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Updated: Oct 9, 2026

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ChatGPT adds audio uploads for transcription and summaries

OpenAI began offering a ChatGPT feature that accepts uploaded audio files and can transcribe them, summarize t…

Impress WatchOct 9, 2026

NECネクサソリューションズ launches DEN.Ai voice agent

NECネクサソリューションズ started offering "対話型音声AIエージェント Powered by DEN.Ai" on 2026年10月6日

Top Companies AIOct 8, 2026

Automation Anywhere to acquire Boost.ai for voice AI push

Automation Anywhere announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai, a conversational voice AI company, f…

SiliconANGLE AIOct 8, 2026

Willow taps CoreWeave Inc. for AI training support

Willow Care Inc., maker of the AI dictation app Willow Voice, picked CoreWeave Inc

SiliconANGLE AIOct 8, 2026

Abu Dhabi's TII releases Falcon-Emirati dialect AI models

Abu Dhabi's state-run Technology Innovation Institute released Falcon-Emirati models trained on the Emirati Ar…

Semafor TechOct 8, 2026

Google opens SynthID Detector to all, limits remain

Google LLC launched the web-based SynthID Detector, which flags AI-made images, video and audio from Google, O…

SiliconANGLE AIOct 8, 2026Also reported by GIGAZINE AI

FCC weighs more political robocalls before midterms

The FCC is considering allowing more political robocalls before the midterms, including those created with AI

AP News AIOct 7, 2026

Google launches Playground for text-to-game creation

Google launched Playground, a browser-based AI platform that lets adults in the US create games using only tex…

THE DECODEROct 7, 2026

Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe adds speaker separation

Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, launched in August 2026, is a transcription-only model that separates speakers…

Zenn AI/MLOct 7, 2026

ELYZA launches ELYZA RSI Research to chase self-improving AI

ELYZA announced ELYZA RSI Research at a Tokyo press conference on October 2, 2026, and also showed ELYZA Voice…

ITmedia AI+Oct 7, 2026Also reported by Top Companies AI

Kikuren swaps to gpt-live-1, ends backchannel stopping

After GPT-Live (gpt-live-1) GA'd on September 10, 2026, the Kikuren developer swapped out gpt-realtime-2.1, an…

Zenn AI/MLOct 5, 2026

Streaming STT cuts AI voice reply to p50 1.594 seconds

The developer added Nemotron 3.5 Streaming ASR 0.6B 560ms INT8 to the Koehaku voice runtime, and a 100-turn te…

Zenn AI/MLOct 4, 2026

Sean Parker rebuilds Stability AI around music with $76 million

Sean Parker and Prem Akkaraju are rebuilding Stability AI as a music toolmaker; in late August it announced $7…

TechCrunch AIOct 3, 2026

Microsoft, LG put Voice Live AI into ThinQ ON hub

Microsoft and LG Electronics unveiled a Speech-to-Speech AI agent at the Microsoft Industry Summit in Seoul, e…

Yahoo Finance AIOct 2, 2026

Suno adds Speech for spoken audio with music

Suno, the AI music generator, launched a feature called Speech that turns typed text into spoken words with ma…

THE DECODEROct 2, 2026

AI covers: RVC (MIT, still updated) leads as rivals archiving

An explainer describes AI song covers as original melody, lyrics and backing kept intact, with only the vocals…

Qiita 機械学習Oct 2, 2026

Language discrimination lifts multilingual speech AI to 10.4% error

In a controlled English/French HuBERT setting, two interventions — an auxiliary language classifier and per-la…

Apple Machine LearningOct 2, 2026Also reported by Top Companies AI

Microsoft AI's MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming tops accuracy, 100ms latency

Microsoft AI launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, which Microsoft says ranks first for accuracy on Artificial…

THE DECODEROct 2, 2026

Suno's Speech enters public beta, adds voice to AI music

Suno launched Speech in public beta across its web and mobile platforms, letting users generate voiceovers and…

The Verge AIOct 2, 2026

Microsoft debuts MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming at 54 cents per audio hour

Microsoft launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first streaming transcription model, priced at 54 cents per…

SiliconANGLE AIOct 2, 2026

Microsoft AI unveils first streaming transcription model MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming

Microsoft AI said it released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, which returns provisional results in just over 100 m…

ITmedia AI+Oct 2, 2026

Microsoft debuts MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming at No. 1

Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming on October 1, 2026

GIGAZINE AIOct 2, 2026

Starkey's Omega AI+ runs four neural nets at once

Starkey announced Omega AI+, succeeding last year's Omega AI

Fortune AIOct 1, 2026

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: agents Muse and Instinct fail at booking

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said he has used Airbnb on the agents Muse and Instinct and "it doesn't work very well…

TechCrunch AIOct 1, 2026

Creatune splits AI covers into Voice and Style tracks

Creatune's Alex wrote that the current AI cover screen offers two paths — a Voice Cover, which keeps the song'…

Zenn AI/MLOct 1, 2026

Qwen3 backs 20 audio model families in audio.cpp map

A Reddit analysis of audio.cpp mapped shared building blocks across 100+ audio models

r/MachineLearningOct 1, 2026

MeetTwins: AI bot attends Google Meet calls for you

Aditya Shinde is recruiting beta users for MeetTwins, an AI assistant built with Sarvam's AI models and a Siml…

The Register (AI/ML)Sep 30, 20261 question

ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22 billion in $300 million tender

ElevenLabs let employees sell a portion of their vested shares at a $22 billion valuation, double the $11 bill…

TechCrunch AISep 30, 2026

Hugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard cuts eval from weeks to hours

Hugging Face launched the Open TTS Leaderboard, ranking models by word error rate (WER/CER), H200 GPU speed me…

Hugging Face BlogSep 30, 2026

Claude Code AWS cost probe tops GENIEE Tech Blog reads

GENIEE's tech blog team named its three most-read posts from September 2025 to September 2026, led by an SRE t…

Zenn AI/MLSep 30, 2026

Local speech-to-speech replies in 2.37s, LLM eats 1.36s

Running Hugging Face's speech-to-speech all-local on an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, reply audio began on average 2…

Zenn AI/MLSep 30, 2026

Tokyo court dismisses Kenjiro Tsuda AI voice case

The Tokyo District Court dismissed Kenjiro Tsuda's demand that TikTok remove AI voice-clone videos, citing pri…

Japan Times TechSep 30, 2026

DeepL Voice adds live speech-to-speech translation

DeepL opened general availability of real-time speech-to-speech translation in DeepL Voice, supported by a new…

Impress WatchSep 30, 2026

Eleven v4 lands with a fast Turbo mode for voice agents

ElevenLabs released Eleven v4, which handles up to 10,000 characters per request and supports more than 90 lan…

THE DECODERSep 29, 2026

AHS ships Synthesizer V 2 AI Nanami and AI Kohki at 9,680 yen

AHS launched two voice databases for Synthesizer V 2 on September 29 — the female Synthesizer V 2 AI Nanami an…

AI Watch (Impress)Sep 29, 2026

NTT West's VOICENCE opens voice-AI consultation desk Sept 28, 2026

NTT West's VOICENCE company said it will open a free "Voice Consultation Desk" on September 28, 2026

Top Companies AISep 28, 2026

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AWS streams Qwen3-TTS audio via vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI

AWS published Part 1 of a tutorial that deploys Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI using the vLLM-Omni Deep Lear…

Amazon AI BlogSep 28, 2026

Modulate raises $25M to push audio-native AI to developers

Modulate raised $25 million, led by Future Ventures with returning investors Hyperplane and Lakestar, bringing…

SiliconANGLE AISep 28, 2026

Eleven v4 launches as #1-ranked emotive voice model

ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 and low-latency Eleven v4 Turbo, ranked #1 by Artificial Analysis and preferred…

ElevenLabs BlogSep 28, 2026

DetectifAI's on-device deepfake voice detection enters Startup Battlefield

Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI after a deepfake of her grandfather's brother's voice tricked him into…

TechCrunch AISep 28, 2026

Google adds Live Avatar to Gemini 3.8 Live, live in Gemini Enterprise

Google said its Gemini 3.8 Live voice model now has a Live Avatar feature, and that Live Avatar-equipped Gemin…

AI Watch (Impress)Sep 28, 2026

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Voice to connected apps

OpenAI said on 9月24日 that ChatGPT Voice on mobile and web can now handle work using connected apps and tools…

AI Watch (Impress)Sep 28, 2026

Google unveils Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS voice models

Google announced Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, text-to-speech models that recreate a voi…

AI Watch (Impress)Sep 28, 2026

Notta Memo Pro: thin AI recorder auto-transcribes and summarizes

Notta's "Notta Memo Pro" is an AI voice recorder (a device that records and automatically converts speech to t…

Impress WatchSep 28, 2026

Google unveils Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Live Avatar

Google announced voice-generation models Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, plus Gemini 3.8 L…

Impress WatchSep 28, 2026

Nvidia's free Nemotron 3 Diarization model separates 8 speakers

Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Diarization, a free AI model with about 100 million parameters that identifies up t…

THE DECODERSep 27, 2026

Kenjiro Tsuda sues TikTok over AI clone of his voice

Voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda sued TikTok over videos he says use an AI clone of his "lustrous" baritone

Japan Times TechSep 27, 2026

Synthesia builds first journalist avatar, trained on one story

Synthesia, a digital avatar startup valued at $4 billion, made an interactive avatar for a TechCrunch reporter…

TechCrunch AISep 26, 2026

McDonald's unveils "Archy" AI drive-thru amid sales slump

McDonald's unveiled "Archy," an English- and Spanish-speaking AI drive-thru system it says exceeds 90% accurac…

Semafor TechSep 25, 2026

AWS ships Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base voice cloning on SageMaker JumpStart

AWS detailed deploying Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base from Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart…

Amazon AI BlogSep 25, 2026

Sony, UMG sue Suno again over v6 training data

Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno, saying its v6 model is trained on user out…

The Verge AISep 25, 2026

Google tests "Call for Me" on Pixel 11

Google is testing "Call for Me," letting Gemini call businesses for US Pixel 11 owners with a paid Gemini subs…

THE DECODERSep 25, 2026Also reported by The Verge AI

AWS ships WhisperX container for SageMaker AI

AWS released the WhisperX Deep Learning Container, a GPU-ready image bundling Whisper, wav2vec2 forced alignme…

Amazon AI BlogSep 25, 2026

Apple studies distillation to compress System-wide Dictation tokenizer

Apple researchers studied how to compress the tokenizer behind System-wide Dictation, the on-device encoder th…

Apple Machine LearningSep 25, 2026

Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS tops Hume AI benchmark

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS on its cloud platform, with Flash TTS supporting 130 l…

SiliconANGLE AISep 24, 2026

'Wonka's the Golden Ticket' AI voice panned as lifeless

Netflix premieres "Wonka's the Golden Ticket" on Wednesday, a reality competition based on the 1971 film, usin…

Top Companies AISep 23, 2026

Google drops Gemini 3.8 TTS with 2,000 voices

Google released gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts, offering over 2,000 voices and custom voic…

Simon Willison's WeblogSep 23, 2026

Google rolls out Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS voice models

Google is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, sup…

THE DECODERSep 23, 2026Also reported by ITmedia AI+

ChatGPT Voice taps GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna for email, Slack

ChatGPT Voice now runs on OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and can access plugins like email, ca…

THE DECODERSep 23, 2026

YouTube Music adds Ask Music, Podcast Lineup AI tools

At its Made On YouTube event, YouTube announced Ask Music, a conversational tool built into the YouTube Music…

TechCrunch AISep 23, 2026

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Diarization tops VoiceArena at 14.72% DER

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight, 100M-parameter model that ranks #1 on VoiceArena's Dia…

Hugging Face BlogSep 23, 2026

Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.1 cuts audio AI prices up to 95 percent

Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen-Audio-3.1, five models for speech recognition, text-to-speech and real-time inter…

THE DECODERSep 23, 2026

YuE2 music AI rivals Suno as Sony's Hakken mines papers

A weekly roundup covers five new generative AI technologies, including YuE2, a music generator compared with S…

Top Companies AISep 20, 2026

Tencent's Gander interrupts users in just 8 percent of cases, beats GPT-Realtime

Tencent's Hunyuan Speech team and university researchers introduced Gander, which splits real-time conversatio…

THE DECODERSep 20, 2026

McDonald's revives Archy AI at drive-thrus after 2024 shutdown

McDonald's unveiled ArchIQ and its Archy voice assistant in limited testing at a handful of US drive-thrus, af…

Top Companies AISep 18, 2026

Treble raises $18 million for voice simulation platform

Treble raised $18 million in a Series A extension led by Paladin Capital Group, with KOMPAS VC, Frumtak Ventur…

TechCrunch AISep 17, 2026

Spotify set to change course on AI music labeling

Spotify and industry groups are moving to label, restrict or ban AI-generated tracks, after the New York Times…

Japan Times TechSep 17, 2026

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live for real-time voice

Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15 and began offering them…

ITmedia AI+Sep 16, 2026Also reported by SiliconANGLE AI

Gemini 3.8 Live tops speech leaderboard at 82.6%

Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking via the Gemini API and Google AI Studi…

THE DECODERSep 15, 2026Also reported by Simon Willison's Weblog

Google's AI now speaks 300 languages for 7 billion people

Google says its products now support more than 300 languages used by over 7 billion people, 86% of the global…

Google AI BlogSep 15, 2026

Nuance Labs raises $50M to fix awkward AI avatars

Nuance Labs, a Seattle startup led by ex-Apple researcher Fangchang Ma, closed a $50 million Series A led by L…

SiliconANGLE AISep 15, 2026

Mitsubishi Electric unveils single-model audio separation tech

Mitsubishi Electric said it developed a single AI model, Task-Specific Sound Source Separation Technology, tha…

Top Companies AISep 14, 2026

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