Speech Technology eWeekly - August 05, 2026

Speech Technology News

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.

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.