Meta acquires WaveForms. And much more!

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI is expanding GPT-5 with advanced voice features (Tom’s Guide)

• Krisp launches even more natural-sounding Accent Conversion v3.7 (Krisp)

• RingCentral and NiCE extend AI partnership (Telecom Reseller)

• One UI 8 adds a new Galaxy AI feature, but there’s a catch (Android Authority)

• 8x8 boosts AI CX platform to increase engagement (MarTech Series)

• Xiaomi releases open-source AI Voice Model MiDashengLM-7B (WinBuzzer)

• Taking the bitter lesson to heart for speech-to-speech models (MetaVoice)

• Xiaomi rolls out edge AI voice to 500M devices (FourWeekMBA)

• Capacity secures $92m to boost AI support for contact centers (Telecom Reseller)

• Krisp Launches Filipino Accent Conversion for AI Assistant (AITechPark)

• RingCentral takes AIR everywhere (Telecom Reseller)

• How Puzzel’s AI-driven platform turns talk into transformation (CX Today)

• Elevating enterprise AI through true multimodal intelligence (SoundHound)

• ReSpeaker XMOS XVF3800: AI-powered 4-mic array for clear voice (Seeed Studio)

• Automakers race to add voice AI to connected vehicles (IEEE Spectrum)

• Owll Translator app introduces AI voice cloning (GlobeNewswire via Fox4KC)

• How deepfake vishing tricks people and avoids detection (Ars Technica)

• SoundHound and Acrelec are taking drive-thrus into the future (InsiderMonkey)

• Rifa AI raises $1.1M to expand voice AI solutions (Economic Times)

• Hi, AI speaking: Hiring goes vernacular with voice AI (Analytics India Magazine)

• Smart IVR vs traditional IVR – A comparison for decision-makers (TechBullion)

• AT&T boosts Office@Hand with AI contact center & conversational AI (TMCnet)

• How Speech Graphics is pioneering human-to-AI interactions (80 .lv)

• Attention labs redefines voice and audio AI for everyday life (BigNewsNetwork)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Kitten TTS : A TTS model that runs in your browser (X)

• CapCut shows AI narrator video effect for creators (Eastern Mirror Nagaland)

• Krisp Pro — The upgrade you didn’t know you needed (Medium)

• Notiq — AI-powered private voice memos (BetaList)

• They tested three TTS AI models to see which is best (ZDNet)

• Toward low-latency end-to-end voice agents for telecommunications (arXiv)

• C3: A bilingual benchmark for spoken dialogue models (arXiv)