Hot week in Voice AI 🔥

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Sarvam AI: The Indian startup that beat Google AI and ChatGPT (India Today)

• Google Docs rolling out Gemini-powered audio summaries (9to5Google)

• NotebookLM turns PDFs into podcast-style conversations (WebProNews)

• Apple prepares to enable third-party AI voice assistants in CarPlay (mlq.ai)

• The case for agentic AI in CX is accelerating (RingCentral)

• Krisp appoints CX veteran Harry Folloder to lead Enterprise Voice AI (Krisp)

• Startup aiOla strives to fix AI speech recognition woes (SiliconANGLE)

• Telnyx & Telarus join to accelerate AI-driven communications (Telecom Reseller)

• T-Mobile’s live translation AI agent will be baked into your phone calls (CNET)

• Corsound AI and IngenID partner on integrated voice security platform (ID Tech)

• Apple-backed AI model can generate sound & speech from silent videos (9to5Mac)

• Voximplant brings Cartesia Line voice agents into real calls (GlobeNewswire)

• How voice AI is reshaping customer support (No Jitter)

• Kyutai releases simultaneous speech-to-speech translation model (MarkTechPost)

• Speechmatics and Boost.ai join forces to deliver “responsible” voice AI for regulated industries (Customer Service Manager)

• Vonage and C3 AI partner on network-enabled, agentic AI field services solution for mobile workforces (Telecom Reseller)

• Travel Outlook unveils major upgrades to Annette, the Virtual Hotel Agent, powered by PolyAI (Hotel News Resource)

• How Dyna.Ai and Ejada Systems are betting big on AI-powered call centers in Saudi Arabia (WebProNews)

• Simple AI raises $14M to build voice AI agents that sell (Yahoo Finance)

• VCONIC and Speechmatics announce strategic partnership to transform conversation intelligence in healthcare and financial services (The Manila Times)

• Secai raises 6.2m series a to scale healthcare automation (Financial Post)

• Newo raises 25m to scale AI voice infrastructure for small businesses (Startup365)

• The future of voice-controlled workspaces: Use cases, implications (Gadget Flow)

• Do people really want wearable AI voice recorders? (SoundGuys)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• LuxTTS: Lightweight voice cloning that fits in 1GB VRAM (Hackernoon)

• RoomKit, Pipecat, TEN Framework, LiveKit Agents: Choosing the right conversational AI framework (DEV)

• Connecting AI voice agents to SIP & PSTN using NextGenSwitch (DEV)

• The rise of local speech recognition (Oatmeal)

• TranzyNote: Silent copilot for every meeting (TranzyNote)

• A complete guide to OpenAI’s Whisper API (DEV)

• Building content-safe language learning apps (DEV)

• Top audio to text tools in 2026 (TechBullion)

• Beyond noise suppression: Dynamic distortion control loss for speech enhancement and robust ASR (IEEE Xplore)

• Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation (GitHub)

• Build voice AI in Python: complete STT developer guide 2026 (DEV)

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