Huge updates from OpenAI, Meta, Google, NVIDIA, Google and others 🔥

OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look

Top Updates 💪

• Meta releases Llama 3.2 — and gives its AI a voice

• NVIDIA launches translation AI and multilingual speech microservices

• NotebookLM enhances AI note-taking with YouTube and audio file sources

• Meta launches AI Dubbing and Speech Translation

• Unlimited possibilities for service providers in conversational AI

• These celebrities loaned their voices to Meta AI's new speech feature

• Jingzhunxue debuts open-source speech LLM FlowMirror

• TwilioGPT modernizing telephone and voice systems using LLMs and NLP

• Doctorpresso debuts depression-detecting voice journaling app

• AI detects hypertension in voice recordings

• Yubi and AI4Bharat to build India’s first ASR engine for financial inclusion

• Google suite leverages conversational AI for customer support

• MindsDB launches conversational enterprise-ready AI that shows how it thinks

• Best of show winner Illuma Labs raises $9 Million in Series A funding

• Prepared, which wants to ‘revolutionize’ emergency 911 calls, raises $27M

• AI-powered customer support startup Ujet raises $76M

• Nurix AI raises $27.5M to scale development of custom enterprise AI agents

• Max is getting Google AI-generated closed captions

Noteworthy 💪

• AI-powered tech could help people with speech impairments to work remotely

• A user tried Google's AI podcast creator and is now unsure what's real anymore

• Improving voice recognition for people with speech disabilities

• STT learns to understand people with Parkinson's disease—by listening to them

• Bank warns of voice-based AI scams that could utilize your social media posts

• Voice artists sue tech company for 'stealing their voices'

• How AI impact voice recognition systems? Trends and innovations

• Multimodal LLMs in health care: Applications, challenges, and future outlook

• How your brain tells speech and music apart

• Can ChatGPT do reliable call center sentiment analysis?

• The 4th revolution in customer experience & AI

• Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pin

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Science and Demo Corner 😎

• Meet TEN, the world's first truly real-time multimodal agent framework

• PDF2Audio: Convert PDFs to podcasts, lectures & more audio

• Let’s talk about some cool Azure AI Speech SDK/API Endpoint

• Using a speech language model that can listen while speaking

• Novel MultiTalker speech recognition with speaker tokens

• Contrastive speaker representation learning for speaker recognition

• Exploring the world of open-source text-to-speech models

• A novel AI approach that combines audio coding and source separation

• Voice and chat agents using Amazon Connect, Amazon Lex, and Amazon Bedrock

• Retirement: Conversation Transcription Multi Channel Diarization