Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users
Google's Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, with the company reporting 63% of users engage via voice and more than 150 million images generated daily.
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Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie…
A Hugging Face Blog post covers NVIDIA Magpie TTS, positioned for building low-latency multilingual voice agents with open weights and full deployment control.
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months
OpenAI details GPT-Live, a realtime voice AI system built over six months that uses a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for continuous, more natural voice interaction.
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human
Smallest.ai raised $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Fish Audio raised a $52M seed round to develop AI voice models. It reports over 8 million users of its open-source or hosted models and $21M in annual recurring revenue.
OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
OpenAI has added voice mode to the ChatGPT desktop app. ChatGPT Voice can operate alongside ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Anthropic has updated Claude's voice mode with more capable models, adding the ability to perform tasks such as rescheduling meetings and drafting emails.
Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Anthropic is bringing Claude's voice mode to its Opus and Sonnet models, moving beyond the faster Haiku model, and extending voice into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva.
Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
AWS details how to build a telephony AI host that answers calls and takes restaurant orders using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Nova 2 Sonic, and the Model Context Protocol.
How Speech-to-Text Works: From Sound Waves to Transcripts
Speech recognition went from a brittle research problem to a solved-ish commodity in about three years. Here is the pipeline that made it work — and where it still breaks.
Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI
Hugging Face has launched Real World VoiceEQ, a new measurement tool that evaluates the human quality of voice AI systems.
Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features
Waze is gaining four new updates, two of which use Google's Gemini assistant, including conversational voice reporting and a new Destination Search feature.
AI Voice Agents in Call Centers: What Works, What Frustrates
AI voice agents can now hold a real phone conversation. Here is where they genuinely help in call centers, where they backfire, and how to roll them out so customers don't revolt.
Multimodal AI Goes Mainstream: One Model, Many Senses
The leading AI models no longer just read and write text — they see images and hear audio too. Here is what 'multimodal' means and why it has become the default expectation.