Nvidia Backs Voice AI's Two Biggest Rivals at Once
Nvidia has joined Gradium's seed round while holding a stake in rival ElevenLabs, tying its GPUs to both leaders in the race to own voice AI.
Articles Tagged "Voice AI"
GPT-Live-1
OpenAI's full-duplex voice model that listens and speaks simultaneously, replacing Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT with three reasoning tiers backed by GPT-5.5.
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, Bets Voice Beats Text
OpenAI launched GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini on July 8, replacing Advanced Voice Mode and making an explicit bet that voice will become AI's primary interface.
Grok 4.3 Review: xAI Bets on Price Over Prestige
Grok 4.3 slashes prices by up to 83%, adds native video input and voice cloning, and carves out a credible position as the most cost-efficient frontier model - with real caveats on coding and latency.
MAI-Transcribe-1.5
Microsoft's second-generation speech-to-text model with 2.4% WER, 43-language support, keyword biasing, and 5x faster long-audio processing than comparable accuracy models.
Voxtral TTS
Mistral's first open-weight text-to-speech model: 4B parameters, 70ms latency, voice cloning from 3 seconds of audio, and a 68.4% win rate over ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in blind tests.
Best AI Models for Voice and Speech - June 2026
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 leads ASR at 2.2% WER after a price cut to $3.67/1000 min, Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-1.5 debuted at #3, and Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS now tops the naturalness leaderboard.
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate Rolls Out With 70+ Languages
Google's new streaming audio model translates speech in real time across 70+ languages - available now in Google Translate and via the Gemini Live API.
How to Use AI for Meeting Notes and Action Items
A beginner's guide to using AI tools like Fathom, Otter.ai, Zoom AI, and Google Meet's Gemini to automatically capture meeting notes and follow-up tasks.
Best Open-Source TTS Models for Self-Hosting in 2026
The best open-source text-to-speech models in 2026 - covering Kokoro, Chatterbox, Fish Speech, Dia, Voxtral, and Piper with real hardware requirements and licensing details.
Thinking Machines Builds AI That Listens While Talking
Mira Murati's startup unveils TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B MoE model that hits 0.40-second response latency by listening and generating speech at the same time.
Vapi Raises $50M After Amazon Ring Picks It Over 40 Rivals
Vapi closes a $50M Series B at $500M valuation after Amazon Ring routed 100% of its inbound calls through the platform, chosen over 40 competing voice AI vendors.
