Meta brings Voice Mode, NotebookLM adds 50 languages, Qwen drops Omni 3B, and more

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Meta's new AI app delivers a chatbot with a social media twist (ZDNet)

• Google NotebookLM launches audio overviews in 50+ languages (MarkTechPost)

• AI voice cloning scams mimic loved ones in fake calls (NBC Washington)

• Qwen dropped Qwen Omni 3B - End to End speech to speech model (X)

• How Apple uses AI to make Siri sound more human (Techloy)

• Limbic launches voice AI agent to help behavioral health orgs (Fierce Healthcare)

• How AI is revolutionizing spatial audio (Nokia)

• Zocdoc launches an AI phone assistant Zo by Zocdoc (PR Newswire)

• Synchronizing voice and digital in conversational AI NLX (No Jitter)

• Agentic AI fraud detection — Why It’s the future of enterprise security (Pindrop)

• Cedar announces agentic AI for healthcare billing (Healthcare Finance News)

• 3CLogic launches voice AI hub for virtual agents (PR Newswire)

• Relatient launches Dash Voice AI agent (Smart Customer Service)

• AudioCodes introduces Meeting Insights On-Prem (PR Newswire)

• How agentic AI is redefining voice conversations (Call Centre Helper)

• Commure's Ambient Suite achieves Epic Toolbox designation (The Manila Times)

• Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses now record your voice by default (The Decoder)

• CNTXT AI launches Munsit: The most accurate Arabic ASR system (Unite.AI)

• Parloa: Interview with co-founder & CEO Malte Kosub (Pulse 2.0)

• Solda.AI raises $4 million in seed funding (Retail Technology Innovation Hub)

• Stimuler raises $3.75 million in pre-series A funding (FinSMEs)

• Dex raises $3.1 million in pre-seed funding (FinSMEs)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• iPhone AI voice assistants: Here’s the best one (9to5Mac)

• Get started with Hume AI — how to set up voices and talk naturally (Tom's Guide)

• Researchers say new algorithm could help hearing aid users (ScienceDaily)

• Building a scalable and accurate audio interview transcription pipeline with Google Gemini (Towards Data Science)

• Kimi-Audio: an open-source audio foundation model excelling in audio understanding, generation, and conversation (GitHub)

• The WAVLab team releases VERSA: a comprehensive and versatile evaluation toolkit for assessing speech, audio, and music signals (MarkTechPost)

• Voicemod voice changer: everything you need to know (Play.ht)

• How to remove dog barking sound from audio (Play.ht)

• Meetily: AI meeting assistant - revolutionizing collaboration (DEV Community)

• Keilini TalkEase earbuds translator reviews 2025 (InMyBowl)