The Evolution of Voice AI

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Voice AI is working (NFX)

• AI voice agents are ready to take your call (The Wall Street Journal)

• Podcastle introduces Async: TTS API for developers (LinkedIn)

• Amazon’s AI voiceovers will talk you through product features (The Verge)

• Google Meet is getting real-time speech translation (TechCrunch)

• Gemini 2.5: Google’s most intelligent models are getting even better (Google Blog)

• Siro lands $50M to expand its AI-powered coaching for sales reps (TechCrunch)

• TTS market generate USD 12.5 billion by 2023 (openPR)

• Google brings NotebookLM to Android and iOS (TechStory)

• Cognigy becomes Microsoft Solutions Partner, bringing Agentic AI to Azure contact centers (TMCnet Blog)

• Smallest.ai unveils Lightning V2 - fastest, most human-like TTS (PR Newswire)

• Nintendo Switch 2 GameChat supports live subtitles and TTS (Wccftech)

• The return of on-premise: Why enterprise AI is leaving the cloud (Speechmatics)

• Acer AI TransBuds: Real-time translation earbuds (Trend Hunter)

• Augmented Hearing raises €3M in seed funding (FinSMEs)

• Jabra launches Engage AI Complete for call centers (CMSWire)

• Fireflies.ai throws down the AI notetaking gauntlet (WealthManagemen)

• Cyprus startup launches real-time voice AI coaching platform (Cyprus Mail)

• The impact of voice AI and speech analytics on contact centers (Customer Service Manager)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• The Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) 2025 challenge: audio-visual diarization and recognition (arXiv)

• How they designed a real-time meeting assistant (Medium)

• Automating call centers with AI agents: Achieving 700ms latency (Dev.to)

• Google Colab Script: Transcribe audio & generate summaries: A low-cost alternative (GitHub)

• Vexa: API for real-time meeting transcription (GitHub)

• From voice to text: Exploring STT tools and APIs for developers (Dev.to)

• How AI tells the difference between “ate” and “eight” in ASR (Dev.to)

• Building a local STT system with Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v2 (Towards AI)