Google AI
Google's New Transcriber Posts Two Word Error Rates, Roughly 2X Apart
2.6% comes from a third-party evaluator on primary use cases. 5.04% comes from Google's own run on a multilingual benchmark. Both are in the same announcement.
3d ago
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AI Agents
OpenAI Puts a Voice on the Desktop That Supervises Agents Instead of Answering Questions
ChatGPT Voice landed on Mac and Windows on Thursday. The pitch is not dictation — it's talking to a fleet of agents already running in parallel while you do something else.
Jul 24, 2026
Anthropic
Claude's Voice Mode Stops Being the Dumb One
Until Thursday, picking Opus in Claude's model switcher did nothing in voice — every spoken conversation quietly ran on Haiku. Now the picker works, and voice can reach Gmail, Calendar and Slack.
Jul 24, 2026
AI Agents
Rime Raises $24M to Build Voice AI on Audio It Records Itself
Instead of scraping the web for speech, the San Francisco startup runs its own recording studio — a data strategy its CEO argues is the only way to fix voice agents that still feel like an IVR with a nicer voice.
Jul 16, 2026
Nvidia
Nvidia Leads Gradium's Seed to $100 Million for Ultra-Low-Latency Voice AI
The Paris lab spun out of Kyutai, whose founders authored much of the research behind modern voice models, reopened its seed with Nvidia anchoring a new tranche — and will spend it opening a Bay Area office.
Jul 11, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Full-Duplex Voice That Listens and Talks at Once
New voice models let ChatGPT hear and speak simultaneously, hand hard questions to GPT-5.5 in the background, and keep the conversation going — replacing Advanced Voice Mode as the default for 150 million-plus voice users.
Jul 9, 2026
