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AI Startup Listen Labs Abandons $1.5B Funding Round Amidβ8
Listen Labs abandons $1.5B Series C as Salesforce acquisition talks for ~$2B heat up; future valuation may hit $2B if deal fails.
Gradium Launches Voice Design: Write a Prompt, Get a Brand Newβ8
Gradium Voice Design turns written descriptions into custom synthetic voices in secondsβno recording needed. Live on API and Studio with free tier access.
Gradium AI Launches New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Passβ7
Gradium AI launches a new default TTS model with an 81.0% hard-case pass rate, 216 ms time-to-first-audio, outperforming Cartesia and ElevenLabs.
Lowest-Latency Inference APIs for Voice and Realtime Agents: Aβ9
TTFT alone misleads voice AI latency benchmarks. This guide measures the full stackβSTT, LLM, TTS, and speech-to-speechβto reveal which inference APIs truly fee...
Ringg Secures Peak XV Backing as It Expands Voice AI Beyondβ9
Ringg raises $10M from Peak XV to expand AI voice agents beyond calls into healthcare, e-commerce, and fintech workflows.
AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Nextβ9
AI-powered voice bots are now handling drive-thru orders at major fast-food chains, with accuracy so high that customers often can't tell they're talking to a m...
Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast Voice AI That Soundsβ9
Smallest.ai secures $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI with human-like real-time conversation, reducing latency and transforming enterprise customer experience.
PolyAI's Dialog-RSN-1: An Audio-Native Dialog Model Combiningβ8
PolyAI's Dialog-RSN-1 fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, and response generation into one audio-native model, cutting latency by up to 37% in live calls.