x.ai launched Grok voice agent API, Meta launched SAM, and more this week!

Voice AI weekly digest

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Top Updates 💪

• x.ai launched Grok voice agent API (xAI)

• Meta launched SAM Audio: The First Unified Multimodal Model for Audio Separation (Meta Blog)

• Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed (Google Blog)

• Meta’s AI glasses can now help you hear conversations better (TechCrunch)

• Chatterbox Turbo: Model that beats ElevenLabs Turbo & Cartesia Sonic 3 (X)

• OpenAI releases new models for its realtime API (The Decoder)

• Leading the conversation with conversational AI in Amazon Connect (AWS)

• Krisp Accent Conversion SDK for desktop, mobile and server platforms (SpeechTechMag)

• Emotii to debut agentic multilingual communication platform (PRWeb)

• Speechmatics Startup Program targets robust speech recognition (LinkedIn)

• PolyAI raises $86 million as fight to answer calls with AI heats up (Forbes)

• AI sound generator startup Mirelo grabs $41M seed round (Tech.eu)

• CoeFont launches AI-powered interpreter (GlobeNewswire)

• Voximplant and Deepgram bring voice AI to real-world calls (GlobeNewswire)

• AI transcription is rewriting journalism and media workflows (Telecom Reseller)

• Retell AI targets human bottlenecks in agentic voice AI (SiliconANGLE)

• Voice Convert AI: Turn every inquiry into real sales opportunities (TechBullion)

• Vonage expands contact center with Salesforce Agentforce voice (MarTechSeries)

• NVIDIA Nemotron 3: Hybrid Mamba-Transformer open source models (Smol.ai)

• Synthetic voice attacks cost insurers and consumers billions (Insurify)

• Elevenlabs launches Lovable integration (Blockchain.News)

• The state of customer experience: What 2025 has taught (CXM Today)

• AudioCodes deploys Voca CIC voice agent with Atento (PR Newswire)

• Resemble AI raises $13 million to tackle deepfake crisis (PYMNTS)

• Gnani.ai launches Indic STT model under IndiaAI Mission (Inc42)

• Voice Agent: Conversational AI for calls, platforms & tech (Technology.org)

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Engineering Corner 😎

• Tongyi FUN levels up with major TTS and STT upgrades (X)

  

• POLYN’s ultra-low-power AI voice detection chips (TrendHunter)

• 7 best AI voice typing and speech-to-text tools (Unite.AI)

• Advances in singing voice synthesis (QuantumZeitgeist)

• Adapt tone to user sentiment in voice AI and integrate calendar checks (DEV)

• Source separation for ASR: How machines learn to untangle mixed audio (DEV)

• Automatic speech recognition in a noisy world (DEV)

• Reproducing and dissecting denoising language models for ASR (arXiv)

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