Crazy week in Voice AI! 🤯

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Hume launches TTS model Octave with customizable AI voices (VentureBeat)

• ElevenLabs is launching its own STT model (Techcrunch)

• ConverzAI raises $16M for AI recruiters with 30% efficiency boost (VentureBeat)

• Salesforce and Google bring Gemini to Agentforce, enabling more customer choice in major partnership expansion (Salesforce)

• Announcing free, unlimited access to Think Deeper and Voice (Microsoft)

• Empowering innovation: The next generation of the Phi family (Microsoft)

• Real-time translation, accent smoothing, AI agents – Krisp & CX Today explore the future of CX (CX Today)

• Scammers use voice clips to create AI clones (CNET)

• Zoom secures its largest-ever contact center deal (CX Today)

• Speechmatics unveils speaker diarization to improve meetings AI (UC Today)

• How AI voice will change advertising (Voices)

• Telnyx unveils Voice AI for human-like conversations at scale (GlobeNewswire)

• Deepdub partners with AWS to advance AI media localization (PR Newswire)

• Cresta announces rapidly scaling AI voice agents in production (PR Newswire)

• Bliro raises €28M for AI-powered conversation intelligence platform (Tech)

• Bridgetown Research raises $19M in Series A funding (Finsmes)

• GibberLink: Breakthrough in how voice assistants communicate AI-to-AI (eWeek)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Speech emotion recognition using fine-tuned Wav2vec2.0 and neural controlled differential equations classifier (ResearchGate)

• The technical blueprint behind Superdial’s healthcare voice agents (OpusResearch)

• Deepgram’s STT model secret: synthetic data generation (DataScienceCentral)

• How the Emilia dataset advances multilingual voice synthesis (MarkTechPost)

• Combining TF-gridNet and mixture encoder for continuous speech separation for meeting transcription (Arxiv)

• Enhancing multimodal AI: bridging audio, text, and vector search (Dev)

• Unlocking scalable audio transcription with Gemini (Cloud.google)

• Best AI voice agents (Play)