Google Fi rolling out AI-enhanced audio to Android, iPhone and more this week!

Voice AI weekly digest

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Top Updates 💪

• Google Fi rolling out AI-enhanced audio to Android, iPhone (9to5Google)

• Zakipoint Health Inc. and Voicegain partner to transform healthcare engagement with AI-powered solutions (MarTechSeries)

• Blazeo unveils SmartHub, a conversion intelligence platform (PR Newswire)

• UJET acquires Spiral to address customer data analysis roadblocks (CX Today)

• Mitel introduces Mitel CX 2.0 (DestinationCRM)

• Interface.ai unveils industry-first Agentic BankGPT platform (GlobeNewswire)

• The return of voice: AI’s role in shaping the future of CX (CallCentreHelper)

• Teneo.ai launches Teneo 8 voice AI platform (DestinationCRM)

• TELUS Digital & Fuel-IX: Making voice AI real-world ready (Telecom Reseller)

• Voize raises $50M for AI nurse scribing (Axios)

• Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital (TechCrunch)

• Synthio Labs raises $5M in funding (FinSMEs)

• Freya raises $3.5M in funding (FinSMEs)

• AI voice fraud is exploiting contact centres (TechRadar)

• MeetYu Life Coach introduces conversational AI for personal growth (AiThority)

• The rise of AI as a real-time coach in the modern contact center (CMSWire)

• TicNote Pods: World’s 1st 4G AI note-taking earbuds (China Gadgets Reviews)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Open ASR Leaderboard: Trends and insights (Hugging Face)

• Real-time speech AI got faster with Parakeet-Realtime-EOU-120m (LinkedIn)

• VDK 6: The new collaborative suite for building voice-enabled workflows and applications for offline environments (LinkedIn)

• Real-time speech-to-speech translation (Google Research Blog)

• Best AI note takers — tested, compared and ranked (TechBullion)

• Run a Kokoro TTS locally or as a high-throughput server (YouTube)

• A modular event-driven architecture for real-time voice AI (Dev)

• How to reduce errors in voice typing: Master the art of accurate dictation (Dev)

• How to build an AI voice agent with PaplaAI TTS model (Dev)

• AfriSpeech-MultiBench: A verticalized multidomain multicountry benchmark suite for African accented English ASR (arXiv)

• Offline ESP32 voice recognition with Edge Impulse (Hackster.io)

• Retraining-free pruning TTS synthesis model for speaker cloning (IEEE Xplore)

• On-device evaluation of joint speech-text embeddings for ASR, TTS, and speaker recognition tasks (IEEE Xplore)

• Echo: Diffusion-based TTS with fast, high-fidelity voice cloning (Jordan Darefsky)

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