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Voice Agents: 5 AI articles covering voice agents news, analysis, and research
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Soniox STT v6 Adds Agent Text Input and Echo Filtering for Voice⭐8
Soniox STT v6 lets voice agents pass their own text into speech recognition to catch short replies and filter echo, available via cloud API at $0.12/hour stream...
AssemblyAI Launches AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character⭐7
AssemblyAI launches AssemblyAI-TTS-1, a $15 per 1M character text-to-speech API for voice agents, with low latency, unlimited concurrency, and no annual contrac...
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small⭐8
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B is an open 4GB small language model for local voice agents, game NPCs, and robots, running on RTX, Jetson, and Spark hardware.
Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming: The #1 Real⭐8
Microsoft AI's MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis for real-time speech-to-text, with 100ms partials for voice agents and live captions.
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex⭐9
Alibaba Qwen releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model for tool-calling agents, with audio API prices cut by up to 95%.