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Frontier Labs

Google Launches Three New Gemini Audio Models That Handle Jargon, Interruptions and 85 Languages

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, 3.5 Live and 3.5 Live Experimental are rolling out now, and the transcription model is a first for the Gemini family.

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AI Security

Google's new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe raises the bar for voice AI, and the risks that come with it

Google DeepMind's latest speech-to-text model is faster, sharper and multilingual. It also gives scammers a cleaner tool to work with.

4 min read
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AI Business

Ringg Expands Voice AI Capabilities with $10 Million Investment

Voice AI startup Ringg secures funding as it shifts to complex tasks beyond simple calls in India.

3 min read
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Explained

AI speech models are cheating on their own tests, new research finds

A study of 11 popular voice transcription systems found that several reproduce known errors from benchmark datasets, even when the audio says something different. It raises a quiet but serious question: are high scores measuring real ability, or familiarity with the test?

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AI Business

Wispr raises $280 million and sets its sights on meetings, not just dictation

The AI dictation startup is now valued at $2 billion and just launched a new voice model that it says will cut speech errors by two-thirds.

3 min read
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Robotics

Robots Can Move. They Can See. So Why Can't They Hold a Conversation?

Humanoid robots are impressive to watch, until you try talking to one. A specialist in audio AI explains why poor hearing and bad voice interaction could be the thing that stops robots from ever being widely accepted.

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Everyday AI

Microsoft Pulls Its Animated Blob Mico From Copilot Voice Mode

The yellow animated character, launched less than a year ago to give the chatbot a face, is being quietly moved off to a learning platform.

3 min read
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Frontier Labs

Google's Gemini app hits one billion monthly users, catching up with ChatGPT

Google's AI assistant has crossed a threshold that only 13 other Google products have ever reached. Here's what the numbers actually tell us.

3 min read
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Frontier Labs

NVIDIA's Free, Open Voice AI Now Speaks 12 Languages and Responds in Under a Tenth of a Second

A new version of NVIDIA's Magpie text-to-speech model adds Arabic, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese, and runs fast enough on your own hardware to keep voice assistants feeling natural.

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Everyday AI

Midnight Job Interviews Are Real, and AI Is Why They Exist

Millions of job seekers are now completing AI-run video interviews at 1 am. It solves a real scheduling problem. It also raises questions nobody is ready to answer.

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Everyday AI

The Robot at the Drive-Thru Window Is Back, and This Time It Might Stick

After a rocky first attempt, fast-food chains are quietly rolling AI voice ordering back out to millions of customers. A few are winning. A few are still figuring it out.

5 min read
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AI Business

Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build a voice AI that you cannot tell is a machine

The startup wants AI phone agents to sound so natural that callers never notice they are not speaking to a person. Here is how it plans to do that, and what it means for anyone who ends up on hold.

3 min read
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Frontier Labs

OpenAI Is Building a 'Family of Devices', Here Is What Greg Brockman Actually Said

The OpenAI president confirmed hardware is coming but gave no release date, no product names and no confirmation of the rumoured smart speaker. He did hint at voice becoming the main way people use computers.

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AI Business

Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Build Voice Agents That Learn From Your Best Sales Calls

The startup listens to thousands of real customer conversations, figures out what worked, and teaches an AI to copy those winning moves. Banks and insurers are already paying for it.

4 min read
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Everyday AI

Apple's New On-Device AI Voice Tech Makes Siri Sound More Human, Without Sending Your Audio to the Cloud

A research paper from Apple's machine learning team reveals the audio engine behind Siri's more expressive new voices. All the processing happens on your iPhone, using a chip you already have.

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