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Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• ElevenLabs releases a stand‑alone voice‑generation app (TechCrunch)

• Retell AI makes customizable, code-free voice agents with GPT-4o (OpenAI)

• Meta in talks to acquire voice-cloning startup PlayAI (TechCrunch)

• NewDay builds a customer service agent assist with over 90 % accuracy (AWS)

• The rise of voice productivity with Krisp CEO Davit Baghdasaryan (Slator)

• Elon Musk confirms Tesla Optimus V3 uses Grok voice AI (Teslarati)

• Careington adopts Cognigy’s voice AI solution for customer service (PR Newswire)

• Krisp has been named a finalist in CX Today's 2025 CX Awards for best use of AI

• Amplify launches speech recognition for voice-enabled learning (PR Newswire)

• SignalWire launches full‑stack SDK for voice AI (Business Wire)

• Clearspeed raises $60M for voice-based risk assessment (SiliconANGLE)

• Wispr Flow raises $30M for its AI‑powered dictation app (TechCrunch)

• SuperDial picks up $15 M series A to automate insurance calls (Fierce Healthcare)

• Google launches Gemma 3n, multimodal AI model that runs offline (Techlusive)

• Pindrop collaboration reins in NVIDIA zero‑shot voice cloning (BiometricUpdate)

• LLVision launches Leion Hey2 AR translation glasses in Seoul (GlobeNewswire)

• Cognizant and Google Cloud debut new way to support customers (KMworld)

• $20m boost for Synthflow’s enterprise voice ai (Call Centre Helper)

• Decagon raises $131 million at $1.5 b valuation (MartechCube)

• AI startup Caantin in talks for $4 million seed round (TechCabal)

• KPN & ElevenLabs partnership brings Voice AI to the Netherlands (TelecomTV)

• The first Arabic Voice AI that understands every dialect (Zawya)

• Voice AI becomes a moneymaker (Destination CRM)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Pseudo labels‑based neural speech enhancement for the AVSR task in the MISP‑Meeting challenge (arXiv)

• Composite audio steganography based on text and speech synthesis (IEEE Xplore)

• Swiss researchers adapt voice cloning to Swiss German dialects (Slator)

• What is Voice AI and how does it work? (DZone)

• Rapid UI prototyping with Python Streamlit for audio transcription (DEV)

• WWDC 2025: The next evolution of STT using SpeechAnalyzer (DEV)

• Docling unlocks automatic speech recognition power (DEV)

• Best AI note-takers in 2025 (Tapscape)

• Claude Code & ElevenLabs AI Voice Agent (Geeky Gadgets)

• Howard and Google team up to advance AI speech recognition for African American English (NewsOne)