Meta AI launches Voice Mode 🔥 And much more...

Meta launches Spirit LM open source model that combines text and speech inputs/outputs 🔥🔥🔥

Top Updates 💪

• Decagon and Neuron7 raise $65M and $44M to transform customer service

• OpenAI launches public beta of realtime API for low-latency speech interactions

• Gemini live is available to all Android phones - for free

• Gladia raises $16 million in a Series A for real-time audio processing

• Canary Speech launches real-voice analysis solution for clinical conversations

• ConverzAI accelerates industry transformation with AI-powered virtual recruiters

• Vonage launches Intelligent Workspace

• Avaya helps Transcom to overcome language barriers with real-time translation

• Amazon's AI generator tool can now create audio ads

• Amazon Transcribe supports streaming transcription in 30 additional languages

• London-based Neuphonic raises €3.5M to transform Voice AI with TTS solution

• Parakeet Health raises $3M for expansion, development

• Google launches NotebookLM Business to make enterprise AI audio, text

Noteworthy 💪

• The booming Voice AI landscape: A VC perspective

• How to get more out of Google's free AI voice assistant: 7 tips and tricks

• New Chrome extension aims to detect deepfake AI-generated voices

• Sound like a Human: The future of voice modulation is here

• How to win more customers with conversation intelligence

• Audio: Why call quality enhancement is worth shouting about

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Science and Demo Corner 😎

• Multimodal Ichigo Llama 3.1 - Real Time Voice AI

• Omni SenseVoice: High-speed speech recognition with words timestamps

• Aavaaz app: Transforming industry communication with ASR, TTS, Translation

• Vivoka: 3 Voice AI demos

• AIR-Bench: A new benchmark for large audio-language models

• Introducing Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, cost-efficient multilingual TTS mode

• Vocode: Build Voice-enabled AI apps with this open-source Python framework

• F5-TTS: Non-autoregressive TTS using matching with diffusion transformer

• An efficient joint training model for monaural noisy-reverberant STT

• Parler-TTS: The best open-source text-to-speech library

• Live STT with Distil-Whisper and PyTorch

• Rev + ASR: An in-depth look