Voice-Only Outreach 'Structurally Misses' Gen Z and Millennial Debt Holders, Says Vodex AI CEO

AI-powered engagement should combine voice, SMS, email, and account intelligence to improve consumer engagement and resolution rates.

DeepL Acquires Mixhalo

DeepL adds Mixhalo's team and technology to accelerate voice AI at scale.

Deepgram Brings Nova-3 Speech Engine to Snapdragon Devices

Deepgram's Nova-3 speech-to-text model on PCs powered by Snapdragon delivers real-time voice experiences.

Canary Speech Partners with NeuroLexIQ

New collaboration embeds Canary Speech's vocal biomarker technology into NeuroLexIQ's Concussion Probability Report, flagging potential brain injuries at a client's very first contact.

Voiskey Officially Launches

Voiskey launches with an AI voice typing app focused on expression intelligence.

LALAL.AI Launches Lynx Voice Cleanup Mode

LALAL.AI Lynx is a speech denoising model that isolates voice and removes background music, street noise, and acoustic interference from voice recordings.

VoicePing Releases VoicePing 3.0

VoicePing 3.0 combines real-time translation, AI meeting minutes, voice output, terminology dictionaries, MCP/API access, QR-based event translation, file transcription, subtitles, AI dubbing, virtual office collaboration, enterprise administration, and new VoicePing ASR and MT models.

Modulate Tops Hugging Face's Transcription Benchmark

Modulate ranked #1 out of 88 speech-to-text models evaluated by Hugging Face for accuracy, speed, and cost.

Omilia Launches Lexis TTS Model for Contact Centers

Omilia Lexis is a voice synthesis model delivered inside Omilia's Conversational Platform.

Symend Launches SymendConverse

SymendConverse's agentic voice AI personalizes every inbound and outbound call to each customer's situation.

Study Proves Assistive Technologies Improve Users' Lives

Quality of life improvements and clear economic benefits follow assistive technology deployments, a study finds.

Callie Care Collects $500K for Voice AI Development

Callie Care startup aims to bring phone-first voice AI to millions of older adults aging alone at home.

AI Voice Agents Increase Specialty Care Program Enrollment

Study finds AI voice agents increased specialty care program enrollment 340 percent in real-world clinical settings.

Emotion Detection and Recognition Market to Be Worth $43.29 Billion by 2031

The emotion detection and recognition market is expected to grow by 8.2 percent through the next five years, MarketsandMarkets predicts.

SoundWise Launches Free Forever AI Audio and Video Transcription

SoundWise's browser-based AI transcription service combines unlimited free local processing, 10 times faster cloud transcription, support for 98 languages, and broad audio and video format compatibility without per-minute fees.

Retell AI Launches Conductor

Retell AI Conductor features a graph-native review interface for production voice agents.

Jon Taffer Launches Digital Coversational Twin

Using Talk2Me's platform, hospitality expert gives advice in a conversational style with his own voice and tone.

Cash Flows in to Speech Company Coffers

Venture capital firms are investing heavily in speech vendors, signaling a reawakening of the voice interface market.

Timekettle Introduces X1 Meeting Interpreter Hub

Timekettle X1 Meeting Interpreter Hub brings real-time AI translation to global meetings of up to 50 participants.

Canary Speech Brings Canary Ambient to the Zoom App Marketplace

Canary Ambient on Zoom brings real-time vocal biomarker insights to telehealth visits.