Top Updates 💪
India enters Global Speech Arena with Maya1 (X)
RingCentral announces agentic voice AI communications suite (RingCentral)
Rime On‑Prem TTS is now generally available (Rime)
Soniox launches an app for transcribing and translating any speech, in any language (Soniox)
Synthflow AI appoints CX heavyweight as new Global Revenue VP (VentureBeat)
Alexa+ will power BMW’s in‑car voice assistant (About Amazon)
Plaud Intelligence 3.0: Where conversations start thinking for you (MSN)
8×8 sees surge in AI adoption as it races to deliver faster, smarter customer engagement (MarTechSeries)
AI recorder ring deepfakes your voice for thought‑interface (Gizmodo)
ICIR unveils NativeAI for newsroom transcription and translation (This Day Live)
Telnyx expands Sabre capabilities with enterprise voice AI solutions for travel and hospitality (Telecom Reseller)
Voice AI Giga raises $61M to expand enterprise voice AI (Fortune)
Popai Health raises $11M to transform care coordination (Morningstar)
Subtle Computing raises $6 M in seed funding (FinSMEs)
aiOla unveils Drax: 5× faster than competitors & with top accuracy (PR Newswire)
Otter.ai enters Japanese market with AI meeting agent support (BusinessWire)
AI is supercharging scams and making fake calls sound real (WLBT)
How voice AI is enabling clinical decision‑making (The Sunday Guardian Live)
The voice layer in the age of AI: Why speech still matters (UC Today)
Midwest Cardiovascular Institute and Basata partner to modernize cardiac care with voice AI (PR Newswire)
Voice AI Podcast 🎙️
Accent AI’s 80+ NPS Impact in India | James Bednar and Biju Pillai (TTEC)
In this special edition of the Future of Voice AI series of interviews, we're joined by industry vets to unpack: - How clarity became a measurable KPI for CX quality and trust - How TTEC identified and solved global voice challenges across regions - Real results: customer satisfaction, agent confidence, cost efficiency improvements and more
Engineering Corner 😎
One-second voice-to-voice latency with Modal, Pipecat, and open models (Modal)
Inworld TTS 1 Max is the leader on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Leaderboard, surpassing MiniMax’s Speech-02 series & OpenAI’s TTS-1 series (X)
DF_Arena_500M_V_1 — a universal deepfake & antispoofing model from the Speech Arena team (X)
Private voice assistant using open‑source tools (freeCodeCamp)
Emotional Kyrgyz speech synthesis model presented (24 kg)
Building an AI‑powered digital receptionist (DEV)
The best audio to text converters in 2026 (TechBullion)
A privacy‑first AI voice cloning tool with local LLMs (DEV)
Voices enables fast TTS for Java applications (InfoQ)
Machine learning in Linux: Dia – 1.6B parameter TTS model (LinuxLinks)
Thanks for writing this, it clarifies a lot, and it's truly incredible how fast voice AI is evolving globally, making me wonder how we will manage the deepfakes and privazy issues as this technology becomes even more pervasive.