Voice AI

Latest: Entravision's AI DJ Coyotec Expands to Seven US Markets Across Spanish-Language Radio Stations · latimes.com, Oct 2, 2026

Topic Tracked keywords: voice ai, speech ai, text-to-speech, voice clone

4 AI Weekly issues and 63 live stories from the last 30 days mention Voice AI.

5 total mentions 0/20 recent issues peak 0/issue tracked since 2025-07-18

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Live Stories (63)

Entravision's AI DJ Coyotec Expands to Seven US Markets Across Spanish-Language Radio Stations

latimes.com · 2026-10-02 · Score: 17

ElevenLabs Closes $300M Tender at $22B, Wellington and T. Rowe Price Lead, Doubling February Mark

elevenlabs.io · 2026-09-30 · Score: 24

ElevenLabs Ships v4 and v4 Turbo Speech Models With 90+ Languages, 10-Second Voice Clones

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 22

Voice-AI Startup Modulate Raises $25M Series C Led by Future Ventures for Enterprise Voice Intelligence

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 16

Google Tests 'Call for Me,' Letting Gemini Phone Businesses on Behalf of Pixel 11 Subscribers

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-24 · Score: 25

ALERT Alibaba Ships Qwen-Audio 3.1 Stack With TTS-Next and ASR-Next, Cuts Voice API Prices Up to 95%

the-decoder.com · 2026-09-23 · Score: 28

ALERT OpenAI Adds Plugins to ChatGPT Voice, Lets Users Switch Between GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna

9to5mac.com · 2026-09-23 · Score: 29

Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS With 2,000 Voices and 100+ Languages

blog.google · 2026-09-23 · Score: 26

Qwen Team Releases OmniVChat: Native Audio-Video Dialogue Task, Bench and RL Recipe in One Drop

huggingface.co · 2026-09-21 · Score: 19

SpaceXAI Ships Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 With 2x Accuracy at Same Price, Tops Artificial Analysis Chart

marktechpost.com · 2026-09-18 · Score: 26

ALERT Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking, Tops Speech-to-Speech Quality Index at 82.6

blog.google · 2026-09-15 · Score: 35

Bloomberg: Apple Watch Series 12's Live Rewind and Siri Recap Could Trip All-Party Consent Wiretap Laws

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-11 · Score: 20

XPeng AI Ships X-AuT: Progressive Audio-Encoder Compression Cuts Speech LLM Layers Without Accuracy Loss

huggingface.co · 2026-09-10 · Score: 18

OpenAI Launches GPT-Live-1 in the API at $0.05/Minute, Cuts Turn-Taking Latency to 0.8 Seconds

openai.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 23

Shanghai Jiao Tong Open-Sources AuK, a 1.5B Foundation Model Unifying Speech Generation and Editing

huggingface.co · 2026-09-08 · Score: 20

Tencent Ships Gander, an Open Omni-Interaction Agent With 100% Turn-Taking Accuracy on Full-Duplex Bench

huggingface.co · 2026-09-09 · Score: 21

Microsoft AI Ships MAI-Transcribe-2 at $0.10/Hour, Claims 10x Speed Over OpenAI's GPT-Transcribe

venturebeat.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 26

VibeVoice-ASR Ships 1.5B and 7B Open Weights for Streaming Speaker-Attributed Speech Recognition

huggingface.co · 2026-09-03 · Score: 22

Sonos Opens Platform to Third-Party AI Agents via New MCP Layer and In-House Sonos 27voice LLM

engadget.com · 2026-09-01 · Score: 22

Fitbit Co-founders Launch $250 Luffu Link, an LTE Health Band With Background AI for Family Caregiving

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 19

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

Newsletter Issues (4)

AI Applications: HSBC will only ship AI that returns $100M

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

AI Applications: The agent is not a product anymore

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

AI Healthcare: Why pharma data is the real moat

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

#448 Issue #448: Mistral AI gives Le Chat voice recognition and deep research tools

2025-07-18 · 1 mentions