Speech Technology eWeekly - November 04, 2026

Speech Technology News

AudioLens Brings Audio Playback, Waveforms, and Spectrograms to VS Code

AudioLens lets speech and audio developers listen to recordings alongside per-channel waveforms and spectrograms in VS Code. 

Hume Launches Audio Decision API

Hume's Audio Decision API is a decision layer for speech and sound.

Speech Processing Solutions Launches Philips SpeechLive Legal Direct and Philips SpeechLive Professional Direct

Philips SpeechLive Legal Direct and Philips SpeechLive Professional Direct combine specialist speech recognition with familiar voice commands.

Rime Launches the Prism Speech-to-Speech Model 

Trained on millions of hours of human conversations, Rime's Prism gives companies total control over their voice models.

Deepgram Is Acquiring Daily, Makers of Pipecat

Together, Deepgram and Daily will offer a complete, production-ready, open stack for conversational voice AI.

Teleste Embeds Acapela AI Voices into S-ARRIVE

Teleste enables operators to deliver passenger information instantly with Acapela's latest AI voice technology.