Top Updates 💪
AI voice agents market to grow from $3.1B to $47.5B by 2034 (Unite.AI)
Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com (TechCrunch)
ElevenLabs launches Scribe v2 (X)
SoundHound AI unveils agentic voice commerce for vehicles & TVs (SoundHound)
Voice-to-voice translation app developed by NATO & UK military (UKAuthority)
Sentiment analysis with text and audio using AWS generative AI services (AWS)
Why OpenAI is betting big on the audio AI revolution (AI Magazine)
What voice AI means for support leaders right now (Forbes)
Mobvoi introduces TicNote Cloud and Shadow Agent 2.0 (PR Newswire)
How TomTom brings AI into the car (WebWire)
Voicegain acquires TrampolineAI for healthcare contact center AI (PRWeb)
Apple’s Siri gets major AI overhaul with LLMs in spring 2026 (WebProNews)
NYU professor deploys AI voice agents for exams against cheating (WebProNews)
EarFun unveils powerful live AI translation with new Air Pro 4+ and Clip 2 alongside new flagship Wave Pro X at CES 2026 (PR Newswire)
VoAgents launches enterprise voice AI platform (AiThority)
AI voice earbuds are redefining calls and dictation (SaveDelete)
These smart glasses stole the show at CES 2026 (PCMag)
Nagoya firm creates app to transcribe deaf users’ speech (The Asahi Shimbun)
Goertek showcases full-stack innovations in acoustics and sensing (PR Newswire)
Beauty retailer upgrades HR service with 3CLogic voice AI (PR Newswire)
Presto raises $10M in funding (Restaurant Dive)
Speechify rolls out new Snoop Dogg AI voice (EdTech Innovation Hub)
Subtle’s AI earbuds challenge AirPods with voice dictation (TechBuzz)
FaceOff unveils its 10th AI – synthetic audio detection (VARINDIA)
OpenAI pushes next-gen audio AI for voice-first devices (CXO Digital Pulse)
Sound Group Inc. launches SoundSphereAI, an innovative voice AI technology showcase platform (QuiverQuant)
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Engineering Corner 😎
Building voice agents with NVIDIA open models (Daily.co)
Pipecat cloud is now generally available (Daily.co)
Asterisk PBX transport for Pipecat (LinkedIn)
NVIDIA Broadcast app: AI-powered voice and video (NVIDIA)
LTX-2 creates synchronized video & audio from text prompts (X)
Liquid AI: 5 open-weight model instances from a single architecture (X)
AirSpeech: Lightweight speech synthesis framework for home intelligent space service robots (MDPI)
RFGETT-TTS: Robust fine-grained expressivity transfer with transformer for TTS synthesis (IEEE Xplore)
A review on Bangla TTS With human-like expressions (IEEE Xplore)
Cuneflow E-Ink notebook demo: multimodal pen + audio (YouTube)
VOCCI AI note-taking ring (YouTube)
Comparing STT algorithms for survey transcription (Oxford Academic)
Voice cloning defenses are easier to undo than expected (Help Net Security)
Mimo-audio enables few-shot learning for audio tasks (Quantum Zeitgeist)
How to build a voice agent with RAG and safety guardrails (NVIDIA)