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Voice 4.0: Smallest.ai Raises $21M for Parallel Voice AI
Smallest.ai's $21M raise backs Hydra, a voice model that handles listening, reasoning, and response in parallel, cutting latency for enterprise calls.
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Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 Tops the Voice AI Benchmark
SpaceXAI's new voice model scores 82.9% on the leading speech benchmark, cuts first-audio latency to 0.70 seconds, and undercuts rivals at $0.08/min.
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Krisp VIVA 2.0 Fixes Voice AI's Production Problem
Krisp launched VIVA 2.0 on May 6: voice infrastructure for AI agents that fixes the noise, turn-taking, and interruption problems that kill voice AI demos.
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Voice Actors Head to DC as AI Job Losses Hit 21 Percent
NAVA is pushing federal AI legislation as 21% of voice actors report losing work to AI, up from 14% last year. Here's what businesses need to know.
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xAI Launches Voice Cloning API and Grok 4.3 at 40% Off
xAI released Grok 4.3 and a custom voice cloning API on April 30: 80+ voices, 28 languages, under-2-minute clone creation, 40% cheaper than Grok 4.
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xAI Enters Enterprise Voice AI With Grok Speech APIs
xAI launched Grok STT and TTS APIs claiming 5% phone call error rate versus ElevenLabs at 12%, targeting enterprise voice builders.
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Mistral Releases Open-Source Voxtral TTS
Mistral's open-weight Voxtral lets businesses run voice AI on their own servers with no data leaving the building, a shift for regulated industries.