Google Fi to add AI noise cancellation + more this week!

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Google Fi to add AI noise cancellation (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI expands into music and speech translation (Digital Information World)

• WellSaid boosts AI speech with faster, natural voice production (SiliconANGLE)

• Otter.ai recasts itself beyond meeting notes (FindArticles)

• Microsoft copilot gets 12 big updates for fall (VentureBeat)

• Aurigin.ai integrates audio deepfake detection with India’s misinformation combat alliance (ID TechWire)

• Contact center economics in the age of voice AI: An inside look (CX Today)

• NVIDIA, Microsoft, ElevenLabs top new ASR leaderboard (Slator)

• AI-enabled voice systems move from hype to measurable impact (NoJitter)

• Vogent released Vogent-Turn-80M turn-detection model (LinkedIn)

• Voice AI and the future of human-computer interaction (ExpressComputer)

• Whryte 4x faster than typing: Offline STT app for Mac (Geeky-Gadgets)

• Zendesk AI Summit unveils resolution platform and Voice AI agents (Info-Tech)

• Sesame raises $250M and launches beta (TechCrunch)

• Dialpad expands into autonomous CX with agentic AI platform launch (Info-Tech)

• Strong customer adoption of Webex AI Agent for contact center (Webex Blog)

• Contact center economics in the age of voice AI: An inside look (CX Today)

• Blobfish AI: Interview with CEO about the conversational voice company (Pulse2)

• AI translation glasses make their academic debut (KoreaBizWire)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Fish Audio S1, the most expressive and natural TTS model on the market (X)

• Neural audio codecs: How to get audio into LLMs (Kyutai)

• MiMo-Audio — Xiaomi-MiMo-Audio demo (Xiaomi MiMo Audio Demo)

• Summarizing speech: A comprehensive survey (arXiv)

• Accurate semi-supervised ASR for ordinary and characterized speeches via multi-hypotheses-based curriculum learning (PLOS ONE)

• Lightweight end-to-end diacritical Arabic speech recognition using CTC-transformer with relative positional encoding (MDPI)

• Deep learning for inner speech recognition: a pilot comparative study of EEGNet and a spectro-temporal Transformer on bimodal EEG-fMRI data (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)

• Building a scalable high-accuracy audio to text system handling noise crosstalk and grammar (Medium)

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