Voice AI finally coming to Claude

Voice AI weekly digest

Top Updates 💪

• Claude's AI voice mode is finally rolling out - for free (ZDNet)

• Hume launches voice model EVI-3 with rapid custom voice creation (VentureBeat)

• ElevenLabs debuts Conversational AI 2.0 (VentureBeat)

• IndiaAI selects SoketAI, GnaniAI, and GanAI to build next-gen LLMs (The Bridge Chronical)

• AI models using AirPods audio may detect heart rate (AppleInsider)

• How real-time translation is and isn’t changing video conferencing (UC Today)

• Strong Tie boosts customer experience with Liberate's voice AI (PR Newswire)

• SoundHound and Allina launch AI agent for patient engagement (HIT Consultant)

• Modulate brings live voice fraud & harm detection to Twilio users (Modulate)

• ScotRail uses AI voice clone without speaker's consent (BBC)

• The limits to using Siri in healthcare (Paubox)

• Siro raises $50M Series B for AI Conversation Intelligence Platform (Pulse)

• Rime secures $5.5M in seed funding (Rime.ai)

• Invoca acquires Symbl, a Seattle startup that uses conversational AI (GeekWire)

• Blobfish AI enables voice AI training for call centers (Trend Hunter)

• Gemini TTS: The future of human-like audio content (Geeky Gadgets)

• Soundcore Liberty 5: revolutionizing voice-canceling with adaptive ANC 3.0 and Dolby Audio (Bastille Post)

• The power of audio-to-text technology (TechBullion)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Motivational speech synthesis (YouTube)

• SpeakStream: streaming text-to-speech with interleaved data (Apple Machine Learning Research)

• Speech translation from Darija to classical Arabic: Performance analysis of Whisper, SeamlessM4T, and S2T models (IEEE Xplore)

• mWhisper-Flamingo for multilingual audio-visual noise-robust speech recognition (IEEE Xplore)

• Overlap-adaptive hybrid speaker diarization and ASR-aware observation addition for MISP 2025 challenge (arXiv)

• Building a real-time audio transcription system with OpenAI’s realtime API (DZone)

• 200+ custom system prompts for voice-to-text post-processing (DEV Community)

• 10 TTS APIs that give voice to AI (Nordic APIs)

• Maximize your content's reach with CapCut's TTS technology (FinSMEs)

• TTS-o-matic: Local AI TTS tool for Unity (Unity Asset Store)

• Timekettle W4 Pro translation earbuds leave competitors behind (Yanko Design)