Top Updates 💪
Parloa raises $350M at $3B valuation (TechCrunch)
Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation (Reuters)
Listen Labs raises $69M to scale AI customer interviews (VentureBeat)
Flip raises $20M after automating 300M+ voice AI calls (TechStartups)
VoiceRun raises $5.5M for enterprise voice AI control (SiliconANGLE)
Krisp appoints Vimal Nair as Chief Growth Officer to lead India expansion (Krisp)
Hands-on with Bee, Amazon’s latest AI wearable (TechCrunch)
Meta Ray-Ban glasses add conversation focus for noise reduction (WebProNews)
Dialpad launches real-time AI in Japan (MarTechSeries)
Speechify launches Voice AI Assistant on iOS (9to5Mac)
Voximplant brings xAI’s Grok Voice Agent to production calls (The Manila Times)
Multimodal intelligence in finance industry: Audio intelligence (Medium)
Canary’s AI Voice recognized as best hospitality solution (Hospitality Net)
RingCentral named a leader in the IDC MarketScape (Telecom Reseller)
India ‘talks’ the AI walk (Inc42)
Willow Voice enables accurate, natural dictation (TrendHunter)
OmniSpeech brings deepfake voice detection into Zoom meetings (ID Tech)
AI Voiceover Software Market to hit $105.71B by 2035 (Market.us)
Engineering Corner 😎
Pocket TTS: A 100M-parameter TTS model with high-quality voice (X)
NovaSR: Tiny audio SR model, just 52kb (X)
StepFun Introduces Step-Audio-R1.1 (X)
Why your voice agent needs structure with Pipecat Flows (Daily)
TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models (Google Blog)
The best dictation and STT apps for writers (The Write Practice)
Agent CLI: A collection of local-first, AI-powered command-line agents (PyPI)
Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR (Google Research Blog)
Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 unleashes 12x performance boost (Portal Linux Ferramentas)
STEAMROLLER: A multi-agent system for inclusive automatic speech recognition for people who stutter (arXiv)
Implementing AI voice agents in retail: Key challenges and solutions (DEV)
