This GPT-4o voice demo is 🤯 Updates from Meta, PolyAI, GreyLabs, WellSaid and much more 🔥

GPT-4o voice mode early access demo showing its capabilities:

AI researchers developed a new Listening-While-Speaking Language Model:

Top Updates 💪

• SoundHound acquires Amelia AI for $80M after it raised $189M+

• OpenAI finds that GPT-4o does some truly bizarre stuff sometimes

• PolyAI partners with AWS to boost of next-Gen voice AI in customer service

• How AI is reshaping the customer experience

• WhatsApp will give ability to convert speech to text

• Bolt upgrades Driver App chat with ability to translate speech to text

• SoftBank’s balancing act; Analysing conversations with GenAI

• RingCentral sees double-digit revenue growth, enjoys a surge in RingCX bookings

• GreyLabs AI bets on GenAI to analyze customer conversations and get insights

• Interra Systems presents Media QC, monitoring, analysis solutions at IBC2024

• Trial lawyer’s AI-powered voice tool brought Lori Cohen back to her life

• Google project Astra: The AI assistant we have been waiting for?

• WellSaid unveils verbal cues, phonetic respellings, and enhanced security

• Ema raises $36M to build universal AI employees for enterprises

• People can now speak all languages in their own voice with GalaxyVoice.ai

• Bee raises $7M for its wearable AI assistant that learns from your conversations

Noteworthy 💪

• How popular is machine translation post-editing?

• The bright future of voice self-service

• Transforming business communication: The power of AI-driven phone calls

• FCC to require improved closed captioning accessibility for English and Spanish

• UC round table: Conversational intelligence and analytics

• This caller does not exist: Using AI to conduct vishing attacks

• Deepfakes: The AI scam you didn’t see coming

• A guide to AI voice agents for business owners and leaders

• TTS and virtual reality agents in primary school classroom environments

• AI in business: Elevating CX and energising employees

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Science and Demo Corner 😎

• Bytedance researchers present cross language agent 

• A real time speech translation on VoIP number

• Guidebook to reduce latency for Azure STT and TTS applications

• Audio-powered robots: A new frontier in AI development

• VioLA: Conditional language models for STT, TTS, and translation

• A Beginner’s guide to TTS algorithms with real-life examples

• Speech recognition: Metrics and architecture

• Multi-granularity generative error correction with LLM for joint accent and STT

• Keyword guided target speech recognition

• Tibetan speech synthesis based on pre-traind mixture alignment FastSpeech2

• Speaker identification in single track productions