Voice AI News — Jul 27 – Aug 3, 2026
Explore the latest voice AI news as Yelp launches an AI phone assistant, Smallest.ai secures $13M in funding, and new developer tools emerge from ElevenLabs.
Yelp Introduces New AI Phone Assistant
Yelp has expanded its platform capabilities by adding an AI-powered phone assistant to help users.
Voice AI Platform Simulates Realistic Interviews
Researchers proposed an AI-driven real-time voice-based interview platform that uses speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies to enable natural conversational practice.
Telugu Voice Assistant Aids Rural Farmers
A newly proposed intelligent farming assistant utilizes speech recognition to allow rural farmers to communicate naturally and receive crop recommendations in Telugu. (, )
Deepfake Audio Detection Framework Achieves High Accuracy
A new study leverages pretrained YAMNet embeddings and deep neural networks to classify deepfake audio attacks with up to 99.24% accuracy.
Generative Framework Reconstructs Folk Music Vocals
Researchers proposed the Authenticity-Constrained Generative Framework to balance historical accuracy and creative flexibility in AI-generated vocal reconstructions of cultural heritage. (, )
Indonesian Copyright Law Reviews Voice Cloning
A legal study analyzed the criminal implications of unauthorized commercial voice cloning under Article 113 of Law Number 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright.
Sign Language Translation App Integrates Speech
A new real-time translation application uses MediaPipe hand geometry and text-to-speech technology to convert Indonesian sign language into stable audio output. (, )
Speech Recognition Diagnoses Language Learner Intelligibility
A study of Turkish EFL learners utilized automatic speech recognition as a diagnostic tool to analyze word-level pronunciation errors and intelligibility rates.
Google Speech Commands Dataset Receives Extension
Researchers reconstructed and validated state-of-the-art keyword-spotting models using the original Google Speech Commands dataset alongside a newly developed extension from Wrocław University of Science and Technology.
Microwave Photonic Radar Enables Speech Recognition
A newly proposed broadband tunable microwave photonic radar system detects subtle skin displacements to simultaneously monitor vital signs and perform high-precision speech recognition.
Cross-Modal Fusion Enables Real-Time Emotion Detection
A reliability-aware gated cross-modal fusion framework was developed to achieve real-time audio-visual emotion recognition using facial expressions and speech cues.
Auditory Rehabilitation Framework Integrates Whisper ASR
The proposed Beyond Hearing framework combines OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition with visual tracking to support self-directed auditory rehabilitation.
Voice Commands Drive Real-Time VR Creation
The "One Word, One World" system integrates speech recognition with generative AI to allow users to initiate and manipulate 3D assets in collaborative virtual environments.
Voice Recognition Powers Smart Home Automation
A newly designed home automation system uses an Android application to convert voice commands into text, enabling elderly and disabled individuals to control household appliances via Bluetooth.
Neural Speech Synthesis Enhances Student Audiobooks
A systematic review explored the adoption of AI-enhanced audiobook systems featuring neural text-to-speech synthesis to support inclusive learning for differently-abled university students in Sri Lanka.
Unified Framework Improves Multi-Speaker Conversation Analysis
A new research project aims to develop a robust system that combines speech recognition, speaker diarization, and topic segmentation to better understand complex, overlapping conversations.
Semantic Communication Optimizes Real-Time VoIP Systems
Researchers developed a dynamic semantic prioritization and real-time voice reconstruction framework to prevent perceptual degradation in latency-sensitive 6G VoIP services. (, )
Closed-Loop Controller Optimizes AI Voice Calling
A new study proposes a receding-horizon integer-programming controller to dynamically allocate outbound calls and reduce customer hold times in conversational AI voice-calling systems.
Tether Evo Decodes Brain Activity Into Speech
Researchers demonstrated a single model trained with an alignment technique that can generalize speech decoding across different people for brain-computer interfaces.
Smallest.ai Raises Thirteen Million For Voice AI
The startup secured funding to develop a small, specialized voice model designed to mimic human conversation by listening, thinking, and speaking simultaneously.
PolyAI Releases Audio Native Dialog Model
The company launched Dialog-RSN-1, a model that processes raw audio without automatic speech recognition to achieve sub-300 ms response latency.
Telugu Speech Recognition Models Evaluated in Study
Researchers investigated the effectiveness of pre-trained Wav2Vec XLSR-53 and Whisper-Small models for automatic speech recognition in the Telugu language.
Acoustic Similarities Impact Speech Emotion Recognition
A new study explores how cross-linguistic acoustic-phonetic similarities affect multilingual speech emotion recognition across languages like Bangla, Hindi, Odia, English, and German.
Bilingual Clinical Language Processing Framework Developed
Researchers created a patient-focused healthcare system combining speech-to-text and text-to-speech modules for English-Yoruba translation.
Real Time Speech Translation System Built
A new system utilizes Whisper-Speech-to-Text and MMS-Text-to-Speech APIs alongside voice activity detection to translate spoken language into English speech. (, )
Speech To Text Conversion Techniques Reviewed
A review paper evaluates traditional and deep learning approaches used to convert spoken language into written text.
Paralinguistic Information Flow in Adapters Diagnosed
Researchers tested whether frozen speech-to-LLM adapters preserve sentence stress beyond transcripts and how the text LLM utilizes it.
OpenAI Launches Presence For Voice Agents
The new offering supports real-time experiences across voice and chat agents to handle workflows like customer support and outbound sales.
New Framework Detects Adversarial Audio Attacks
Researchers proposed CAFAD, a plug-and-play detection framework designed to protect automatic speech recognition systems from adversarial examples.
Apple May Charge For Siri AI Features
CEO Tim Cook hinted that Apple is developing a plan to address high computing costs by potentially charging heavy users of its revamped voice assistant. (, )
Friend Wearable Upgraded With Unique Voice
The AI-powered companion device has been overhauled with a built-in speaker to project a consistent personality and combat loneliness.
ElevenLabs Launches AI Powered Speech To Text
The company introduced software designed to transcribe audio and video content across more than 90 languages with human-like precision.
Voice AI Market Projected For Massive Growth
The global Voice AI market is expected to reach $98.4 billion by 2034 as enterprises transition toward hyper-autonomous, full-duplex systems. (, )
Brain Computer Interfaces Restore Lost Speech
A comprehensive review highlights advances in high-speed neural decoding systems capable of translating thoughts into words at 62 words per minute. (, )
Open Source TTS Evaluation Framework Introduced
VoxMetrix has been launched as the first open-source web framework implementing both MOS and EyeTrackingMOS metrics to compare synthetic audio naturalness. (, )
OpenAI Releases Two New Transcription Models
The company introduced GPT-Live-Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe in its API, showing significant semantic accuracy improvements on its context-aware benchmark.
Cartesia Optimizes Sonic Model For Real Time
The company is optimizing its Sonic-3.5 text-to-speech model to deliver fast, clear, and natural real-time conversations.
Comparative Machine Learning Framework for Speaker Identification
Researchers evaluated machine learning models using Mel Spectrogram features from the VoxCeleb dataset, finding that SVM and CNN classifiers deliver competitive speaker identification performance. (, )
Density Ratio Approach Integrates Multiple Japanese ASR Models
A study demonstrates robust automatic speech recognition in unknown target domains by integrating multiple end-to-end models using a density ratio approach.
Noise-Robust Speech System Built for Construction Environments
Researchers proposed a noise-invariant human-robot interaction system combining a domain-specific speech recognition agent and a vision-language model for robot control.
Memristive Nanowire Networks Enable Neuromorphic Audio Feature Extraction
A simulated study demonstrates that memristive nanowire networks can extract compact features directly from raw audio for low-latency, low-power spoken-digit classification.
Encore AI Raises Thirty Million Dollars for Conversational Agents
Encore AI secured $30 million in Series A funding to analyze customer interactions and train autonomous voice agents for support and sales teams.
Fish Audio Launches S2.1 Pro Alongside Seed Funding
Fish Audio raised a $52 million seed round and launched its S2.1 Pro voice model, offering an expressive, low-latency, multilingual stack with open-weight availability. (, )
Acoustic-Based Hate Detection System Developed for Arabic Dialects
A study proposed a lightweight hybrid GRU-LSTM network called STRUSS to detect hate speech in spoken dialectal Arabic using acoustic representations.
OpenAI Integrates GPT-Live Duplex Voice Control Into Developer Workflows
OpenAI has brought its full-duplex GPT-Live audio model directly into developer workflows on Codex and ChatGPT for desktop.
Apple Plans Siri-Centered Smart Home Push with New Hub
Apple is preparing to launch a smart home hub device built around its new Siri AI assistant, alongside a refreshed HomePod mini and TV set-top box.
SpaceXAI Teases Voice Uploads in Imagine Omni Video Generator
SpaceXAI previewed Imagine Omni, a synthetic video tool featuring character locking, multi-reference consistency, and built-in voice upload and recording.
Multi-User Transformer Decoder Accelerates Speech Neuroprosthesis Calibration
A joint-user transformer model trained across six participants decoded cortical activity into text with high accuracy, reducing the training data needed for speech brain-computer interfaces.
VisionAssist App Uses Real-Time Text-to-Speech for Blind Users
A new smartphone-based application recognizes surrounding objects and converts text to speech using Microsoft's Edge TTS engine to assist visually impaired individuals. (, , )
Text-to-Speech Technology Boosts L2 English Speaking Performance
A mixed-methods study revealed that text-to-speech technology significantly improves the English-speaking skills of secondary school students, with the most pronounced gains among low-achieving learners.
Large Language Models Trace Roots Back to ASR Error Correction
A new paper traces the genealogy of LLMs, arguing that their foundational architectures evolved from auxiliary tools originally designed to correct transcription errors in speech recognition systems.
Machine Learning Framework Enhances Speech Emotion Recognition Accuracy
Researchers developed an automated speech emotion recognition framework that combines Convolutional Neural Networks with advanced feature selection techniques to capture complex vocal cues. (, , )
Continuous Wavelet Transform and ResNet Classify Imagined Speech
A new brain-computer interface method processes EEG signals using Continuous Wavelet Transform and a ResNet-50-D architecture to decode imagined speech without physical production.
IoT System Uses Edge Processing for Efficient Speech Recognition
An energy-efficient IoT system built on the ESP32-CAM achieves 98.2% speech recognition accuracy while reducing transmitted data traffic by 92%.
Adaptive Speaking Task Implements LLM-Driven Spoken Dialogue Systems
Researchers proposed an adaptive, computer-delivered speaking assessment that uses large language models to evaluate responses and select follow-up questions in real time.
Speech Disorder Detection Framework Combines Deep Learning and Optimization
A new hybrid model integrates attention-guided deep learning and metaheuristic optimization to improve local and global acoustic pattern representation in speech emotion recognition. Author Voice Cloning Sparks Publishing Industry Concerns — Synthetic voice tools are now capable of copying the voices of established authors to produce instant book narrations for social media.
AssemblyAI Releases Universal Three Point Five Pro
The new flagship speech-to-text model is designed to handle real-world audio with improvements in accuracy, latency, and language switching.
AI Explored to Address Speech Therapy Shortage
Researchers are investigating whether artificial intelligence can expand access to speech therapy in Bangladesh while keeping trained clinicians central to care.
Vocalbeats AI Partners With AGI Playground Singapore
The Singapore-based AI audio company has signed on as a strategic partner for the upcoming event.
MaxMine Launches Voice Enabled Mining Fleet Assistant
The new MAXI assistant allows mining supervisors to query fleet data, generate shift notes, and receive alerts using voice.
Friend Relaunches Talking AI Pendant Wearable
The hardware startup has introduced a $249 screenless pendant equipped with a speaker and a monthly subscription fee for memory. (, )
Google Redesigns Android Voice Search Interface
The homescreen voice search button is receiving a major update that merges AI Mode, Search Live, and song lookup.
Workers Increasingly Talk to Computers via Voice
The adoption of AI voice tools like Gemini Spark is rising in offices, though the shift faces security warnings and European Union delays.
GPT Live Voice Integrates SynthID Watermarks
OpenAI has embedded Google's audio watermarking technology into all ChatGPT Voice and API outputs ahead of EU AI Act enforcement.
Alibaba Releases Qwen Audio Speech Recognition Model
The new Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash model achieves over 95 percent accuracy on medical vocabulary and holds the lowest error rate globally.
Building Voice-Controlled AI Agents Simplified
A new guide breaks down the technical pipeline of voice-controlled AI agents into streaming speech recognition and turn detection.
Parlance Enhances Healthcare Contact Centers
Parlance has updated its healthcare voice AI platform to offer self-service configuration and AI-briefed agent transfers.
ValidSoft Unveils AI Trust Intelligence Stack
ValidSoft has launched a comprehensive voice identity framework to secure humans and AI agents through voice biometrics and synthetic audio detection.
SalesCloser Secures Major Social Media Client
SalesCloser has deployed its autonomous AI sales agents to handle high-volume applicant qualification for a top-five global social media platform.
Voice AI Solves Indian Hospital Phone Issues
Mid-sized hospitals in India are increasingly adopting voice AI to address severe communication and phone infrastructure gaps.
Palabra.ai Leads Text-To-Speech Speed Benchmark
Palabra.ai achieved the top spot for latency on Coval's open-source text-to-speech benchmark with a record speed of 104 milliseconds.
Smallest.ai Raises Twenty-One Million Dollars
Smallest.ai secured a $13 million Series A funding round led by Seligman Ventures to develop its asynchronous Voice 4.0 and Hydra platforms. (, , , , , )
Journalist Tests Voice Cloning on Family
A Cybernews writer successfully cloned their own voice using AI to test if their mother could detect the scam.
Tysa Celebrates One Year of Conversations
Conectys' multilingual AI voice agent, Tysa, completed its first year of enabling scalable, real-time customer experience interactions.
Senate Warns of Rising AI Scams
A bipartisan U.S. Senate panel warned that artificial intelligence and voice cloning are making financial scams targeting seniors significantly more convincing. (, )
OpenAI GPT Transcribe Lowers Audio Costs
OpenAI's GPT Transcribe reduces audio transcription costs for developers by offering live speech tools, context, and keyword features.
Rime Raises Twenty-Four Million Dollars
San Francisco-based speech AI developer Rime raised a $24 million Series A round to expand its text-to-speech models.
xAI Launches Grok Voice Model Upgrade
xAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, a next-generation speech-to-speech model featuring improved transcription accuracy and faster inference speeds. (, , , )
Hoocs.ai Launches High-Speed Audio Transcription
Hoocs.ai introduced a fast, cost-efficient AI audio-to-text converter designed to transform professional workflows.
Heytruffle Secures Funding for AI Concierge
The company formerly known as RestoHost secured funding from Preface Ventures to expand its managed AI phone concierge services.
Avatarin Builds Retail Agent with OpenAI
Retailer Yamada Denki deployed a 24/7 multilingual support agent built on OpenAI's GPT-Realtime to assist shoppers.
PolyAI Releases Real-Time Voice Model
PolyAI launched Dialog-RSN-1, a voice dialog model that reasons directly over raw call audio to reduce latency and improve emotional awareness. (, , , )
Soracom Launches Air RTC Gateway Service
Soracom introduced a cloud service that routes cellular voice from IoT devices directly to contact centers and AI agents based on SIM identity. (, )
Swivl Releases Self-Storage Voice Agent Data
Swivl published data from the first quarter of 2026 detailing the performance and usage of its AI voice agents in self-storage operations.
WellSpan Health Partners with Hippocratic AI
WellSpan Health expanded its partnership with Hippocratic AI to deploy generative voice AI agents across inpatient and ambulatory workflows.
Nabla Launches Medical Dictation for Apple
Nabla introduced a medical-grade dictation product built specifically for Apple devices to advance its voice-first healthcare vision.
Taco Bell Expands Voice AI Ordering
Taco Bell expanded its voice AI technology to nearly 900 U.S. restaurants in partnership with its voice AI provider.
Brothers Launch Savi Scam Protection App
Following a voice-cloning scam attempt on their mother, two brothers developed and launched Savi, an AI-powered scam protection application.
Advocates Push FTC to Probe Voice Cloning
Consumer advocates are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate an unnamed AI company's voice cloning product.
MUSC Health Expands Emily Voice Agent
MUSC Health integrated SoundHound AI's voice platform "Emily" into retail and specialty pharmacy workflows with native Epic EHR support.
Windows Eleven Update Upgrades Voice Typing
Microsoft released update KB5101681 for Windows 11, introducing upgrades to its built-in voice typing feature.
Encore AI Raises Thirty Million Dollars
Conversational AI startup Encore AI secured $30 million to train client-specific voice agents and deepen CRM integrations for financial firms.
Tata Communications Launches SMB Voice AI
Tata Communications and TTBS introduced a new voice AI platform built on Commotion's capabilities to support Indian small and medium businesses.
Vellum Adds Voice Mode to Assistant
Vellum introduced a new Voice Mode that processes spoken conversations through the same agent loop powering its text assistant.
Fish Audio Raises Fifty-Two Million Dollars
Fish Audio secured $52 million in seed funding and launched its S2.1 Pro voice model to compete in the expressive voice AI market. (, , )
Cencori and Spitch Partner in Africa
Cencori and Spitch partnered to deliver localized African voice AI models, including Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Amharic, through a single API.
New Orleans Tests AI for Nine-One-One
The city of New Orleans is testing artificial intelligence voice agents to answer non-emergency and emergency 911 calls.
LG Gram Laptops Integrate Offline Dictation
LG Electronics integrated ActionPower's on-device voice recognition technology into its Gram laptop line to enable offline dictation.
Krafton Releases Open Source Speech Model
South Korean game developer Krafton released its new audio foundation model, A.X K2 Raon-Speech, as open source on Hugging Face. (, , )
Google Adds Voice Dictation to macOS
Google rolled out new voice features for the Gemini app on macOS, allowing users to transcribe, edit, and summarize spoken requests. (, , )
OpenHome and ElevenLabs Partner in Japan
OpenHome and ElevenLabs Japan launched a developer program offering ElevenLabs credits for voice AI projects built on OpenHome hardware. (, , , , )
Exaforce Launches Voice-Powered Security App
Exaforce introduced ExaGo, a hands-free, voice-powered mobile application designed for security operations center teams.
CallRail Expands Voice Assist Availability
CallRail made its Voice Assist solution available as a standalone product to all businesses while adding contextual AI texting.
Parlance Releases Parlance Twelve Platform Upgrade
Conversational voice AI provider Parlance launched Parlance 12 as its platform nears a milestone of two billion handled calls.
United Telecoms Launches Voice Agent Platform
South African unified communications provider United Telecoms introduced a proprietary AI voice agent platform for local businesses.
Cloudonix Contributes Call Transfer to Dograh
Cloudonix enabled native call transfers between AI voice agents and business phone systems by contributing code to the open-source Dograh project. (, )
Researchers Establish Vocal Biomarker Standards
Experts have established standards for vocal biomarkers to help predict diseases through voice recordings and AI analysis.
La Mesa Police Adopt Voice Assistant
The La Mesa Police Department implemented an AI-powered voice assistant to handle non-emergency phone calls.
Yelp Host Integrates with OpenTable
Yelp Host expanded its voice AI capabilities by integrating with OpenTable to automatically manage restaurant reservations and takeout orders. (, )
DXC Technology Partners with ElevenLabs
DXC Technology formed a strategic partnership with ElevenLabs to scale enterprise AI and voice innovation across its business. (, )
AI Voice Phishing Scams Target Elderly Citizens
Fraudsters in the United States are increasingly using voice cloning technology that requires as little as three seconds of audio to impersonate family members and target older adults. (, )
New Orleans Implements AI Emergency Dispatch Agents
The city of New Orleans is deploying artificial intelligence agents to answer 911 calls instead of human dispatchers.
Nabla Launches Medical Dictation For Apple Devices
Nabla has released a medical-grade dictation product built specifically for Apple devices to expand voice-first AI technology beyond patient encounters.
Krafton Releases New Foundation Voice AI Model
Krafton has launched its voice AI foundation model, "A.X K2 Raon-Speech," on Hugging Face, achieving top performance rankings in Korean and English. (, , )
Fish Audio Launches Multilingual S2.1 Pro Model
Fish Audio has released its S2.1 Pro production voice model, which supports 83 languages and focuses on real-time conversational speech.
Fish Audio Secures Fifty-Two Million Dollar Seed Funding
Voice AI startup Fish Audio has raised $52 million in seed funding to expand its real-time text-to-speech, voice cloning, and voice agent platform. (, , )
APAC Voice Agents Struggle With Regional Accents
While AI voice agents are expanding rapidly across the Asia-Pacific region, their ability to recognize diverse regional accents, dialects, and code-switching remains limited.
ElevenLabs Launches Grants Program For Voice Startups
ElevenLabs has introduced a grants program offering early-stage startups 12 months of free access to its full conversational AI, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text platform.
Deterministic AI Secures Voice Communication Channels
Implementing deterministic AI is becoming critical to securing the voice communications path as artificial intelligence technologies rapidly advance.
Rime Raises Twenty-Four Million Dollar Series A
Voice AI startup Rime has secured $24 million in Series A funding to advance its speech-to-speech models.
German Utility Pilot Proves Voice AI Success
A pilot project by rhenag demonstrates how voice AI agents can eliminate waiting times and provide reliable 24/7 customer service for energy providers.
AI Virtual Receptionists Transform Small Business Operations
Small businesses are increasingly adopting AI virtual receptionists to handle calls, integrate with CRMs, and provide bilingual support.
SoundHound And Five9 Compete In Customer AI
Enterprises are rapidly adopting conversational AI and intelligent virtual agents, driving competition between customer engagement platforms like SoundHound and Five9.
SoundHound Stock Rises On LivePerson Partnership Expansion
SoundHound AI shares have traded up following bullish market sentiment surrounding its expanding AI voice partnerships, including its deal with LivePerson.
CFA Urges Investigation Into Speechify Voice Cloning
The Consumer Federation of America has filed a complaint with the FTC and state attorneys general urging an investigation into Speechify for facilitating AI voice cloning impersonation scams. (, )
Anthropic Upgrades Claude AI Voice Mode Capabilities
Anthropic has released an upgraded voice mode for its Claude AI model family to make voice-based interactions more helpful for users.
Scammers Clone Police Voices In Pennsylvania Scam
Fraudsters in York County, Pennsylvania, are using AI voice cloning to impersonate local sheriff's deputies and demand immediate payment for fake warrants. (, , )
Actors Accuse Tech Firms Of Unauthorized Cloning
Multiple international actors have accused technology companies of cloning their likenesses and voices without consent to produce AI micro-dramas.
Japan Backs Civil Liability For Voice Cloning
A government panel in Japan has backed civil liability for the unauthorized AI use of public figures' voices under the right of publicity.
OpenAI Launches Real Time Voice For Enterprises
OpenAI has expanded its voice technology with the launch of GPT-Live for real-time task collaboration and Presence for deploying customer-facing voice agents. (, , )
Cybercrime Unit Retools After Voice Ransom Scam
A Missouri sheriff's office cybercrime task force is refocusing its strategy after investigating a chilling scam involving artificial intelligence voice cloning for ransom. (, )
Boson AI Introduces Higgs RealTime Speech Model
Boson AI founder Alex Smola is targeting the voice AI market with the Higgs RealTime speech-to-speech model, featuring emotion control and support for over 100 languages. (, , )
Video Transcriber AI Enhances Transcription Platform Capabilities
Video Transcriber AI has expanded its platform with new features including video-to-text transcription, YouTube transcript generation, and an audio-to-text converter.
LEO Technologies Launches Verus Voice AI Biometrics
LEO Technologies has introduced Verus Voice AI, a voice-biometric tool designed to help corrections agencies detect and stop personal identification number abuse in real time. (, )
Deepgram Enhances Amazon SageMaker AI Security Integration
Deepgram has updated its support for Amazon SageMaker AI by integrating AWS IAM Temporary Delegation to secure speech-to-text workflows.
Indian Real Estate Adopts AI Voice Agents
Real estate companies in India are increasingly deploying AI voice agents to handle the high volume of phone calls required during the house-hunting process.
AI Voice Agents Face Infrastructure Challenges In India
Although AI voice agents are becoming critical infrastructure in India, they frequently struggle with local linguistic and environmental complexities.
AI Vocal Remover Tools Gain Creator Popularity
Content creators, musicians, and educators are increasingly utilizing AI vocal remover and voice isolator tools to clean audio clips and lessons.
Queensland Startup Replicates Voices For Cancer Patients
Australian startup Laronix is using artificial intelligence to replicate and restore the natural voices of patients who have lost their ability to speak due to disease.
FSU Researchers Warn Of AI Voice Scams
Researchers at Florida State University warn that AI-powered voice cloning combined with traditional tactics is making financial fraud exceptionally difficult for older adults to detect.
Hybe Liquidates AI Voice Startup Supertone Operations
South Korean entertainment giant Hybe is liquidating its AI audio company Supertone just three years after acquiring it for approximately $33.4 million.
Krisp Focuses On Securing Enterprise Voice AI
Krisp is addressing real-world deployment challenges by focusing on noise cancellation to secure and scale enterprise-grade voice AI.
Technical Guide Explains Voice To Voice AI
A new technical guide details how modern voice-to-voice AI models manage speech encoding, audio tokens, streaming, turn-taking, and latency.
Taco Bell Expands Voice AI Drive Thrus
Taco Bell has expanded its voice-enabled AI drive-thru ordering system to more than 890 restaurants across 38 states in the U.S.
ElevenLabs Introduces Prompt Based AI Voice Design
ElevenLabs has launched Voice Design, a new feature and API that allows users to generate unique, realistic, or character-based voices using text prompts.
Production Voice Stack Built For African Languages
A new production voice AI architecture combines fine-tuned speech recognition, translation, and streaming text-to-speech specifically for Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa.
ESTsoft Leads Government AI Dubbing Project Again
ESTsoft will lead the South Korean government's K-FAST project for the second consecutive year to accelerate the globalization of K-content using AI dubbing.
Instagram Adds Voice Tools To Reels Feature
Instagram has introduced new audio tools to Reels, including speech-to-text capabilities and voice effects.
AI Speech To Text Tools Accelerate Writing
New AI speech-to-text tools are helping users who prefer speaking over typing to quickly draft lengthy documents, emails, and notes.
Meta Temporarily Adjusts Smart Glasses Audio Feature
Meta has walked back limits on its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature, allowing users to temporarily continue utilizing the audio capability.
AI Notetakers Raise Privacy Concerns Among Professionals
While AI notetakers offer quick meeting summaries and action items, some professionals are questioning their use due to data privacy concerns.