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Suno adds watermarks to AI music, seeks legal ground amid lawsuits

Suno is implementing watermarks on AI-generated music and tightening rules against misuse, including limits on…

Ars Technica AIAug 6, 2026

Suno plans watermarking and download limits to curb spam AI music

Suno announced new watermarking and fingerprinting technology, along with updated download policies, to limit…

The Verge AIAug 6, 2026

Open-source iOS app runs speech AI models fully offline on iPhone

A developer has built LiveTranscriber, an open-source iOS app that runs speech and language models entirely on…

r/MachineLearningAug 5, 2026

Wispr Adds Meeting Recorder, Joining AI Notetaker Rush

Wispr Flow, a voice dictation startup, launched Notetaker, a feature that transcribes meetings in real time us…

WIRED AIAug 5, 2026

OpenAI bets voice will replace typing; Brockman: clicking is 'a phase'

OpenAI president Greg Brockman said at a media roundtable on July 23 that voice will be the interface of the f…

Fortune AIAug 4, 2026

Wrinkles app turns phone into AI audio tour guide for local stories

Wrinkles, available on iOS and Android, uses location data to automatically surface audio stories about places…

TechCrunch AIAug 4, 2026

Spotify expands AI remix tool with Merlin, bringing 30,000+ independent labels

Spotify announced during its Q2 earnings call that Merlin, a licensing partner for independent labels and dist…

TechCrunch AIAug 4, 2026

OpenAI's GPT-Live Removes Turn Detector for Real-Time Voice

OpenAI detailed GPT-Live, its third-generation voice system, which removes the turn detector from the audio pa…

OpenAI BlogAug 3, 2026

AGIBOT's audio-visual model tops Daily-Omni benchmark at 85.21%

AGIBOT's WITA-Omni Preview foundation model achieved an average accuracy of 85.21 percent on the Daily-Omni au…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 3, 2026

Smallest.ai raises $13M for voice AI that mimics human conversation in real time

Smallest.ai, founded in late 2024, raised $13 million in a Series A round led by Seligman Ventures, with parti…

TechCrunch AIJul 31, 2026

Friend AI pendant returns at $249, adds voice—double the original price

Friend, the AI pendant startup, relaunched its product with a built-in speaker that can talk to users, raising…

The Verge AIJul 30, 2026

Fish Audio raises $52M to build human-sounding AI voices

Fish Audio, an AI startup founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao, raised $52 million in seed funding…

SiliconANGLE AIJul 30, 2026

Google's Lyria 3.5 lets users edit song sections without restarting

Google released Lyria 3.5, a music generation model that produces more natural-sounding melodies, better lyric…

THE DECODERJul 29, 2026

OpenAI's GPT Transcribe improves 0.7 points but trails ElevenLabs, Google, Mistral

OpenAI released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two speech recognition models via its API

THE DECODERJul 29, 2026

OpenAI launches GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe

OpenAI has introduced two new models, GPT-transcribe and GPT-live-transcribe, focused on speech-to-text

Hacker NewsJul 29, 2026

Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models

Palo Alto-based Fish Audio, which has over 8 million users and generates $21 million in annual recurring reven…

TechCrunch AIJul 28, 2026

Japan's Justice Ministry backs civil liability for unauthorized AI voice use

An expert committee of Japan's Justice Ministry approved a draft report Monday establishing that unauthorized…

Japan Times TechJul 28, 2026

30%+ of new podcasts are AI-generated, Listen Notes finds

Listen Notes, a podcast search database, reports that over 30% of newly created podcasts consist of AI-generat…

Hacker NewsJul 28, 2026

Deepgram integrates AWS IAM temporary delegation for SageMaker support access

Deepgram has integrated IAM temporary delegation, a new AWS IAM capability, into its support workflow for cust…

Amazon AI BlogJul 27, 2026

Ex-AWS scientist targets OpenAI, Meta with cheaper voice AI startup

Alex Smola, former distinguished scientist at Amazon, founded Boson AI to release Higgs RealTime, a speech-to-…

Fortune AIJul 27, 2026

ARIA voice-native 3D SOC platform launches under source-available license

A developer has released ARIA, a voice-controlled security operations cockpit (SOC) that runs on local hardwar…

Hacker NewsJul 26, 2026

OpenAI adds voice control to ChatGPT desktop app

OpenAI updated its ChatGPT desktop app on Thursday to support ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to speak commands…

TechCrunch AIJul 24, 2026

Claude voice mode expands to Opus, Sonnet across all platforms

Anthropic expanded Claude's voice mode to its Opus and Sonnet models (previously limited to Haiku), with the a…

THE DECODERJul 24, 2026

OpenAI brings ChatGPT Voice to desktop, hands-free task automation

OpenAI has released ChatGPT Voice on desktop and laptop computers, extending the GPT Live voice technology it…

Fortune AIJul 23, 2026

Skipper: offline AI assistant for boats, remote homes, vehicles

Skipper is an AI companion designed to work without internet, offering voice interaction, custom memory, HD vi…

Hacker NewsJul 23, 2026

Claude's voice mode expands to Opus and Sonnet models

Anthropic has made its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode—until now limited to the lighter Haiku m…

The Verge AIJul 23, 2026

Claude voice mode now supports three models, integrates Gmail, Slack, Notion

Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode to let users choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models, with the mod…

TechCrunch AIJul 23, 2026

Black Forest Labs releases Flux 3 with native audio video generation

German AI company Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, vi…

THE DECODERJul 23, 2026

Komatsu tests voice AI for equipment maintenance

SORABITO and Eleven Labs have built an interactive voice AI system that diagnoses equipment faults from verbal…

Top Companies AIJul 22, 2026

Deezer: AI tracks now over 50% of daily uploads

Music streaming platform Deezer announced that AI-generated music now represents more than 50% of daily upload…

TechCrunch AIJul 21, 2026

Sony sues Udio over 30,000 copyrighted songs

Sony Music Entertainment filed a new lawsuit in New York against AI music generator Udio on Monday, claiming i…

The Verge AIJul 21, 2026

Suno AI music finally doesn't sound terrible—here's why

Artist 1010Benja released a song called "Semiramis' Dream" on his latest EP using Suno generative AI, but in a…

The Verge AIJul 19, 2026

Suno trained AI on millions of songs scraped from YouTube, Genius, Deezer

A hacking incident exposed that Suno, an AI music generator, scraped millions of songs and lyrics from online…

The Verge AIJul 15, 2026

Suno AI music tool hacked; source code reveals YouTube scraping

The AI music generator Suno was hacked via a supply chain attack that exposed source code showing the platform…

TechCrunch AIJul 15, 2026

Spotify adds chat feature for Premium subscribers to control music with voice and text

Spotify is rolling out a conversational AI interface for Premium subscribers, allowing them to control playbac…

THE DECODERJul 15, 2026

Hugging Face launches voice AI benchmark measuring human perception, not just speed

Hugging Face introduced Real World VoiceEQ, a benchmark that evaluates more than 40 voice models across 15+ di…

Hugging Face BlogJul 15, 2026

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Telnyx launches AI phone agent for real-time price quotes

Telnyx released an open-source Python application (102 lines) that uses Telnyx Call Control and Llama 3.3 70B…

Hacker NewsJul 15, 2026

ScienceSoft builds HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler on AWS

AWS Partner ScienceSoft has built a HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduling assistant using Amazon Nova Sonic and…

Amazon AI BlogJul 14, 2026

Apple Expands Siri Into All-Purpose iPhone Assistant

Apple released iOS 27 as a public beta, making the revamped "Siri AI" available to iPhone users for the first…

WIRED AIJul 14, 2026

OpenAI launches GPT-Live voice models, plans GPT-5.6 broad release

OpenAI introduced GPT-Live, a family of voice-optimized AI models powering ChatGPT's voice mode

SiliconANGLE AIJul 10, 2026

OpenAI upgrades voice mode; Grok 4.5 launches

OpenAI released an upgraded voice mode described as a step change, and Grok 4.5 became available

LessWrong AIJul 10, 2026

Paris AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, expands to Bay Area

Gradium, a Paris-based startup building voice AI models, closed its seed round at $100 million(約160億円) total…

TechCrunch AIJul 9, 2026

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT voice with full-duplex model that listens and speaks simultaneously

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-Live-1, a new voice model for ChatGPT that can listen and speak at the same time, re…

The Verge AIJul 8, 2026

OpenAI releases full-duplex voice models for longer, more natural ChatGPT conversations

OpenAI released two new conversational voice models—GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini—that can speak and listen s…

TechCrunch AIJul 8, 2026

Cohere releases open-source Arabic speech-to-text model

Cohere released Cohere Transcribe Arabic, a 2-billion-parameter open-source model for Arabic speech recognitio…

THE DECODERJul 7, 2026

Speech Recognition Gets 2.8x Faster With Simpler Decoder Change

Researchers found that speech recognition systems waste compute processing silence instead of speech

Daily Dose of Data ScienceJul 2, 2026

Revin AI agents now live across Vertex roofing platform

Revin, an AI voice and SMS platform, launched its agents across Vertex Service Partners' portfolio of 27 regio…

Top Companies AIJul 1, 2026

Hugging Face and Cerebras demo real-time voice AI with low latency

Hugging Face and Cerebras demonstrated a speech-to-speech AI pipeline that combines open-source models—Nvidia'…

Hugging Face BlogJul 1, 2026

Netflix uses AI-generated Gene Wilder voice for Wonka reality show

Netflix is premiering Wonka's The Golden Ticket on September 23rd, a reality competition based on the fictiona…

The Verge AIJun 30, 2026

Jamendo sues Suno over alleged unauthorized use of music in AI training

Jamendo SA, a subsidiary of Winamp Group, filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts against Suno, Inc., allegin…

Yahoo Finance AIJun 30, 2026

AI Voice Studio launches a free-to-start tool that lets creators generate natural voiceovers in 70+ languages without recording equipment or waiting for voice talent.

AI Voice Studio is now available, allowing creators to convert scripts into studio-quality voiceovers across 7…

Hacker NewsJun 20, 2026

Whissle Gateway lets businesses run voice AI—including speech recognition, speaker identification, and sales coaching analysis—entirely on their own servers in a 500MB Docker container.

Whissle released a containerized voice AI system that performs automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-spe…

Hacker NewsJun 13, 2026

Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a real-time audio translation model supporting over 70 languages

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is available now for developers through the Gemini Live API and Google AI Studio, as…

THE DECODERJun 9, 2026

ElevenLabs signs Memorandum of Understanding with UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to deploy voice AI in public services; company doubles UK headcount to 200 and expands London headquarters.

ElevenLabs and the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) agreed to collaborate on thre…

ElevenLabs BlogJun 8, 2026

Apple introduces Siri AI with multi-step conversational abilities and Google-powered model update, rolling out this fall

At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced 'Siri AI'—an updated voice assistant coming in OS upda…

Ars Technica AIJun 8, 2026

Researchers develop three-billion-parameter model that listens continuously to audio and decides every 0.4 seconds whether to speak, handling translation, transcription, and sound recognition simultaneously

Audio-Interaction, created by researchers from China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, processes continuous audio str…

THE DECODERJun 6, 2026

AI voice customer service struggles with recognition and user trust despite technological progress

ElevenLabs demonstrated a voice-powered robot at a New York pop-up that took coffee orders and prepared drinks…

Semafor TechJun 5, 2026

AethexAI, founded by ex-Goldman and ex-Meta executives, raises $3 million to build voice AI for Africa and the Middle East

AethexAI raised $3 million in pre-seed funding led by 4DX Ventures, with participation from Enza Capital, Dorm…

TechCrunch AIJun 3, 2026

AI music startup Suno raises $400 million at $5.4 billion valuation, doubling its worth in seven months

Suno raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, double its valuation from seven months ago

THE DECODERJun 3, 2026

SoundHound AI stock rises 5.7% after Snowflake earnings show AI driving more platform consumption, not replacing software

Snowflake reported that AI accounts on its platform jumped from 9,100 to 13,600 in a single quarter, product r…

Yahoo Finance AIMay 29, 2026

AI voice generator market projected to reach USD 20.71 billion by 2031, growing at 30.7% CAGR from USD 4.16 billion in 2025

The AI voice generator market is set to achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.7% over the forecas…

Yahoo Finance AIMay 27, 2026

Suno users report listening almost exclusively to their own AI-generated music instead of songs by professional artists

Users in the Suno subreddit describe a pattern of consuming primarily their own AI-generated music over tradit…

The Verge AIMay 26, 2026

Stripe developer relations leaders James Beswick and Peter Epstein are authors of an article titled 'You can't whisper at an AI agent'

James Beswick leads the Stripe Developer Relations team and was previously a Developer Advocacy leader at AWS

Hacker NewsMay 24, 2026

Amazon SageMaker AI and vLLM enable real-time speech-to-text via bidirectional streaming, starting November 2025

Starting November 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI supports bidirectional streaming for real-time inference, allowing…

Amazon AI BlogMay 20, 2026

Stability AI launches Stable Audio 3.0 with models generating up to six-minute tracks, three variants released as open weights

Stability AI unveiled Stable Audio 3.0, a family of four audio models

THE DECODERMay 20, 2026

Stability AI releases Stability Audio 3.0 with models capable of generating six-minute songs

Stability AI released four new audio models under the Stability Audio 3.0 name: small SFX (459M parameters), s…

TechCrunch AIMay 20, 2026

ElevenLabs launches professor access program and recreates Albert Einstein's voice for interactive learning

ElevenLabs is offering professors free access to its Pro tier and the ability to provide time-bound access to…

ElevenLabs BlogMay 19, 2026

Thinking Machines Lab releases its first AI model with native interactivity, claiming it outperforms OpenAI's GPT-Realtime-2 and Google's Gemini Live on interaction quality

Thinking Machines Lab, founded in February 2025 by Mira Murati and other former OpenAI researchers, published…

THE DECODERMay 12, 2026

Rivian's AI-powered voice assistant rolls out to vehicle owners via software update

Rivian is releasing its Rivian Assistant to all compatible Gen 1 and Gen 2 vehicle owners who subscribe to Con…

The Verge AIMay 12, 2026

Lightweight voice gender classifier for European languages released: 0.64 MB ONNX model runs in ~4 ms on CPU

A Bi-LSTM gender classifier model (166K parameters, 0.64 MB) designed for real-time voice AI pipelines support…

Hacker NewsMay 12, 2026

Vapi raises $50 million Series B at $500 million valuation after Amazon Ring chose it over 40 rivals to handle all inbound customer calls

Amazon Ring evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors before selecting Vapi to route 100% of its inbound calls t…

TechCrunch AIMay 12, 2026

Wispr Flow expands India operations with Hinglish voice model and aggressive hiring as the country becomes its second-largest market

Wispr Flow, a Bay Area-headquartered startup building AI-powered voice input software, began beta testing a Hi…

TechCrunch AIMay 10, 2026

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