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NTT Docomo Business is piloting ElevenAgents, ElevenLabs' conversational voice platform, in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, to support older residents with natural Japanese speech.
India's BHASHINI platform and IISc Bengaluru developed text-to-speech models for the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu, expanding speech synthesis to a low-resource language.
A report examines why voice AI remains hard to deploy well in bank collections and dispute calls, citing speech recognition, compliance and customer-experience challenges.
OrcaRouter published a comparison of Grok Voice 3.0 and Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, contrasting how the speech systems hear versus render audio.
Ghana's Chief Justice says the judiciary will procure speech-to-text machines to transcribe local languages into English by year-end.
Bulbul V4 Flash is Sarvam AI's new fast text-to-speech model for Indian languages, bringing voice-agent campaigns and analytics into coding tools.
KittenML now offers a larger speech model, hosted text-to-speech and transcription APIs and emotion-aware transcription, alongside the founders' existing 25 MB CPU speech model.
SoundHound AI rolled out voice AI for Kia vehicles; analysts set a $12.75 price target on the stock.
An explainer on ElevenLabs, the AI voice platform for text-to-speech, voice cloning and dubbing. It describes what the product does and how creators use it; no new release or facts.
DeepZang, released in March, converts speech and writing between Tibetan, Mandarin Chinese and English, and will undergo a series of linguistic upgrades, Sixth Tone reports.
Vobiz AI offers telecom infrastructure and connectivity for voice AI agents, handling telephony, SIP and call routing so developers can deploy real-time voice applications.
Shipping group CMA CGM is expanding its use of HappyRobot's AI voice agents across global operations, automating carrier calls and logistics coordination at scale.
Voice AI startup careCycle rolled out a free plan comparison tool for Medicare beneficiaries, using voice AI to help them evaluate and choose coverage options.
A user reports that Hungarian language dictation support is finally available, referring to an app's speech-to-text feature rather than a formal product announcement.
Superwhisper, a dictation tool with LLM reformatting for macOS, Windows and Linux, reached version 3.0 with a meeting recorder that joins calls without a bot and can run offline.
OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT voice with GPT-Live-1.1, adding six new voices including Korean and Hindi-focused options plus more natural conversation and time limits.
Geek Vibes Nation argues real-time voice AI belongs in geek and entertainment culture, describing dubbing and translation use cases for films, games and fandom content.
A disabled peer used AI voice-recreation technology to deliver a speech to the House of Lords in the voice she used to have, per the Disability News Service.
Neowin reports Ubuntu 26.10 ships Myna, a local AI voice agent named after a talking bird, letting users run voice interactions on-device without cloud services.
Syllad reports Shillong-based MWire Labs showcased what it says is the first public Garo speech-to-text AI model at a Google event, aiming to support the low-resource language.
The Kathmandu Post asked experts whether AI can convincingly clone Nepali voices, highlighting growing concerns over voice-fraud risk for a low-resource language.
H2S Media reports Grok Voice 3.0 leads the Voice AI Index yet still underperforms on real customer-support calls, where latency and task completion matter more.
Maya 2 is an open-weight voice AI model covering 22 Indian languages, released free for speech tasks such as text-to-speech and voice interaction.
Edifier launched We-Bass open-ear earbuds with integrated DeepSeek AI features, bringing AI voice assistance to an open-ear audio product.
Afterparty is a Product Hunt tool that turns meeting transcripts into drafted emails, messages, invites and CRM notes across connected apps, with human approval before sending.
Grok Voice reportedly resolves 70% of Starlink's customer calls with no human intervention, as businesses weigh how to verify outcomes and measure cost per case.
NatWest worked with Nvidia to make its AI spending tool recognize UK regional accents better, improving speech recognition for customers.
Atticus is a Mac app where you hold a key, speak, and the computer performs the requested action, using voice to control desktop tasks.
Druid AI expanded its enterprise agentic AI platform with new voice capabilities plus agent interoperability and governance features for enterprise deployments.
Inworld launched realtime inference aimed at consumer AI applications, targeting low-latency voice and interactive experiences for developers.
Grok Voice 3.0 is xAI's new speech-to-speech model for building voice agents, handling Starlink and Tesla calls. API pricing is unchanged and existing users are auto-migrated.
Square launched the Square Kiosk, a pill-shaped touchscreen ordering device with an agentic conversational voice layer that understands a seller's menu and listens to spoken orders.
Samsung is rolling out its Galaxy AI tools, including Transcript, Call and Note Assist, to more users and additional languages.
SoundHound AI launched its first in-car AI product in India, with analysts debating what the move means for the company's rich valuation.
A Reddit user says BreezeBlue-TTS-2 is the best locally runnable text-to-speech model right now, beating Moss TTS 1.5, but its license is non-commercial. Moss TTS 1.5 remains best free-to-use.
Tether invested in AIsa and announced on-device speech recognition for smart glasses and humanoid robots. The push aims to enable stablecoin AI-agent payments and private edge voice AI.
An X post announces Maya-2, billed as the world's best Indic voice AI model with fully open weights, claiming it outperforms ElevenLabs v3, Cartesia Sonic 3.5 and Bulbul v3 across Indian languages; free to builders soon.
Stripe customer stories describe Gradium using Stripe to bill for global voice AI services and CreativeFitting scaling AI-generated short dramas internationally with Stripe payments. Both are case studies, not new products.
Apple ML researchers propose finding code-switched utterances in large speech collections using language-selective dimensions in speech foundation models, helping add them to training data.
Drama 3 is a 35B-parameter mixture-of-experts text-to-speech model with about 3B active parameters. Fish Audio released the weights, and users on Reddit and MarkTechPost call it a new leading open TTS option.