ElevenLabs dropped ElevenAI at its 11/11 Summit, bundling meeting transcription, dictation, and autonomous agents to take on Granola and Fireflies.
Selma Ortiz · 2d ago · 4 min read
Meta's Muse agent can now dial businesses and wait on hold for you, but only if you pay for the premium tier. Here is what happens when bots pick up the phone.
Selma Ortiz · 2d ago · 5 min read
Celebrity headlines come and go, but synthetic voice infrastructure runs on raw silicon. ElevenLabs just deepened its Nvidia alliance, proving compute beats gossip.
Cass Iverson · 4d ago · 5 min read
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang quietly pulled out of ElevenLabs' flagship synthetic voice summit, leaving the voice unicorn to carry the stage alone amid widening chip controversy.
Tobias Reinholt · 5d ago · 5 min read
Anthropic dropped Claude Meetings on Google Meet, giving its model an active seat on corporate calls to draft plans, tweak spreadsheets, and build decks mid-sentence.
Devon Achebe · 5d ago · 5 min read
Otter AI rolls out automatic language detection across 31 tongues, letting global meeting attendees hop between dialects without touching a single drop-down menu.
Selma Ortiz · 5d ago · 6 min read
ElevenLabs has partnered with SoundCloud to put synthetic tracks and vocal audio directly in front of human listeners, bridging AI generation and mass streaming.
Selma Ortiz · 6d ago · 4 min read
Meta just turned Muse into a full video call companion for US users. With dedicated voice models and upcoming wearable hardware, the company wants you talking to screens again.
Nina Falco · 10d ago · 5 min read
Aina's $399 smart ring packs a screen, microphone, speaker, and analog stick to run voice agents from your knuckle. Here is why hardware makers want AI off your phone.
Nina Falco · 10d ago · 5 min read
ElevenLabs is dogfooding its own conversational agents across internal workflows, with CTO Piotr Dąbkowski betting developer efficiency will outrun rising compute bills.
Devon Achebe · 11d ago · 6 min read
Apple is testing ambient audio transcription on your wrist. Siri Recaps records daily chatter, logs transactions, and blurs the line between helpful utility and total surveillance.
Cass Iverson · 11d ago · 5 min read
ElevenLabs stepped onto Bloomberg to signal the end of novelty voice cloning. The next phase targets enterprise pipelines, live conversational agents, and zero-latency audio.
Cass Iverson · 11d ago · 5 min read
ElevenLabs wants to start IPO prep by 2028. That gives the synthetic voice frontrunner four years to build a durable enterprise moat.
Cass Iverson · 12d ago · 5 min read
Apple is rolling out conversational audio capture to developers. Live Rewind and Siri Recaps want to track your speech without igniting a privacy riot.
Devon Achebe · 12d ago · 5 min read
Slapping prescription lenses into Meta frames sounds like frictionless computing. Then the battery dies by lunchtime and courtrooms kick you out for wearing corrective glass.
Selma Ortiz · 13d ago · 6 min read
Amazon just disabled hands-free line-in switching on four classic Echo models, forcing owners back into phone menus to use copper audio cables.
Selma Ortiz · 14d ago · 4 min read
Amazon gave Alexa for Shopping control of your gift registries, recurring subscriptions, and refund disputes while locking out external bots from Meta and Perplexity.
Ray Dalton · 17d ago · 5 min read
Deepgram acquired Daily, the startup behind open-source framework Pipecat, uniting speech models with real-time transport infrastructure.
Nina Falco · 17d ago · 5 min read
Amazon added a 13MP camera to its flagship audio speaker, betting Alexa+ can turn your pantry inventory into retail transactions.
Ray Dalton · 18d ago · 5 min read
Synthflow just rolled out Vector, a long-horizon AI agent built for lending desks that refuses to hang up its workflow when the customer drops the line.
Devon Achebe · 18d ago · 4 min read
Deepgram is moving its voice AI models directly onto disconnected laptops. Cloud hyperscalers hate it. Enterprise security teams finally get speech tech without the surveillance.
Marla Quinn · 18d ago · 5 min read
Cloudera brought Neo4j's graph databases and Cartesia's low-latency voice models into its AI fold, aiming to give corporate data lakes an instant, spoken voice.
Cass Iverson · 18d ago · 5 min read
Retell runs 100 million voice calls a month and logs $1.6M in ARR per worker, proving voice AI prints cash when you keep payroll razor-thin.
Devon Achebe · 19d ago · 4 min read
ElevenLabs wants corporate call centers running on live voice translation. The move pits synthetic speech directly against human offshore support desks.
Selma Ortiz · 19d ago · 5 min read
Anthropic launched Claude Duet, turning its reasoning engine into an autonomous desktop worker. The move takes direct aim at legacy RPA and voice-driven software control.
Devon Achebe · 20d ago · 5 min read
Apple's 27.2 operating system updates give Siri conversation recall, deep file indexing, and five new languages across modern hardware.
Devon Achebe · 20d ago · 6 min read
Sassuolo forward Cristian Volpato just handed his voice, likeness, and biometric data to an AI agency. Athletes are realizing that if they don't sell their clones, someone else will steal them.
Selma Ortiz · 21d ago · 6 min read
Jack Dorsey's Block unveiled Dessa, an on-device speech-to-speech model trained on raw human audio that ditches text tokens, cuts cloud costs, and sounds uncomfortably real.
Tobias Reinholt · 22d ago · 5 min read
Voice banking once demanded days in a soundproof booth and delivered robotic mush. Modern synthetic audio models clone an ALS patient's real voice in minutes.
Cass Iverson · 22d ago · 5 min read
Nvidia just turned open-source robotics into an instant holiday sellout after Jensen Huang commanded a flock of voice-driven Microducks across the GTC Berlin stage.
Devon Achebe · 22d ago · 4 min read
Energize Lab got caught leaking voice transcripts, audio files, and photos from its Eiliko companion bot. Its apology claims fixes that do not exist yet.
Devon Achebe · 24d ago · 5 min read
Meta is reorganizing its future around an AI agent named Muse, pairing the technical pivot with a fresh stock plan to bankroll the staggering compute costs.
Ray Dalton · 24d ago · 5 min read
ElevenLabs just arranged a $300 million tender offer for its workforce. When an AI startup pays out real cash before an IPO, pay close attention to the cap table.
Cass Iverson · 24d ago · 5 min read
Meta's new voice agent Muse pulled ten million users in six weeks. Now Zuckerberg plans to monetize the compute with merchant fees, premium tiers, and smart glasses.
Tobias Reinholt · 25d ago · 5 min read
Deepgram moved heavy voice model workloads to AWS Trainium. The move cuts deep into Nvidia's margin buffer and rewires voice agent unit economics.
Marla Quinn · 25d ago · 5 min read
ElevenLabs used to sell realistic voices. Now it wants to run your entire conversational agent stack. Here is the bill you pay when convenience replaces control.
Nina Falco · 25d ago · 5 min read
Google is wiring Gemini straight into Android Auto with access to your emails, photos, and calendar. Just don't expect it to work in Europe.
Ray Dalton · 26d ago · 6 min read
ElevenLabs rolled out Eleven Realtime v1 Max and Mini with 0.57-second latency, targeting OpenAI's grip on live speech agents.
Devon Achebe · 26d ago · 5 min read
Mistral released Voxtral 3, offering sub-cent multilingual speech models and an agent SDK built to run inside European borders or on private iron.
Devon Achebe · 26d ago · 5 min read
Amazon is rolling Alexa+ into its Prime membership while pricing standalone access at an absurd twenty bucks a month. Here is the real play behind the bundle.
Ray Dalton · 26d ago · 5 min read
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