On-Device AI getting strong 👀 Updates from RingCentral, NVIDIA, Salesforce and much more 🔥

Top Updates 💪

• RingCentral teases native AI assistants for RingCX, unveils more solutions

• NVIDIA’s on-device small language model makes digital humans more lifelike

• Boost AI with Azure's new Phi model, streamlined RAG and generative models

• ElevenLabs’ text-to-speech app Reader is now available globally

• Elevate healthcare interaction with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Transcribe

• McAfee unleashes AI deepfake audio detector - but how reliable can it be?

• Microsoft: New realistic multilingual voices optimized for conversations

• No Jitter Midroll: Salesforce launches AI Agents for sales

• SleekFlow snaps up $7M to tap the conversational AI opportunity across Asia

• D-ID launches an AI video translation tool that has voice cloning and lip sync

Voice AI Podcast 🎙️

In case you missed the latest episode of Voice AI Podcast…

AI Agents lead to customer turnover, but... | John Robb (Head of Customer Success, Tenyx)

Noteworthy 💪

• GPT-4o Advanced Voice turned out to be even better than expected

• Scammers using AI to clone voices: How to protect yourself and your information

• How AI analytics can improve call centre performance

• AI summarization vs. manual note-taking: What could possibly go wrong?

• From Robo to Relatable: Make AI in customer service more human

• History and evolution of contact centers

• Harnessing Voice AI: Building authentic customer connections

• How to better understand the voice of the customer with Speech AI

• The evolution and impact of AI note takers on modern workflows

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Science and Demo Corner 😎

• How AI deciphers neural signals to help a man with ALS speak

• Meta's Research SuperCluster for real-time voice translation AI systems

• Restoring speaker voices with zero-shot cross-lingual voice transfer for TTS

• AI-Based Interactive Voice Response

• TrintAI: An open-source tool for STT, summarization and sentiment detection

• Semantic dependency and local convolution for enhancing naturalness in TTS

• AV-CPL: Continuous pseudo-labeling for audio-visual speech recognition

• Coherence-based phonemic analysis of reverberation effects on STT

• Quantification of STT system performance on d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing speech

• LLM-based speech recognition and translation models from Moore Threads

• Text-to-speech in Python: On-device solutions

• Adding speaker diarization to OpenAI Whisper using Picovoice Falcon