• Truecaller's launches an AI scanner detecting voice scam

• The expanded Avaya-RingCentral partnership: A closer look

• Cerence to power Zeekr multilingual AI assistant

• Kardome partners with KT corporation to bring Voice AI to IPTV users

• ElevenLabs moves beyond speech with AI-generated Sound Effects

Noteworthy 💪

• Klick Labs develops deepfake detection method focusing on vocal biomarkers

• Speakly AI shines at VivaTech 2024 with Its LLM-based conversation intelligence

• Conversational Voice AI for L&D: Coaching, role playing, and more

• The AI voice as a tool for captivating consumers

• The rise of AI assistants – How they’re reshaping everyday life

• How denoising LM (DLM) improves speech recognition accuracy

• Maven AGI’s $28M funding signals the rise of generative AI in customer support

• A recent FTC challenge: New techniques emerge to stop audio deepfakes

  

• Is texting a thing of the past? Voice notes take center stage

  

• Top 10: AI tools with which you can convert from audio to text

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Science and Demo Corner 😎

• LookOnceToHear: Target speech hearing with noisy examples

• A new model to produce more natural synthesized speech

• ChatTTS: A TTS model created for dialogues that supports English and Chinese

• Announcing Sonic: A low-latency voice model for lifelike speech

• Pipecat: An open-source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI

• Pretraining and adaptation techniques for electrolaryngeal speech recognition

• Morse wavelet transform-based features for voice liveness detection

• Khoj's AI agents allows you to create always-available, personal AI agents

• ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio