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Omilia Launches Lexis TTS Model for Contact Centers

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:48 GMT

Omilia Lexis is a voice synthesis model delivered inside Omilia's Conversational Platform.

Symend Launches SymendConverse

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:41 GMT

SymendConverse's agentic voice AI personalizes every inbound and outbound call to each customer's situation.

Callie Care Collects $500K for Voice AI Development

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:34 GMT

Callie Care startup aims to bring phone-first voice AI to millions of older adults aging alone at home.

AI Voice Agents Increase Specialty Care Program Enrollment

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Study finds?AI voice agents increased specialty care program enrollment 340 percent in real-world clinical settings.

Emotion Detection and Recognition Market to Be Worth $43.29 Billion by 2031

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:45 GMT

The emotion detection and recognition market is expected to grow by 8.2 percent through the next five years, MarketsandMarkets predicts.

SoundWise Launches Free Forever AI Audio and Video Transcription

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:43 GMT

SoundWise's browser-based AI transcription service combines unlimited free local processing, 10 times faster cloud transcription, support for 98 languages, and broad audio and video format compatibility without per-minute fees.

Retell AI Launches Conductor

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:17 GMT

Retell AI Conductor features a graph-native review interface for production voice agents.

Jon Taffer Launches Digital Coversational Twin

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Using Talk2Me's platform, hospitality expert gives advice in a conversational style with his own voice and tone.

Cash Flows in to Speech Company Coffers

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:15:00 GMT

Venture capital firms are investing heavily in speech vendors, signaling a reawakening of the voice interface market.

Timekettle Introduces X1 Meeting Interpreter Hub

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:43 GMT

Timekettle X1 Meeting Interpreter Hub brings real-time AI translation to global meetings of up to 50 participants.

Canary Speech Brings Canary Ambient to the Zoom App Marketplace

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:14 GMT

Canary Ambient on Zoom brings real-time vocal biomarker insights to telehealth visits.

TELUS Digital and ElevenLabs Partner to Scale Voice AI

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:06 GMT

Partnership with TELUS Digital brings voice AI ElevenAgents to enterprise customer experience.

Phone Calls Are Still Not Accessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Rogervoice survey finds 60 percent of Americans feel phone calls not accessible.

Vitally Therapy AI Launches AI Wellness App Featuring Live Avatar Video Conversations

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Vitally Therapy's new product is a complete conversational wellness hub.

AI Translation and Captioning Emerge at College Graduations

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:48:55 GMT

Wordly has seen increasing adoption of its translation and caption services during higher education graduations.

Vallige Introduces Val, a Smart Companion to Support Families Living with Dementia

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:34 GMT

Val is a voice-enabled companion to help dementia patients and their caregivers.

Bland Raises Funds to Advance Voice AI

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:29 GMT

Bland has surpassed $100 million in funding to advance Voice AI for complex, high-stakes conversations.

Klick Labs Partners with Mayo Clinic on Vocal Biomarker Research

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:20 GMT

Klick's clinical studies will involve multiple departments and study areas.

Krisp Launches Voice Translation v3

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:57 GMT

Krisp Voice Translation v3 is now self-serve via API, with new quality controls.

DentScribe Launches?DentScribe Perio Charting 3.0

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:23 GMT

DentScribe Perio Charting 3.0 is specifically designed to understand periodontal terminology and workflows.

Treble Technologies and Hugging Face Benchmark ASR Models

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:15 GMT

Treble and Hugging Face launch the Far Field ASR (FFASR) Leaderboard, a community-driven benchmark of ASR models under realistic far-field acoustic conditions.

Modulate Expands Velma with Voice-Native Real-Time Conversation Intelligence

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Modulate has released its flagship Velma model through its developer API.

Broadvoice Launches GoEngage and AI Analyst

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Broadvoice GoEngage and AI Analyst bring voice AI and conversational insights to GoContact. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

Eltropy Expands Voice Authentication Ecosystem with Illuma, IDgo, and Pindrop

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Eltropy is expanded its partnership ecosystem to expand voice authentication across consumer interactions for credit unions and community banks.

Greenhouse Acquires Ezra AI Labs

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:38 GMT

Greenhouse completes its acquisition of Ezra AI Labs, bringing conversational AI to the hiring process.

Clayfin Acquires Louie Voice

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:04 GMT

Clayfin expands into voice AI with its acquisition of Louie Voice.

BlueParrott Adds Voice Isolation to Headsets for Truck Drivers

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

BlueParrott Pro Series delivers noise cancellation so professional drivers can hear and be heard.

Deepgram Partners with Fortanix and NVIDIA

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Deepgram is delivering private voice AI to regulated industries with on-premises deployments powered by Fortanix Confidential AI and NVIDIA Confidential Computing.

Corti Launches Symphony for Speech-to-Text?

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:35 GMT

Corti's Symphony for Speech-to-Text models reduce word error rates by up to 93 percent.

Voxmind Emerges to Fill Voice Biometrics Void

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:02 GMT

Voice authentication startup Voxmind has closed a seed funding round to advance its technology as other vendors exit the market.

SwitchBot Launches Voice-Enabled KATA Friends

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:55 GMT

SwitchBot's KATA Friends are interactive AI pets that respond to voice and adapt to users over time.

Bloomberg Vault Integrates BSpeech Transcription

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:29 GMT

Bloomberg BSpeech in Vault unlocks multi-language voice transcription across 50+ languages for compliance professionals.

UneeQ Launches AI Buddy for Spoken Sales Coaching

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:22 GMT

Uneeq's AI Buddy is an AI digital human for face-to-face, spoken sales coaching in real time.

Kardome Voice AI Deployed in LG OLED TVs

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

LG TVs are now powered by Kardome's Spatial Hearing AI for human-like voice localization and isolation.

Stamp Launches Interactive Personal History Platform

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:51 GMT

Stamp lets people create interactive life stories in their own voices and images.

Grok Voice Mode Comes to Apple CarPlay

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:49 GMT

Elon Musk's voice tech provides an in-vehicle voice interface for Grok.

NordVPN Launches AI Voice Detector

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:39 GMT

NordVPN's AI Voice Detector for the Google Chrome browser analyzes audio locally on the user's device and identifies synthetic voices.

Adobe and Speechmatics Deliver Speech Recognition On-Device for Premiere

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:28 GMT

Adobe Premiere users can now run Speechmatics' on-device transcription locally.

Aircall Acquires Vogent

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Aircall acquires Vogent to advance its AI Voice Agent built natively into business phones.

Krisp Launches VIVA 2.0, an Infrastructure for Voice AI Agents?

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:12 GMT

Krisp's VIVA 2.0 real-time voice infrastructure suite is now predictive, multilingual, and built for real-world production audio.?

DomoAI Launches TTS and Integrates OpenAI's GPT Image 2.0 in Talking Avatar Workflow?

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:36 GMT

DomoAI's built-in text-to-speech feature helps companies voice and sync their talking avatars.

Yellow.ai Launches Nexus Vox

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:11 GMT

Yellow.ai's Nexus Vox is a voice AI that can clone any voice and deploy it across 500 languages in under a second.

Deepgram Launches Flux Multilingual

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:21 GMT

Deepgram Flux Multilingual now enables building AI voice agents in 10 languages.

Copperline Golf Launches AI Voice Caddy

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:59 GMT

Copperline Golf's AI Voice Caddy offers three voice personalities that turn any phone into a real-time caddy.

Betterness Launches Bett-i Voice-First Life-Coaching System

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:51 GMT

Bett-i is an autonomous life coach running through a series of voice-enabled AI agents.

RevolutionEHR Launches AI Scribe

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:26 GMT

RevolutionEHR's AI Scribe brings hands-free documentation to the optometry exam room.

Canary Speech Introduces Voice-Based Check-In for Mental Health

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Canary Speech's Voice-Based Check-In conducts a 45-second voice analysis to identify signals of stress, anxiety, and depression.

SpeakON Launches MagSafe AI Button

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:36 GMT

SpeakON's MagSafe AI Button turns voice input into text in iPhone apps.

DeepL Launches Voice-to-Voice?

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:25 GMT

DeepL Voice-to-Voice offers real-time spoken translation.

Deepdub Introduces Agentic Dubbing Co-Worker

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:24 GMT

Deepdub's AI dubbing co-worker delivers multi-lingual studio-grade quality inside its dubbing and localization workflows.