MIT OpenVoice v2 voice cloning is out 🔥 Updates from Invoca, Parloa, AIPhone, Vonage 🔥

MIT releases OpenVoice V2: Multi-language voice cloning

Top Updates 💪

• Parloa, a conversational AI platform for customer service, raises $66M

• Invoca acquires DialogTech for $100M to expand its conversational intelligence tools

• AI Phone's live call translate tops Samsung S24 with 91 languages and dialects

• Vonage elevates cloud communications with Krisp’s noise cancellation

• Tenyx and Deepgram join forces to deliver industry-leading Conversational AI

Noteworthy 💪

• The potential of voice and video in conversational AI: Trends and opportunities

• AI drives new speech technology trends and use cases

• Whisper model or Azure AI Speech models

• Unleash the power of Krisp AI: Elevating your voice and meetings

• Next-gen customer service: Azure AI for speech, translation, summarization

• IVR analytics: Metrics that say your IVR system is working

• Audio deepfakes and AI tricks threaten elections around the world

• Speak, don’t type: Exploring voice interaction with LLMs

• Revolutionizing restaurant operations: The role of AI-powered phone assistants

• Rise of conversational AI and voice analytics

• DeFake tool protects voice recordings from cybercriminals

• New AI-based translation tools make their way into everyday life in Korea

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Science and Demo Corner 😎

• Live meeting assistant with Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Bedrock

• NaturalSpeech 3: Zero-shot TTS with factorized codec and diffusion models

• FlashSpeech: A Novel Speech Generation System that Significantly Reduces Computational Costs while Maintaining High-Quality Speech Output

• Talk2Note uses AI to effortlessly transform thoughts to text

• Fast Conformer with linearly scalable attention for efficient speech recognition

• Crossmixed convolutional neural network for digital speech recognition

• Speech-to-text conversion using GenAI stack

• Improving speech recognition on augmented reality glasses with hybrid datasets