Startups
Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open
Voice AI company Deepgram has acquired Daily, the creator of the Pipecat framework.
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Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr
Meeting notetaker Granola is introducing a dictation feature to compete with Wispr.
Startups
Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
Deepgram has acquired Daily, the creator of Pipecat, to enhance its voice AI infrastructure.
AI
Regal debuts Goal Oriented Agents, putting an actor and a director model on every call
Regal Voice has added Goal Oriented Agents to its platform, using dual AI models to define call objectives and execute enterprise voice interactions.
AI
Google Cloud’s Gemini voice AI wants to do more than just talk
Google Cloud demonstrated how Gemini's voice AI can move beyond answering questions to executing business tasks like sales negotiations and restaurant bookings, powered by agentic capabilities.
AI
Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block has developed a new voice model with remarkably human-like qualities that can run locally on high-performance hardware like the MacBook M4 Max.
AI
Microsoft’s new voice AI can start working out what you want before you finish speaking
Microsoft unveiled three new AI models for voice applications that predict user intent before speech finishes, using incremental speech recognition to reduce latency in conversations.
AI
ElevenLabs Launches Real-Time Voice AI Models With Up to 98.8% Speech Reasoning Accuracy
ElevenLabs launches Eleven Realtime family of speech-to-speech AI models with up to 98.8% speech reasoning accuracy, offering variants for different conversational AI workloads.
Policy
Karnataka’s ElevenLabs Partnership Irks Indian Voice AI Startups
Karnataka's partnership with US-based voice AI company ElevenLabs for government services has frustrated Indian voice AI startups competing to build homegrown alternatives.