Tag: voice AI
Underdog shrinks a voice engine to 32MB inside a browser game
A 31-million-parameter voice model runs offline in a retro room where a typewriter reads back whatever you write.
Granola adds dictation and meets Wispr in the middle
The meeting notetaker now types across any Mac app for free, months after Wispr's dictation tool added meeting…
Deepgram buys Daily to keep Pipecat outside its own walls
The speech company is absorbing the maintainer of the most widely used open framework for stitching voice agents…
Google puts Gemini in the car as Mistral rebuilds voice
Three launches in one week push assistants from text boxes into dashboards, calls and speech-to-speech pipelines.
Mistral bundles listening, thinking and speaking into one voice stack
Voxtral 3 pairs transcription and speech synthesis with a LiveKit-based agent SDK, priced per minute and runnable on…
Grok Voice 3.0 tops a speech benchmark ahead of OpenAI
SpaceXSI's new voice model leads on naturalness while costing less per call task than its closest rivals.
Microsoft’s streaming speech model transcribes while you talk
Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a real-time speech model it says tops Artificial Analysis accuracy while returning draft text in…
Alibaba’s Qwen adds a full-duplex voice stack for agents
The realtime model decides whether to listen, speak or wait, and ships only through a managed API.
ElevenLabs rebuilds its voice stack around a faster v4 model
The new speech family adds directional control, longer productions and a 150 millisecond voice agent tier.
Modulate banks $25M to listen in on AI voice calls
The Boston startup runs more than a hundred small models to judge tone, intent and whether a caller…
Google splits synthetic voice into two Gemini TTS tiers
Developers can now direct delivery line by line, clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio, or pick…
Voice startup ElevenLabs reaches a reported $22B valuation
The four-year-old company says it is pacing at $600M in annual recurring revenue, mostly by answering the phone.