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Ex-Nothing founders launch Relay Q, a $150 dictation mic aimed at keyboards
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Ex-Nothing founders launch Relay Q, a $150 dictation mic aimed at keyboards

The London startup's Gemini-powered voice-to-text app ships today on macOS; the dedicated hardware follows in early 2027.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Ringg raises $10M from Peak XV to push voice AI past the call center
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Ringg raises $10M from Peak XV to push voice AI past the call center

The Bengaluru startup now processes 20M call attempts a month and is chasing complex enterprise workflows over cheap outbound calling.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build small voice models that mimic human turn-taking
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Smallest.ai raises $13M to build small voice models that mimic human turn-taking

The India-founded startup is betting specialized voice models beat LLMs at real-time conversation, with RingCentral and Truecaller already on board.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Encore AI raises $30M to turn sales call transcripts into voice agents
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Encore AI raises $30M to turn sales call transcripts into voice agents

The Team8-led Series A backs a pitch that CRM giants can't easily copy: agents trained on which conversations actually closed.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Fish Audio raises $52M seed at $21M ARR for AI voice models
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Fish Audio raises $52M seed at $21M ARR for AI voice models

The Palo Alto startup has 8 million users and 15,000 natural-language voice controls, with three of its five models open-sourced.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI brings ChatGPT Voice to the desktop app with agent control

The macOS and Windows update lets users direct ChatGPT Work and Codex agents by voice, powered by the new GPT-Live model family.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode to run on Opus and Sonnet

Voice mode now taps Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, plus Gmail, Slack, and Notion — pushing past ChatGPT's tool-less voice.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Rime raises $24M Series A to handle enterprise customer calls
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Rime raises $24M Series A to handle enterprise customer calls

The voice AI startup says it is already processing more than 100 million calls a month for enterprise clients.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI updates ChatGPT voice mode to interrupt users less often

GPT-Live-1 replaces the older turn-based voice model with full-duplex audio that can listen while it speaks.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI ships GPT-Live-1, a full-duplex voice model that replaces Advanced Voice Mode

The new model listens and speaks simultaneously, routes to GPT-5.5 for reasoning, and now serves 150M weekly voice users.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Solos launches AirGo A6 smart glasses at 19 grams, skipping cameras for voice AI
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Solos launches AirGo A6 smart glasses at 19 grams, skipping cameras for voice AI

The camera-less AirGo A6 weighs roughly a third of Meta's latest glasses and leans entirely on a voice-driven AI assistant.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Amazon opens Alexa+ beta in India with Hindi support
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Amazon opens Alexa+ beta in India with Hindi support

The generative-AI assistant heads to a market of 600M Hindi speakers, with code-mixed Hindi-English handling as the technical test.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
DeepL acquires Mixhalo to push translation into live events
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DeepL acquires Mixhalo to push translation into live events

The German translation company buys the $39M-backed real-time audio startup and opens a Bay Area office to chase conferences and concerts.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
AethexAI raises $3M to build voice AI for Africa and Middle East dialects
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AethexAI raises $3M to build voice AI for Africa and Middle East dialects

Two ex-Goldman and Meta founders built sub-2B-parameter models from scratch to handle latency and dialects that ElevenLabs and Deepgram weren't designed for.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Spotify launches ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool for self-publishers
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Spotify launches ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool for self-publishers

The streaming platform will let authors generate audiobooks in-app starting June 2026, with no exclusivity required.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Rivian rolls out AI voice assistant to Gen 1 and Gen 2 owners
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Rivian rolls out AI voice assistant to Gen 1 and Gen 2 owners

The Rivian Assistant ties into vehicle hardware and apps like Google Calendar, gated behind a $15/month Connect Plus subscription.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Wispr Flow's India growth hits 100% as Hinglish voice push lands
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Wispr Flow's India growth hits 100% as Hinglish voice push lands

The Bay Area voice-input startup says India is now its second-largest market, with 14% of 2.5M global downloads and aggressive local pricing.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI adds GPT-Realtime-2, Translate and Whisper to its Realtime API

The new voice stack handles 70 input languages and 13 output languages, pushing the API beyond simple call-and-response.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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