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I got access to the new Siri today. Early take: way better comprehension, but it jumps the gun mid-sentence, and the voice isn't very expressive yet. On the newsletter: weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/24-apple-gets-siri-ous-about-its

#24: Apple gets Siri-ous about its assistant

Top News

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AI translation is supposed to be one of the biggest LLM wins. After a week in China testing AirPods, iFlytek, Even Realities glasses, and Apple Translate - I'm not convinced. weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/23-lost-in-translation

#23: Lost in translation

Companies need to work on better translation tools in the era of large language model

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Google wants you to talk to AI. Spotify wants you to listen to it. Google IO's features about talking to AI felt fragmented. Spotify's were about generation: personal AI podcasts, ElevenLabs audiobooks, UMG remixes. weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/21-google-wants-you-to-talk-to-ai

#21: Google wants you to talk to AI, Spotify wants you to listen to it

Big Tech's voice bets

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#21: Google wants you to talk to AI, Spotify wants you to listen to it

Big Tech's voice bets

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Time for Google to launch an AI that can name its products without confusing the hell out of you.

Google wants you to ramble. Gboard's new AI feature cleans up messy speech into polished text. Fish Audio faces backlash for unconsented voice clones. Meta joins voice AI. In the latest edition of the newsletter: weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/20-are-you-ready-to-ramble

#20: Are you ready to ramble?

The battle for native mobile dictation, real-time interaction models, and Fish Audio's copyright issue

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Granola locked users' meeting transcripts. So a web dev with 20 years of experience built @talat.app. The app has a one-time fee of $49, uses offline models for transcription, and allows MCP connections. weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/how-talat-built-a-local-first-stack

How Talat built a local-first stack for meeting notetaking

Into Talat's use of Core Audio and local LLMs to keep meeting data on-device.

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This week in voice AI: all roads lead to CX. Sierra raised $925M. ElevenLabs crossed $500M ARR. Airbnb: 40% of support is AI-handled. OpenAI dropped new voice models. Plus Netflix voice search, Suno's $5B bid, and more. weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/19-in-our-cx-era

#19: In our CX era

OpenAI unveils new voice models, Sierra's $925M funding,

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Deepgram CEO Scott Stephenson says Whisper is probably STILL the best open-source STT engine - three and a half years after launch. Building good open-source speech-to-text is hard and expensive. weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/deepgram-ceo-says-it-is-harder-to

Deepgram CEO says it is harder to build a good open-source speech-to-text model

Inside Deepgram's new Flux model with in-built turn detection and why context passing will be important for voice agents

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ElevenLabs acquired a team from a Polish startup called Papla to boost its bet on research. One of the founders has written multiple research papers on voice generation in the last few years weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/18-into-el...

#18: Into ElevenLabs' research bet

Deepgram releases a new multilingual speech recognition model for real-time agents

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Deepgram investor tells me he feels every conversation in enterprise will be recorded for insights and transparency. He also said that voice AI is one of the fastest-growing sectors he has ever seen in his VC career weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

An Interview with Wing VC's Zach DeWitt on how voice can unlock trapped knowledge

The death of the unrecorded meeting

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ElevenLabs crossed $430 million in ARR and had a quarter with its first $100 million in net ARR edition. My analysis of the company's business: weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/16-elevenl...

#16: ElevenLabs' growth gets louder with $430M ARR milestone

The company added $100 million in net new ARR this quarter

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Wispr Flow is gaining traction in India in the productivity market. I looked into its strategy for expansion in a market with great potential for voice applications weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/into-wispr...

Into Wispr Flow's India expansion and opportunity

Pricing, platform, and local models

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Apple is breaking transcription apps like Wispr Flow and SuperWhisper with the new iOS 26.4 update. While, there are fewer apps on Android, the experience on the platform is much better because of the flexibility Google allows weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/apple-is-b...

Apple is breaking best AI transcription apps

And why Android is better placed despite having fewer apps

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Voice AI had a stellar first quarter, with startups getting more than $1.88 million in funding in voice and voice-related startups. weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/week-in-vo...

Week in voice AI #14: Analyzing Voice AI's blockbuster Q1

The sweet sound of funding money

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New: ElevenLabs quietly released a new music generation app for consumers called ElevenMusic. More in my newsletter open.substack.com/pub/weekinvo...

ElevenLabs releases ElevenMusic for AI-powered song creation to compete against Suno and Udio

Eleven notes of music

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Last week, Cohere and Mistral released their open-source voice models while Granola scored a $125 million round. Read more in my voice AI newsletter

Week in voice AI #13: Open-source models galore

And Granola funding

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ElevenLabs is set to launch its music app soon to take on Suno and Udio open.substack.com/pub/weekinvo...

ElevenLabs is set to launch an AI music app for creation and discovery to battle it out with Suno and Udio

Eleven Music is coming soon

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