Speech Technology eWeekly - May 13, 2026

Speech Technology News

Grok Voice Mode Comes to Apple CarPlay

Elon Musk's voice tech provides an in-vehicle voice interface for Grok.

NordVPN Launches AI Voice Detector

NordVPN's AI Voice Detector for the Google Chrome browser analyzes audio locally on the user's device and identifies synthetic voices.

Adobe and Speechmatics Deliver Speech Recognition On-Device for Premiere

Adobe Premiere users can now run Speechmatics' on-device transcription locally.

Aircall Acquires Vogent

Aircall acquires Vogent to advance its AI Voice Agent built natively into business phones.

Krisp Launches VIVA 2.0, an Infrastructure for Voice AI Agents 

Krisp's VIVA 2.0 real-time voice infrastructure suite is now predictive, multilingual, and built for real-world production audio.