AI voice agents: 2025 update (a16z) 🚀
a16z published their latest AI voice update (A16z) 🔥
Top Updates 💪
TTS market is poised to grow from $3.6B in 2023 to $14.6B by 2033 (Tech.einnews)
He tested open-source Conversational Voice AI solutions, so we don’t have to (LinkedIn)
Conversation AI software market size, share and forecast by key players (Openpr)
AI-Media to debut Lexi Voice translation tool (Svgeurope)
Deepgram empowers 200,000+ developers to build Voice AI in 2025 (Businesswire)
Galaxy AI translation enables borderless communication (Insights.samsung)
RingCentral Events unveils Studio, boosts AI experiences (Telecomreseller)
8×8 enhances customer & employee experience with innovations (Telecomreseller)
Nvidia’s made mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional (Theverge)
Eleos secures $60M for behavioral health with AI agents (Mobihealthnews)
Yale & Berkeley dropouts raise $2M for OpenAI rival AI (Venturebeat)
Unwrap, customer intelligence platform, raises $12 million Series A (Fortune)
AI chatbot developer Zaion raises €11 million (Finextra)
How AI-generated voice will transform the advertising sector (Forbes)
Here's where the investors see untapped potential in Voice AI (Businessinsider)
Enterprise Connect 2025 announces finalists for Best of Enterprise Connect Industry Awards (BusinessWire)
Big CX news from ServiceNow, Zoho, Salesforce, & Kore.ai (CXToday)
Google’s incredibly lifelike AI can now call businesses for you (TechRadar)
Voice AI Podcast 🎙️
In case you missed the latest episode of Voice AI Podcast…
Engineering Corner 😎
Sound advice: optimize your website for voice search (Kinsta)
Advancing speech translation to fix cascaded model errors (Hackernoon)
Parallel hierarchical encoding in human auditory cortex & ASR (Biorxiv)
Multi-noise representation learning for robust speaker recognition (Ieeexplore)
High-quality TTS implementation via active shallow diffusion mechanism (Mdpi)
Chatbot with semantic kernel - Text-to-speech (Dev)
Voicetapp AI speech to text transcription (Techdirt)
VOSK the offline speech recognition (Dev)
Plaud Note: AI Voice recorder with transcription & translation (Hardwarezone)
