AI Briefing#voice-ai
The latest AI and developer news about #voice-ai, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #voice-ai, with the original source and a short summary.
Cognition has released 'Devin Voice', where users dictate development tasks via voice and the AI handles planning, coding, and deployment.
Listen Labs canceled its Series C fundraise at a $1.5B valuation due to potential acquisition negotiations with Salesforce.
OpenAI has launched GPT-Live-1 on its API, supporting latency-free full-duplex voice conversations and backend model integration.
VoiceStudio, an open-source tool for performing voice cloning, video dubbing, and transcription locally, has been released.
Inception Labs has released Mercury 2.5, which increases intelligence by 40% and generates 1,107 tokens per second.
Anarock deployed the ElevenLabs-based voice AI 'Genie' to increase consultation capacity fivefold and generate ₹2,000 crore in revenue.
Ebury has built an AI Sales Academy based on ElevenAgents to provide multilingual real-time coaching to over 600 sales personnel worldwide.
Google has introduced voice-based task delegation and personalization features to Gemini Live.
Speko is a gateway service that optimally routes various voice AI models based on performance and cost.
Google's Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly users.
Omnichannel AI agents maintain conversation context across channels to provide a consistent customer experience.
Finch increased its call success rate from 59% to 93% after adopting ElevenAgents.
ByteDance Seed has deployed SeedRealtime, a full-duplex model that processes audio and video in real time, on Doubao.
Lovable and ElevenLabs built an AI GTM coach that automates sales role-playing.
NVIDIA released an 11B voice model supporting 450ms response times and tool calling.
OpenAI built the architecture for GPT-Live in six months to enable real-time voice conversations.
Kakao integrated LM-SPT into Kanana-o, improving voice efficiency and style control, achieving 94.50 on the Korean InstructTTSEval benchmark, close to Gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts's 95.38.
OpenAI built a real-time, bidirectional system for natural voice conversations in GPT-Live.
Microsoft is testing MAI Realtime, a full-duplex real-time voice model, in MAI Playground.
Valiant Finance leveraged ElevenLabs' AI voice solutions to transform after-hours customer support and marketing efficiency.
xAI's new speech-to-speech model, Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, has launched on AI Gateway.
For AI agents to communicate naturally, design that goes beyond simple scripts to optimize persona, latency, and conversation flow is essential.
ElevenLabs outlined the compliance, integration, and scalability requirements for successfully deploying conversational AI in large-scale enterprise environments.
Voicify leveraged Gemini Enterprise to boost the accuracy and reliability of AI phone-ordering systems in the restaurant and healthcare sectors.