Voice AI reaches human parity 👀 Updates from Microsoft, Krisp, Sybrid and more 🔥
Microsoft AI can now clone voices to sound perfectly ‘human’ in seconds
Top Updates 💪
Customers reject AI for customer service, still crave a human touch
ConverseNow acquires Drive-Thru Voice AI specialist Valyant AI
Krisp to provide AI Noise Cancellation to Aarista Technologies
Samsung to launch upgraded voice assistant Bixby this year with its own AI
New Text-to-speech feature launches in OpenAI Playground
Teams Rooms meeting add speaker recognition and Copilot
Capacity deepens voice and contact center capabilities with two acquisitions
SpeechGen.io revolutionizes audio content creation with multi-voice AI TTS
Sybrid launched AudioSense report: Revolutionizing call center QA
Nagish raises $11M to bring independence to those with hearing impairments
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AssemblyAI enhances speech AI capabilities with LLM integrations
Amelia is bringing its GenAI solutions to the Las Vegas Strip
AI Drive-Thru hits a speed bump: McDonald's pauses voice ordering tech
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Science and Demo Corner 😎
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ZeroNLG: Zero-shot multimodal and multilingual natural language generation
Audioscribe: Free and open-source AI to turn voice into structured notes
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