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    Underdog releases Woof, a 40.6 MB text-to-speech model that runs on one CPU thread

    Underdog · Product Launch

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    Piotr Żaczek

    Founder · Calloptima

    Meet Piotr Żaczek, Founder at Calloptima, who joined the BotCast #15 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm Piotr. I'm building AI agents and voice agents for enterprise, especially for larger scale. And I've been doing it…

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    Boson AI announces Higgs Realtime Duplex, a 45B full-duplex omni model

    Boson AI · Product Launch

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    Soniox launches STT v6 with agent text input and echo cancellation

    Soniox · Product Launch

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    Midam Kim

    ML Engineer · ServiceNow

    Meet Midam Kim, ML Engineer at ServiceNow, who joined the BotCast #14 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? My name is Midam Kim. I'm an ML engineer at ServiceNow. I'm a lifelong lover and learner of speech and speech AI.…

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    Edge0 open-sources Audio8 on-device speech models and a 35B LLM it says runs in 3 GB

    Edge0 · Product Launch

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    Gradium open-sources Phonon, on-device text-to-speech models

    Gradium · Product Launch

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    Vapi vs Retell vs LiveKit vs Pipecat (2026): Costs Compared

    Voice AI Space · Other

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    Block launches Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on audio

    Block · Product Launch

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    Ricardo Herreros Symons

    Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer · Speechmatics

    Meet Ricardo Herreros Symons, Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer at Speechmatics, who joined the BotCast #13 to answer our usual questions on building…

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    How Voice AI Works: A Complete Guide in 22 Short Videos (2026)

    Voice AI Space · Research / Report

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    IBM open-sources Granite Speech 5.0, a 2B speech-to-text model

    IBM · Product Launch

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    James Zammit

    Co-Founder and CEO · Roark

    Meet James Zammit, Co-Founder and CEO at Roark, who joined the BotCast #12 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm…

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    Leading voice AI agents hear the warning sign, then follow the words anyway

    VoxParity · Research / Report

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    Tom Waszkowycz

    Co-Founder and CTO · Inkling

    Meet Tom Waszkowycz, Co-Founder and CTO at Inkling, who joined the BotCast #11 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? Hi,…

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    Voice AI Startup Programs: Credits and Grants You Can Apply For (September 2026)

    Voice AI Space · Research / Report

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    Ben (Simiao) Ren, Ph.D.

    Co-Founder · scam.ai

    Meet Ben Ren, Co-Founder at scam.ai, who joined the BotCast #10 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? Hi everyone, my name…

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    Katrin Tomanek & Alex Kauffmann

    Squeezlabs

    Meet Katrin Tomanek and Alex Kauffmann, Co-founders at Squeezlabs, who joined the BotCast #9 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who…

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    Haithem Kchaou

    Co-Founder and CEO · Callab AI | YC P26

    Meet Haithem Kchaou, Co-Founder CEO at Callab AI | YC P26, who joined the BotCast #8 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you?…

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    Rob Pickering

    Founder · Aplisay

    Meet Rob Pickering, Founder at Aplisay, who joined the BotCast #7 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? My name's Rob…

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    John George

    CTO · CaseGen.ai

    Meet John George, CTO at CaseGen.ai, who joined the BotCast # 6 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm John George, CTO…

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    Thomas Kluiters

    Co-Founder and Head of AI · Reson8

    Meet Thomas Kluiters, Co-founder and Head of AI at Reson8, who joined the BotCast #5 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you?…

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    The Voice AI Day #1

    Voice AI Space · Other

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    John Kelvie

    CEO and Co-Founder · Bespoken AI

    Meet John Kelvie, CEO and co-founder at Bespoken AI, who joined the BotCast #4 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm…

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    Laurent Mazare

    Co-CTO · Gradium.AI

    Meet Laurent Mazare, co-CTO at Gradium.AI, who joined the BotCast #3 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? My name is…

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    Soniox launches TTS v2, one model for narration, creative work and voice agents in 60+ languages

    Soniox · Product Launch

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    Alex Bordanova

    Chief Product and Technology Officer · Voicemod

    Meet Alex Bordanova, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Voicemod, who joined the BotCast #2 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI.…

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    Zac Zuo

    Co-Founder · Flowtica

    Meet Zac, co-founder at Flowtica, who joined the BotCast #1 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm Zac, the co-founder…

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    Florent de Goriainoff

    CEO · fluents

    Florent’s journey into voice was not exactly planned. He worked in telecoms, software, data, and cloud infrastructure before realizing that voice AI…

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    Neuphonic launch NeuTTS-2E a controllable Emotional Speech in a 125M-Parameter On-Device Model

    Neuphonic · Product Launch

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    Gradium Launches Translate for Real-Time Speech-to-Text and Speech-to-Speech Translation

    Gradium · Product Launch

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    Soniox v5 Real-Time follows a live conversation, not just the words

    Soniox · Product Launch

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    Davut Akça

    Founder · Voxis (voxislive.com)

    Watching a foreign film, playing a game, sitting on a call with someone who doesn't speak your language, and there it is again: that bar of text at the…

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    ai-coustics launches Tyto to identify audio issues before they impact voice agents

    ai-coustics · Product Launch

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    Sardor Davlatov

    CEO · NavAI

    A few years back, Sardor Davlatov called the DMV to book an appointment for a friend. The agent on the line sounded completely human, smooth, natural, no…

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    Lex Goetz

    CEO · Overmind.one

    Five years ago, while everyone else was building chatty bots, Lex Goetz was chasing a different idea: talk to your product, talk to your data. Not voice…

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    Far-Field ASR Leaderboard: Treble and Hugging Face Launch FFASR

    Treble · Product Launch

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    The Voice AI investors List

    Voice AI Space · Feature Update

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    Mohamed Hani ElMasry

    Founder and CEO · SentiVue

    The phone call is where the most important conversations still happen, and for people who don't share a language, it has barely changed in decades. Text…

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    Coco Shellim

    Founder and CEO · Sound AiSleep

    Living abroad and missing bedtime with her niece and nephew, Coco Shellim started recording herself reading stories and sending them over as voice notes.…

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    Bradley Metrock

    CEO · Voice Project

    “I’m not an engineer. I’m just a guy who got curious." That's how Bradley Metrock introduces himself, and it might be the most honest opening line in…

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    Sylvain Boily

    Founder · RoomKit

    Sylvain Boily's voice story starts in a basement in Puteaux in 2004, building an open-source PBX with two friends. Twenty years in telecom followed, and…

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    Akshat (Ack) Prakash

    CTO and Co-Founder · Camb.ai

    Some founders land in voice through an annoyance. Akshat Prakash's path was a straight line: AI at Carnegie Mellon, inspired by the speech research coming…

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