Sam Altman stunned by banks' voice authentication, Elon Musk ponders AI's role in fulfilling human needs, OpenAI unveils gpt-realtime for low-latency speech-to-speech applications.
NotebookLM's Video Overviews, offering in-depth audio summaries, expand from English to over 80 languages worldwide, now available to all users.
NVIDIA unveils Granary, a groundbreaking dataset comprising 1 million hours of audio, propelling multilingual speech AI; Apple's Siri gains cross-app voice command capabilities; a guide empowers beginners to master voice cloning in just 11 minutes.
Otter.ai, a transcription service, faces a federal lawsuit alleging it secretly records and processes millions of private conversations without user consent to improve its AI systems, despite claiming to obtain permission through its privacy policy.
NVIDIA unveils Granary, a 1 million hour dataset spanning 25 languages, along with Canary-1b-v2 for multilingual speech recognition and translation, and Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 for real-time transcription, pushing boundaries in AI language models.
In a groundbreaking move, Hallwood Media inks record deal with AI music sensation Imoliver, the 'top-streaming music designer' on Suno platform, marking first time a Suno creator signs with label; Imoliver's hit 'Stone' with over 3 million Suno plays to hit streaming platforms on August 8.
SoundHound AI stock soars nearly 400% in late 2024 on voice AI hype and Amelia acquisition, but plunges 44% in 2025 as Nvidia exits and skeptics like Stone Fox Capital label it 'Strong Sell' citing inflated growth and valuation.
Meta acquires PlayAI as voice AI ignites fierce competition, fueling a surge in investment with companies racing to secure conversational AI capabilities through acquisitions of startups like ElevenLabs, Cresta, and Cartesia amid rapid technological advancements enabling natural voice interaction.
Mistral unveils Voxtral, a groundbreaking open source AI audio model offering affordable speech transcription and understanding capabilities for businesses, available in two variants for production and local deployments.
Meta bolsters its AI capabilities by acquiring Play AI, a startup that generates human-sounding voices using AI, aligning with Meta's roadmap for AI characters, Meta AI, wearables, and audio content creation.