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Everything happening in voice AI — news, announcements, and the people building it.
ArticleUnderdog releases Woof, a 40.6 MB text-to-speech model that runs on one CPU thread
Underdog · Product Launch
ConversationPiotr 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…
ArticleBoson AI announces Higgs Realtime Duplex, a 45B full-duplex omni model
Boson AI · Product Launch
ArticleSoniox launches STT v6 with agent text input and echo cancellation
Soniox · Product Launch
ConversationMidam 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.…
ArticleEdge0 open-sources Audio8 on-device speech models and a 35B LLM it says runs in 3 GB
Edge0 · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 43, Oct 19-25, 2026
ArticleGradium open-sources Phonon, on-device text-to-speech models
Gradium · Product Launch
ArticleVapi vs Retell vs LiveKit vs Pipecat (2026): Costs Compared
Voice AI Space · Other
ArticleBlock launches Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on audio
Block · Product Launch
ConversationRicardo 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…
ArticleHow Voice AI Works: A Complete Guide in 22 Short Videos (2026)
Voice AI Space · Research / Report
ArticleIBM open-sources Granite Speech 5.0, a 2B speech-to-text model
IBM · Product Launch
ConversationJames 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…
Voice AI News - Week 41, Oct 5-11, 2026
ArticleLeading voice AI agents hear the warning sign, then follow the words anyway
VoxParity · Research / Report
Voice AI News - Week 42, Oct 12-18, 2026
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,…
Voice AI News - Week 40, Sep 28-Oct 4, 2026
ArticleVoice AI Startup Programs: Credits and Grants You Can Apply For (September 2026)
Voice AI Space · Research / Report
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…
Voice AI News - Week 39, Sep 21-27, 2026
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…
Voice AI News - Week 38, Sep 14-20, 2026
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?…
Voice AI News - Week 37, Sep 7-13, 2026
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…
Voice AI News - Week 36, Aug 31-Sep 6, 2026
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…
Voice AI News - Week 35, Aug 24-30, 2026
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?…
ArticleThe Voice AI Day #1
Voice AI Space · Other
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…
Voice AI News - Week 34, Aug 17-22, 2026
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…
ArticleSoniox launches TTS v2, one model for narration, creative work and voice agents in 60+ languages
Soniox · Product Launch
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.…
Voice AI News - Week 33, Aug 10-17, 2026
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…
Voice AI News - Week 32, Aug 3-9, 2026
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…
Voice AI News - Week 31, Jul 27-Aug 3, 2026
ArticleNeuphonic launch NeuTTS-2E a controllable Emotional Speech in a 125M-Parameter On-Device Model
Neuphonic · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 30, Jul 20-27, 2026
Voice AI News - Week 29, Jul 14-20, 2026
ArticleGradium Launches Translate for Real-Time Speech-to-Text and Speech-to-Speech Translation
Gradium · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 28, Jul 6-13, 2026
ArticleSoniox v5 Real-Time follows a live conversation, not just the words
Soniox · Product Launch
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…
Articleai-coustics launches Tyto to identify audio issues before they impact voice agents
ai-coustics · Product Launch
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…
Voice AI News - Week 27, Jun 29-Jul 6, 2026
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…
ArticleFar-Field ASR Leaderboard: Treble and Hugging Face Launch FFASR
Treble · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 26, Jun 22-29, 2026
ArticleThe Voice AI investors List
Voice AI Space · Feature Update
Voice AI News - Week 25, Jun 15-22, 2026
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…
Voice AI News - Week 24, Jun 8-14, 2026
Voice AI News - Week 22, May 25-31, 2026
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.…
Voice AI News - Week 21, May 18-24, 2026
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…
Voice AI News - Week 20, May 11-17, 2026
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…
Voice AI News - Week 19, May 3-10, 2026
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…

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

Piotr Żaczek
Founder · Calloptima

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

Soniox launches STT v6 with agent text input and echo cancellation
Soniox · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 44, Oct 26-Nov 1, 2026

Midam Kim
ML Engineer · ServiceNow

Edge0 open-sources Audio8 on-device speech models and a 35B LLM it says runs in 3 GB
Edge0 · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 43, Oct 19-25, 2026

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

Vapi vs Retell vs LiveKit vs Pipecat (2026): Costs Compared
Voice AI Space · Other

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

Ricardo Herreros Symons
Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer · Speechmatics

How Voice AI Works: A Complete Guide in 22 Short Videos (2026)
Voice AI Space · Research / Report

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

James Zammit
Co-Founder and CEO · Roark
Voice AI News - Week 41, Oct 5-11, 2026

Leading voice AI agents hear the warning sign, then follow the words anyway
VoxParity · Research / Report
Voice AI News - Week 42, Oct 12-18, 2026
Tom Waszkowycz
Co-Founder and CTO · Inkling
Voice AI News - Week 40, Sep 28-Oct 4, 2026

Voice AI Startup Programs: Credits and Grants You Can Apply For (September 2026)
Voice AI Space · Research / Report
Ben (Simiao) Ren, Ph.D.
Co-Founder · scam.ai
Voice AI News - Week 39, Sep 21-27, 2026
Katrin Tomanek & Alex Kauffmann
Squeezlabs
Voice AI News - Week 38, Sep 14-20, 2026
Haithem Kchaou
Co-Founder and CEO · Callab AI | YC P26
Voice AI News - Week 37, Sep 7-13, 2026
Rob Pickering
Founder · Aplisay
Voice AI News - Week 36, Aug 31-Sep 6, 2026
John George
CTO · CaseGen.ai
Voice AI News - Week 35, Aug 24-30, 2026
Thomas Kluiters
Co-Founder and Head of AI · Reson8

The Voice AI Day #1
Voice AI Space · Other
John Kelvie
CEO and Co-Founder · Bespoken AI
Voice AI News - Week 34, Aug 17-22, 2026
Laurent Mazare
Co-CTO · Gradium.AI

Soniox launches TTS v2, one model for narration, creative work and voice agents in 60+ languages
Soniox · Product Launch
Alex Bordanova
Chief Product and Technology Officer · Voicemod
Voice AI News - Week 33, Aug 10-17, 2026
Zac Zuo
Co-Founder · Flowtica
Voice AI News - Week 32, Aug 3-9, 2026
Florent de Goriainoff
CEO · fluents
Voice AI News - Week 31, Jul 27-Aug 3, 2026

Neuphonic launch NeuTTS-2E a controllable Emotional Speech in a 125M-Parameter On-Device Model
Neuphonic · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 30, Jul 20-27, 2026
Voice AI News - Week 29, Jul 14-20, 2026

Gradium Launches Translate for Real-Time Speech-to-Text and Speech-to-Speech Translation
Gradium · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 28, Jul 6-13, 2026

Soniox v5 Real-Time follows a live conversation, not just the words
Soniox · Product Launch
Davut Akça
Founder · Voxis (voxislive.com)

ai-coustics launches Tyto to identify audio issues before they impact voice agents
ai-coustics · Product Launch
Sardor Davlatov
CEO · NavAI
Voice AI News - Week 27, Jun 29-Jul 6, 2026
Lex Goetz
CEO · Overmind.one

Far-Field ASR Leaderboard: Treble and Hugging Face Launch FFASR
Treble · Product Launch
Voice AI News - Week 26, Jun 22-29, 2026

The Voice AI investors List
Voice AI Space · Feature Update
Voice AI News - Week 25, Jun 15-22, 2026
Mohamed Hani ElMasry
Founder and CEO · SentiVue
Voice AI News - Week 24, Jun 8-14, 2026
Voice AI News - Week 22, May 25-31, 2026
Coco Shellim
Founder and CEO · Sound AiSleep
Voice AI News - Week 21, May 18-24, 2026
Bradley Metrock
CEO · Voice Project
Voice AI News - Week 20, May 11-17, 2026
Sylvain Boily
Founder · RoomKit
Voice AI News - Week 19, May 3-10, 2026
Akshat (Ack) Prakash
CTO and Co-Founder · Camb.ai