Gartner Magic Quadrant for conversational AI platforms 2025

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Top Updates 💪

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for conversational AI platforms 2025 (CX Today)

• Google Gemini can now read your Docs aloud (The Verge)

• Krisp launches AI Voice Translation v2.0 (CXM Today)

• Zoom expands AI in customer service with new use-case (CX Today)

• Identify speakers in meetings, calls, and voice apps in real-time with NVIDIA Streaming Sortformer (NVIDIA Developer Blog)

• Tesla upgrades EV voice assistant system with DeepSeek and ByteDance (SCMP)

• CallMiner releases OmniAgent (Destination CRM)

• Class‑action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private conversations (NPR)

• Pixel 10 translates your calls and mimics your voice (Android Authority)

• AI in-car assistant market size to reach $15B by 2031 (The Bubblear)

• Aqua Voice shows just how good Mac dictation could be (9to5Mac)

• Workday Acquires AI Conversational Recruitment Tool, Paradox (RSWebSols)

• Meta rolls AI-powered audio translations for video (Yahoo Finance)

• ElevenLabs launches Eleven v3 (Alpha) API: Advanced TTS with multi-speaker dialogue and emotional voice control (Blockchain.News)

• Whispering: Open-source STT app boosts privacy and user control (WebProNews)

• Redefining patient access through Agentic AI in healthcare call centers (Becker’s Hospital Review)

• Transcosmos releases Trans-AI VoiceBot–in South Korea (AiThority)

• Infinix unveils AI buds with translation in 162 languages (That Eric Alper)

• Perplexity's new Comet browser has voice and dictation modes (MakeUseOf)

• Draft follow-up emails after calls with Zapier Agents (Zapier Blog)

• Strolid and Frontline Group redefine the contact center through Virtualized Conversations (GlobeNewswire)

• Deepgram teams with AWS on voice AI deployment (Channel Insider)

• AI combines with old tech to give a woman her voice back (Digital Trends)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Bloomberg’s AI researchers turn Whisper into a true streaming ASR model at Interspeech 2025 (Bloomberg)

• Krisp review: Still #1 noise cancellation & AI meeting assistant? (Ruhani Rabin)

• List of best AI voice cloning software (MobileAppDaily)

• Local meeting notes with Whisper and Ollama summaries (DEV)

• Speech synthesis API for TTS (DEV)

• A Polish medical speech dataset for automatic medical dictation (Nature)

• Cartesia introduces Azzurra-Voice (Cartesia Blog)

• Best AI voice bots for sales teams : Top 5 picks (Under30CEO)

• Whisper vs. Google STT: Which one should be used? (ClickUp Blog)

• Hands-on testing with the tiny recorder Plaud AI Note: (Evening Standard)

• Avalon, an ASR model optimized for human-computer interaction (Aqua Blog)

• The best 5 real-time voice changers for Discord (NoobFeed)

• Best AI voice generator for YouTube Shorts: Top tools (ZoomBangla)