Speech-to-Retrieval: a new approach to voice search

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Salesforce brings voice into the future of service (Salesforce)

• TTS software market expected to surpass $10B by 2031 (OpenPR)

• How CPaaS is driving workflow automation – UC roundtable (UC Today)

• Zendesk unveils major AI push (CX Today)

• ChatGPT testing ‘Speak First’ voice feature (Lapaas)

• Tata Communications launches Voice AI for real-time fintech chats (IT Brief)

• Rivian to replace Amazon’s Alexa with Google Gemini (Eletric-Vehicles)

• David AI raises $50 million to bring audio data to AI models (Bloomberg)

• Spara raises $15M to build Superhero AI agent for inbound sales (PYMNTS)

• Attuned Intelligence raises $13M to automate hospital call centers (HitConsultant)

• Voice AI developer Smallest.ai nabs $8M investment (SiliconANGLE)

• Focal raises $5M in funding (FinSMEs)

• Plaud launches platform to enhance conversational intelligence (PR Newswire)

• Ex-Meta & Google researcher in talks to raise $60M for voice AI startup (Forbes)

• NeuTTS Air: Open-source on-device TTS model (Quantum Zeitgeist)

• SoundHound’s Amelia 7 boosts Apivia Courtage’s customer service (Benzinga)

• Core AI launches VoicePix 2.0 to advance AI audio (GlobeNewswire)

• AI voice agents that transform your CRM workflows (TechBullion)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R): a new approach to voice search (Google Research)

• How to use OpenAI’s Whisper for perfect transcriptions (YouTube)

• ANC vs ENC noise cancellation: Pros & cons (SlashGear)

• Best TTS apps for iPhone (Technobezz)

• Beginner’s guide to AI audio: Making voice tech simple (inkl)

• Recreating a conversational format with Gemini’s multi-speaker TTS (Medium)

• How to evaluate voice agents in 2025 (MarkTechPost)

• Scaling multi-talker ASR with speaker-agnostic activity streams (arXiv)

• MeshAG - Distributed AI agent orchestrator (GitHub)

• Real-time smart speech assistant with Python, Whisper & LLMs (DEV)

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