Speech Technology News

Krisp Joins 8x8 Technology Partner Ecosystem

Integration brings AI-powered noise cancellation, accent conversion, and multilingual voice capabilities to the 8x8 Platform for CX

boost.ai Named an OpenAI Select Partner

Conversational AI provider boost.ai has joined OpenAI Partner Network as a Select Partner.

sensiBel Partners with Aizip for Improved Speech Quality

sensiBel's optical MEMS microphone augments Aizip's edge AI beamforming in smart glasses, earbuds, and industrial speech applications.

AudioCodes, AnywhereNow Certified by Microsoft

AudioCodes' Voca CIC and AnywhereNow's Tendfor voice products certified for Microsoft Teams.

Deepgram to Establish APAC Headquarters in Singapore

Deepgram deepens support across APAC; names former Salesforce leader Sriram Ved to lead the region.

Deepgram Launches Flux TTS

Flux TTS, the newest model in Deepgram's Flux family, brings conversation-native speech to enterprise voice agents in production.

Researchers Propose Alternatives to Word-Error Rate

WER improperly weighs all words in a sentence the same, researchers assert.

Insta360 Launches AI Voice Assistant for GO Ultra

Ask by Voice turns the Go Ultra into a voice assistant for travelers with real-time translation, voice and photo Q&A.

ElevenLabs Launches Dubbing v2 API

ElevenLabs' Dubbing v2 now provides direct speech-to-speech AI dubbing across 92 languages.

Speech Processing Solutions Launches Philips SpeechLive Legal AI Assistant

New SpeechLive Legal AI Assistant enables customizable document drafting powered by speech recognition tuned for legal terminology.

Modulate Partners with Scam.ai for Voice Fraud Detection

Integration brings Modulate's synthetic voice detection to the Scam.ai platform, helping organizations identify multimodal deepfake threats through a single customer experience.

Rosetta Stone Launches Sapphire Language Learning Tool

Rosetta Stone Sapphire combines its Dynamic Immersion method and TruAccent speech recognition technology.

Vidy Launches Real-Time Video AI Characters for Personalized Conversations and Storytelling

Vidy is introducing a new generation of AI interaction powered by real-time video, voice, and conversational intelligence.

Concern Grows Over AI-Powered Voice Attacks, Mutare Survey Finds

New research finds growing enterprise risk and increasing recognition that voice security must become part of every organization's cybersecurity strategy.

PolyAI Launches Dialog-RSN-1 Model

PolyAI's Dialog-RSN-1 is a dialog model that directly perceives the user's audio and fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling, and response.

Smallest.ai Gets $21 Million to Build Voice 4.0

Smallest.ai's Voice 4.0 and Hydra form an asynchronous AI architecture to make AI conversations as natural, responsive, and scalable as human dialogue.

Fish Audio Raises $52 Million in Seed Funding

Funding will help Fish Audio expand its model lineup beyond text-to-speech into the full audio-native stack.

Voicelyt Launches Voice Score

As remote work and video calls drive rising vocal strain, Voicelyt offers instant, data-backed insight into vocal health.

OrcaRouter Launches OrcaDub

OrcaDub is a speech-to-speech video dubbing model for natural multilingual localization.

Deliverect Partners with SoundHound AI

Deliverect and SoundHound AI partner to turn voice into a fully automated ordering channel for restaurants.