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Top Updates 💪

• Consumer Reports: Most AI voice cloning tools are vulnerable to scams (ZDNet)

• Anthropic CEO warns spies target $100M AI secrets (TechCrunch)

• Sesame releases its base AI model (TechCrunch)

• Meta’s next Llama models may have upgraded voice features (MSN)

• Cartesia, voice AI startup, raises $64 million Series A (Fortune)

• Voice AI tech is revolutionizing customer service and contact centers (Forbes)

• AI voice generators market to reach USD 40.25 billion by 2032 (GlobeNewswire)

• Trusst AI raises funding from OIF ventures (Finsmes)

• Noctal raises $1.8M in Seed funding (Finsmes)

• Authenticx launches healthcare-specific AI for contact centers (PR Newswire)

• New industry standard unlocks 7 revenue streams in 2025 (TelecomReseller)

• Soynet enables AI-powered multilingual interpretation (24-7 Press Release)

• Podcastle’s new AI voice model delivers faster and cheaper TTS (Podnews)

• AudioPost transcribes speech for notes, emails, and posts (TrendHunter)

• Wei Duan on advancing AI for seamless wearable tech (TechBullion)

• Transcosmos upgrades TranSpeech to AI-powered speech recognition (PRWeb)

• How law firms are using AI Voice technology for client consultations (AJS)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• New research tackles challenges in AI speech recognition and translation (Slator)

• Build an AI agent with LiveKit for real-time STT (YouTube)

• Understanding multimodal AI agents in human-computer interaction (Dev.to)

• Visatronic: A Multimodal decoder-only model for speech synthesis (Apple Machine Learning Research)

• Implementing TTS with BARK using Hugging Face’s Transformers library in a Google Colab environment (MarkTechPost)

• How conversational AI Works: Understanding NLP, machine learning, and context awareness (The Future of Things)