Top Updates 💪
Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound (Mistral AI)
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs raises $500 million (The Wall Street Journal)
AssemblyAI launches Universal-3 Pro optimized for voice AI (AssemblyAI)
Sarvam launches Sarvam Audio, claims to offer better accuracy than GPT-4o, Gemini 3 Flash (Business Today)
DeepL launches real-time voice translation API (CHOSUNBIZ)
Speechify expands beyond TTS with Voice AI Assistant, voice typing, and AI workspace (MarTech Series)
Samsung confirms smart glasses launch in 2026 (TechStory)
Audio AI tools market is booming worldwide (openPR)
How voice AI went from taking notes to running drive-thrus (Forbes)
Google to evaluate conversational AI in virtual care (Becker’s Hospital Review)
8x8 reports surge in AI-powered CX adoption & unveils new tools (ITBrief)
PDFgear launches free TextaVoice TTS (Morningstar)
Whispp shows real-time on-device voice AI for whisper-to-speech (Telecompaper)
AudioCodes expands its voice solution portfolio for Webex Calling (PR Newswire)
How ReSpeaker brings voice AI into real-world scenarios (Seeed Studio)
YouTube expands AI auto-dubbing to 27 languages (Gulf News)
Why the telephony stack is the real bottleneck in voice AI QA (BetaNews)
Redefining excellence for AI agents in the contact center (Microsoft)
Pindrop and NICE add deepfake detection to CXone (CX Today)
Linq raises $20M to power AI agents in text messaging & voice (The Fast Mode)
Engineering Corner 😎
Cartesia Sonic 3 TTS model is available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart (AWS)
WAXAL: A new open dataset for African speech technology (Google Blog)
PaceCoach: Real-time speaking pace monitoring iOS app (PaceCoach)
They build a free voice-to-text tool that supports 55+ languages published (DEV)
Set up voice AI for scheduling appointments with Calendly using Twilio (DEV)
Discord2sum — meeting minutes for Discord voice (DEV)
DeVoice: Convert any sound or video into precise text (Devoice)
A free desktop app for real-time transcription & translation (DEV)
Apple’s breakthrough in AI speech synthesis: How sound clustering could revolutionize voice generation (WebProNews)
Children’s Speech Recognition in Slovak (IEEE Xplore)
AI-powered ESP32 TTS for DIY voice devices (Hackster.io)
Paza: ASR benchmarks & models for low-resource languages (Microsoft Research)
FineVoice TTS enhances audio content with AI precision (FindArticles)
This simple setting changed how they used ChatGPT (TechRadar)