Top Updates 💪
Deepgram launches Flux conversational speech recognition (Deepgram)
Alibaba triples down on speech, translation, multimodal AI (Slator)
Cisco unveils AI agents for Webex meetings (Computerworld)
Krisp announces Accent Conversion for Africa (Krisp Blog)
Microsoft introduces Microsoft Agent Framework (Azure Blog)
Hey Google, meet Gemini: The new voice of your smart home (The Verge)
Amazon unveils new Echo devices with Alexa+ built in (About Amazon)
Do voice translation earbuds actually work in the public? (ZDNet)
Neuphonic open sources speech-language model Neutts-AIR (MarkTechPost)
Liquid AI released audio foundation model LFM2 Audio 1.5B (MarkTechPost)
Agentic AI handles 38% of calls at Raleigh Orthopaedic (Healthcare IT News)
PolyAI agents sweeten interactions for Hello Sugar (DestinationCRM)
LinkedIn Recruiter’s former leaders launch Your360 AI (GlobeNewswire)
Abby Connect launches AI receptionist with Deepgram’s STT (BusinessWire)
Blazeo launches hybrid voice AI with automation & human agents (PR Newswire)
Why Voice AI is the new growth engine for enterprises (RTInsights)
Hyperfusion & Cambai launch multilingual voice AI platform for MENA (Zawya)
HunarAI launches India’s first self-serve voice AI solutions (Deccan Chronicle)
Verticalized Voice AI – The next application layer shift (Georgian)
AudioCodes unveils AI agents for improved customer engagement (Zacks)
Hume AI tests Octave 2 multilingual TTS model (TestingCatalog)
AI voice agents: Benefits and use cases (Marketing Insider Group)
3CLogic selected by Astreya to revolutionize IT managed services with voice AI and contact center solutions built for ServiceNow ITSM (PR Newswire)
Assort Health brings in $102M to build out voice AI platform (Fierce Healthcare)
Startup Alex raises $17M to automate job interviews (Next Unicorn Ventures)
AudioShake raises $14M to make audio editable (Axios)
SoundHound AI deploys conversational platform at Primary Health Solutions (Coverager)
Voice AI Podcast 🎙️
In case you missed the latest episode of Voice AI Podcast…
The Race to 300M AI Agents | David Yang (Co-Founder at Newo.ai)
In the Future of Voice AI series of interviews, I ask three questions to my guests: - What problems do you currently see in Enterprise Voice AI? - How does your company solve these problems? - What solutions do you envision in the next 5 years?
Engineering Corner 😎
A complete guide to benchmarking ASR systems (Medium)
Audio to text transcriber automated via Termux (DEV)
Tavus Sparrow-0 turn detection model demo (LinkedIn)
Pluely: A lightning-fast, privacy-first AI assistant (GitHub)
Smarter fine tuning for NLU and NLG tasks (HackerNoon)
Python SDK for Palabra AI’s real-time speech-to-speech translation API (PyPI)
AI-powered receptionist tool like Voicei AI: The future of smarter customer interactions (TechBullion)