Conversational AI to reach $57B

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Google launches 'Search Live' for real-time voice interactions (Google Blog)

• You sound like ChatGPT (The Verge)

• Conversational AI market to reach $57B by 2032 (MENAFN)

• 8x8’s vision for the future of customer experience (ZDNet)

• Apple devices offer amazing STT transcription in developer betas (9to5Mac)

• How the TIME AI Audio Brief was built (Time)

• IBM Granite tops Hugging Face speech recognition leaderboard (IBM Research)

• SoundHound’s Amelia 7.0 launch: A turning point for voice AI? (Yahoo Finance)

• Target Dial sets a new standard in AI voice automation (GlobeNewswire)

• Deepgram launches enterprise-ready, real-time voice agent API (Business Wire)

• Darwix AI raises $1.5M to build GenAI sales conversation stack (BW Disrupt)

• AI Audio Stemmer instantly splits songs into editable audio stems (TrendHunter)

• Appy Pie Agents launches AI voice agent to automate calls (WIVB/EIN Presswire)

• Warning: Voice deepfakes continue to improve (KnowBe4)

• Nurix AI launches NuPlay to power voice agents (Smart Customer Service)

• Vodex voice AI agents power next-gen debt collection (PR Newswire)

• The future of conversational AI in business (The Independent)

• Alibaba recruits top Chinese AI scientist Li Xiangang to lead speech-recognition push (SCMP)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Top B2B AI Agents: Which ones actually work? (DesignRush)

• 4 of the best TTS apps for foreign languages (MSN)

• Soniox: Voice AI that works in the real world (Soniox)

• ElevenLabs introduces MCP for conversational AI customization (ElevenLabs)

• How to build Agentic AI chatbots: A step-by-step guide (Dev.to)

• Perplexity AI vs Grok AI comparison: which ai assistant is better? (ClickUp)

• StepFun introduces Step-Audio-AQAA: A fully end-to-end audio language model for natural voice interaction (MarkTechPost)

• Evaluating multimodal speech models across diverse audio tasks (HackerNoon)

• Restoring voices and identity with neuroengineering (UC Davis Health)

• The science behind audio‑aware language models (HackerNoon)

• Vosk API: Offline open source speech recognition toolkit (GitHub)

• Build an audio‑to‑text conversion tool using Azure AI Speech SDK (Dev.to)

• Give your app a voice: a guide to integrating AI voice APIs (CSSAuthor)

• GCP fundamentals Cloud STT API (Dev.to)