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Speech Technology News

Presto Partners with ElevenLabs for Voice AI for Restaurant Drive-thrus

Presto is using ElevenLabs' voices for its client's drive-thru automation.

Housecall Pro Brings Voice-Activated Invoicing to the Trades

Housecall Pro's voice-activated solutions let home service professionals invoice from anywhere.

Capacity Acquires KLaunch

Capacity strengthens its conversational AI capabilities with KLaunch acquisition.

SK Networks and Kardome Partner

SK Networks and Kardome are combining smart home wellness with voice AI through NAMUHX robot.

Voices Launches Character Audio Dataset for Voice AI Training

Voices' character voice dataset features more than 450 distinct character types, each performed by professional voice contributors.

iScribeHealth and athenahealth Expand Partnership

iScribeHealth's expanded partnership with athenahealth will bring Ambient Notes to more clinicians nationwide.

SoundHound Acquires Interactions

Interactions acquisition is expected to strengthen and extend SoundHound's capabilities in agentic AI. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

Milagro and Revmo AI Partner on Conversational Voice AI for Restaurants

Milagro is embedding Revmo's voice-ordering, reservations, and customer engagement tools directly into its restaurant platform.

TTEC Digital and VoxEQ Partner on Real-Time Voice Biometrics in SmartApps Cloud

VoxEQ's integration with TTEC Digital's SmartApps Cloud delivers AI-powered fraud prevention.

Verbit and Deepdub Partner on Multilingual Dubbing

Verbit and Deepdub are automating multilingual dubbing powered by Deepdub's eTTS technology.

Bloomberg AI Researchers Refine OpenAI's Whisper

Bloomberg researchers have refined Whisper's speech recognition to better handle real-time transcription.

VoiceVantage Puts Out Windows 2022 VoiceCheck SDK for Testing

Organizations can start testing THC's VoiceVantage Windows 2022 VoiceCheck SDK later this month.

Synthesia Relases Express-2 Models

Synthesia's Express-2 Voice and Express-2 Video models are the basis of its new avatars.

Spoken Launches Multi-Voice Audiobook Creation Platform

Spoken's new audiobook tech puts emotion and multi-voice narration capabilities in authors' hands.

Toki AI Launches AI Avatar Generator

Toki's AI avatar generator turns any photos into lifelike avatar videos.

Wondershare Unveils ToMoviee AI

Wondershare's ToMoviee AI is a one-stop AI platform for audio-video creation.

SoundHound AI Brings Voice Assistant to Jeep Vehicles In Europe

SoundHound's in-vehicle voice assistant, SoundHound Chat AI Automotive, comes to more Stellantis vehicles around the world.

The Speech and Voice Recognition Market to Be Worth $23.11 Billion by 2030

MarketsandMarkets projects 19 percent compound annual growth for the speech and voice recognition market for the next five years

Reality Defender Partners with Hume AI to Advance Responsible Voice AI Development

Reality Defender pairs its deepfake detection platform with real-time AI voice pioneer Hume AI to strengthen defenses against synthetic voice threats.

Sendbird Launches Voice AI

Sendbird Voice AI provides seamless integration with SMS, email, and chat for customer service.