Top Updates πͺ
ElevenLabs launches new platform to simplify building Conversational AI agents
HubSpot to acquire Frame AI to boost CRM capabilities
Hume launches Voice Control for creating custom AI voices
Twilio launched ConversationRelay: Effortless Voice AI, Made Human
Krisp extends partnership with Five9 to deliver live AI speech interpretation
Discover enterprise communication with RingCentral's innovative platform
Uniphore acquires ActionIQ: takes a βZero Dataβ approach to Conversational AI
UNICEF and ATscale launch Nepali TTS voice "Dina" for visually impaired users
Fish Speech unveils self-hosted, low latency TTS with 1M hours of training data
Torchyβs Tacos debuts SoundHoundβs Voice AI phone ordering across all locations
Amazon tries to help Alexa get personal
HappyRobot raises $15.6M in Series A funding
Voice AI Podcast ποΈ
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Noteworthy πͺ
The communications battle for accessible, accurate live captions: humans vs AI
Google Recorder may add a "Clear Voice" feature to remove background noise
Improving acoustic and bone conduction speech enhancement
The future of Spanish TTS: Adding emotion for realistic voices
Over half of brands require multilingual voiceovers, Voices' report reveals
Legal considerations in Canada related to βVoice Cloningβ
MacWhisper 11 brings a friendly redesign to its AI-powered transcription app
How audio AI technology helps people hear clearly
Latest Android feature drop upgrades speech to text, images to words, more
Science and Demo Corner π
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people
Using multichannel and speaker diarization
Resource-efficient adaptation of speech foundation models for multi-speaker ASR
Lokas : Record and transcribe your meetings in complete confidentiality
Visatronic: A unified multimodal transformer for Video-text-to-speech synthesis
Voice Harbor by Nijta: Anonymise your audio data in seconds
Read to me: Turn any PDF into an audiobook
Mozilla unveils free AI Voice training data in 180 languages