Amazon Makes Alexa+ Free on All Compatible Fire TV Devices, Ending Its $19.99 Non-Prime Fee

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-19 · Score: 21

Reddit Tests AI Narration of Text Posts, Adds 'Play' Mode Video Versions Across Web, iOS and Android

engadget.com · 2026-08-17 · Score: 23

Wispr Closes $280M Series B at $2B Valuation Led by Menlo Ventures

fortune.com · 2026-08-17 · Score: 26

Airbnb Says AI Support Agent Handled 40% of Routed Issues in Q2, Cut Cost per Booking 16%

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-06 · Score: 18

FT: Voice AI Startups Raised $7B in Q1 2026, Up From $1B in Q1 2025 as Agents Race for Voice Interface

ft.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 22

ALERT Point72, Citadel, Two Sigma Hit by Wave of AI Voice-Cloning Vishing Attacks

gizmodo.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 36

ALERT Google Confirms Google Assistant Shuts Down on Android and Wear OS Sept 4, Replaced by Gemini

9to5google.com · 2026-08-04 · Score: 29

NVIDIA Ships Open-Weight Nemotron VoiceChat 11B, First Open Full-Duplex Model With Live Tool Calling

huggingface.co · 2026-08-03 · Score: 27

Avi Schiffmann's Friend Ships a $249 Talking AI Pendant With $10/Month Subscription

wired.com · 2026-07-30 · Score: 20

Encore AI Raises $30M Series A Led by Team8 for Voice Agents Trained on Customer Calls

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-29 · Score: 15

Fish Audio Raises $52M Seed for AI Voice Models, Discloses $21M ARR

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 19

Gurman: Apple Preparing 7-Inch Siri AI Smart Home Hub With Facial Recognition, New Apple TV and HomePod Mini

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 17

Meta Pauses Ray-Ban Smart Glasses 3-Hour 'Conversation Focus' Rate Limit After User Backlash

theverge.com · 2026-07-24 · Score: 20

ALERT OpenAI Puts ChatGPT Voice on macOS and Windows, Lets Users Steer Codex and Work Agents by Voice

9to5mac.com · 2026-07-23 · Score: 28

Google Home Extends Gemini Conversation Memory to 15 Minutes and Brings Gemini Live to First-Gen Nest Hub and Mini

9to5google.com · 2026-07-23 · Score: 18

Anthropic Puts Opus and Sonnet in Claude Voice Mode and Wires in Gmail, Slack and Notion

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-23 · Score: 26

Samsung Rolls Out Samsung Health Assistant Beta in US, an AI Coach Trained on Sleep, Activity and Vitals

thenextweb.com · 2026-07-21 · Score: 17

Rime Raises $24M Series A Led by M13 for Studio-Trained AI Voice Models Processing 100M+ Enterprise Calls Per Month — Adds Ex-Meta/NVIDIA Rafael Valle as Chief Scientist, Customers Include Mayo Clinic, Dialpad, Upstart, Asurion

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-15 · Score: 19

Ex-Hinge CEO Justin McLeod Raises $18M Series A for Overtone, Voice-First AI Dating Service — Backed by Match Group, FirstMark and Pace With Esther Perel on Board

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-14 · Score: 18

Spotify Launches 'Talk to Spotify' Voice-AI Feature in Beta for Premium Users 18+ in US, Ireland and Sweden — Users Can Speak or Type to Build Playlists, Alter Mood, Ask About Albums and Podcasts From Home Screen or Now Playing on iOS and Android

engadget.com · 2026-07-14 · Score: 18

Apple Ships First Public Betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27 and tvOS 27 — New Siri Handles Follow-Ups, Reads Screen Content and Runs Multi-Step In-App Actions as Apple's Long-Delayed AI Assistant Finally Reaches Testers

engadget.com · 2026-07-13 · Score: 22

Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim to Debut 'PMX AI' Voice-Cloned Avatar Within Days — Zetrix AI-Built Double Trained on His Speeches, Handles Driver's Licence Renewals in English, Malay and Regional Dialects

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-10 · Score: 20

ALERT OpenAI Launches GPT-Live — Full-Duplex Voice Model That Listens and Speaks Simultaneously, Rolls Out to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro Tiers

openai.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 30

HF Paper 'Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B' — Unified Audio-Text LLM Trained on 157B Audio + 320B Text Tokens Hits SOTA on Audio/Speech Tasks Without Regressing on Text

huggingface.co · 2026-07-06 · Score: 19

Solos Unveils AirGo A6 Camera-Less Smart Glasses at 19g — Half the Weight of AirGo V2, Plus New Clip-On Privacy Shield for Existing Camera Model

gizmodo.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 18

Alibaba Wan Team Releases Wan-Streamer v0.2 — Native Full-Duplex Audio-Video Agent Jumps to 640×368 at 25 FPS With Same ~200ms Model-Side Latency via Ulysses Context-Parallel 'Performer' Group

huggingface.co · 2026-07-07 · Score: 20

ElevenLabs In Talks for Employee Tender Offer at ~$22B Valuation — Double Its February Series D Valuation of $11B

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 23

Hugging Face + Cerebras Ship Open Cascaded Speech-to-Speech Stack: Nvidia Parakeet → Gemma 4 31B VLM on Cerebras → Alibaba Qwen3-TTS, Already Powering 9,000+ Reachy Mini Robots

huggingface.co · 2026-07-01 · Score: 18

xAI Opens Grok Voice Agent Builder to All Users as No-Code Platform — Deploy Production Voice Agents in Under Two Minutes at $0.05/Min

x.ai · 2026-07-01 · Score: 19

HF Paper 'FlexiSLM': First Dynamic and Controllable Frame Rate Spoken Language Model Adjusts Audio Token Rate on the Fly, Beats Fixed-Rate SLMs on Latency-Quality Tradeoff

huggingface.co · 2026-06-30 · Score: 16

Coval Raises $28M Series A Led by Norwest to Build Simulation and Monitoring Platform for AI Voice and Chat Agents — 30× QA Reduction Claimed, Zoom and Deepgram Among Early Customers

siliconangle.com · 2026-06-24 · Score: 16

Prosper AI Raises $30M Series A Led by a16z to Automate the Full Patient Journey — Scheduling, Insurance Verification, and Billing via AI Voice Agents

axios.com · 2026-06-22 · Score: 21

Google Launches First Standalone Smart Speaker Since 2020 at $99.99 Built Natively on Gemini Live, Bets AI Can Revive Stagnant Smart Speaker Market

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-17 · Score: 24

Bland Raises $50M Series C Led by Dell Technologies Capital After 180 Investor Rejections — 3.5 Million Calls Per Week

fortune.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 22

Plaud Crosses $100 Million ARR After Shipping More Than 2 Million AI Notetaker Devices

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 15

Google Releases Android 17 With Gemini Omni, Lyria 3 Music Generation, and AudioLM Translation — Laying Groundwork for Agentic 'Gemini Intelligence' Later in 2026

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 24

Plaud AI Note-Taking Startup Plans New Agent-Ready Wearable Device and Projects $500M in 2026 Sales

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 16

The Verge Hands-On: Rebuilt Gemini-Powered Siri in iOS 27 'Actually Works'

theverge.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 15

Google Launches Gemini Live 3.5 Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Translation Across 70+ Languages With Intonation and Pitch Preservation

blog.google · 2026-06-09 · Score: 24

Google Rolls Out AI Fake Call Detection Globally to Android 12+ — RCS Digital Handshake Warns Users When Callers May Be AI Deepfake Impersonators

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-02 · Score: 23

ElevenLabs Ships Dubbing v2: Performance-Conditioned Dubbing Across 90+ Languages — First System to Preserve Speaker Emotion Without a Transcript

youtube.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 19

Sesame Launches iOS App in 39 Countries — 4 Distinct Voice AI Agents With Persistent Memory, From Oculus Co-Founders

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 20

Stan Lee 'Returns': ElevenLabs Licenses Marvel Legend's Voice and Likeness for AI Narration and Visual Templates

Variety · 2026-05-27 · Score: 23

r/LocalLLaMA: OpenMOSS Releases MOSS-TTS-v1.5 — Open-Source TTS With Multi-Speaker Dialogue, Zero-Shot Voice Cloning, and Sound Effects

huggingface.co · 2026-05-26 · Score: 15

TechCrunch Reviews Amazon's Bee AI Wearable: Constant Conversation Recording Useful, But 'Slightly Creeped Out' by Privacy Implications

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-24 · Score: 17

NTSB Shuts Down Public Docket Access After AI Tools Used to Reconstruct Voices of Pilots Killed in UPS Crash From Publicly Available Spectrograms

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-22 · Score: 23

Spotify Officially Bans AI-Generated Podcasts That Impersonate Real People, Adds Verified Badges for Shows

variety.com · 2026-05-19 · Score: 19

Amazon Alexa+ Now Generates On-Demand AI Podcast Episodes for Subscribers

TechCrunch · 2026-05-18 · Score: 15

Voice AI Systems Can Be Hijacked by Inaudible Audio Attacks Imperceptible to Humans

IEEE Spectrum · 2026-05-18 · Score: 22

Bloomberg/Gurman: Apple iOS 27 Standalone Siri App With Auto-Deleting Chats May Launch With Explicit 'Beta' Label — Positions Privacy as Structural Differentiator From Rivals

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-17 · Score: 24

Amazon Launches Alexa+ AI Shopping Assistant Inside Search Bar — Voice and Touch Across Mobile, Desktop, and Echo Show

TechCrunch · 2026-05-13 · Score: 21

Rivian Ships OTA Update Adding Onboard AI Assistant to All R1T and R1S Vehicles

arstechnica.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 18

Android Auto Gets Major AI-Powered Upgrade With YouTube, Dolby Atmos, and Immersive 3D Maps

techradar.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 19

Vapi Raises $50M Series B at $500M Valuation After Amazon Ring Chose It Over 40 Rivals to Handle 100% of Inbound Calls

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 20

Wispr AI in Talks to Raise ~$260M at $2B Valuation, More Than Doubling Its Previous Mark — Bloomberg

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 21

HN: 'Interaction Models' — Thinking Machines Lab Proposes Real-Time Multimodal Architecture With 200ms Micro-Turn Processing — 112 Points, 11 Comments

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 20

TechCrunch: Wispr Flow Says India Is Now Its Fastest-Growing Voice AI Market, Hits ~100% MoM Growth on Hinglish Launch

TechCrunch · 2026-05-09 · Score: 16

OpenAI Launches GPT-Realtime-2 and Two New Voice Intelligence API Models With GPT-5-Class Reasoning and 70-Language Live Translation

OpenAI · 2026-05-07 · Score: 27

Spotify Repositions as Platform for AI-Generated Personal Audio, Letting Users Import AI-Created Podcasts

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 19

ElevenLabs Crosses $500M ARR, Adds BlackRock, Nvidia, and Celebrity Investors to Series D Third Close

digitalmusicnews.com · 2026-05-06 · Score: 23

OpenAI Engineering: How We Rebuilt Our WebRTC Stack to Deliver Low-Latency Voice AI at Scale

openai.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 22

Deepfake Voice Attacks Are Outpacing Enterprise Defenses as US Incidents Hit 100K

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 17

Sakana AI introduces KAME: tandem speech-to-speech architecture injecting LLM knowledge in real time

marktechpost.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 17

xAI spots Grok Voice mode placeholder for Apple CarPlay in latest iPhone app

9to5mac.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 18

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