Speech Technology Magazine

Krisp, a provider of voice artificial intelligence technology, has joined the 8x8 Technology Partner Ecosystem bringing Krisp's AI-powered noise cancellation, voice isolation, accent conversion, and multilingual voice capabilities to the 8x8 Platform for CX. The integration will help organizations deliver clearer interactions across 8x8 Contact Center and 8x8 Work, whether customers and support agents connect from an office, home, or another location.

boost.ai, a provider of customer experience and conversational artificial intelligence solutions for regulated industries, it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI As an OpenAI Select Partner, boost.ai will continue working with OpenAI to help organizations build, deploy, and scale AI solutions responsibly and effectively.

sensiBel, a provider of optical MEMS sensing, and Aizip, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) applications for endpoint and edge devices, have partnered to combine sensiBel's optical MEMS microphone with Aizip's edge AI beamforming solution to deliver dramatic improvements in speech clarity and recognition, even in the noisiest environments. "The best way to improve AI audio capture at the application level is to use the highest-performance microphone at the input level.

As the nation prepares for a new school year, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is sharing ways that school professionals can support students who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices. Students who have limited or unreliable verbal speech can benefit from AAC devices, especially when they are used regularly throughout the school day. Today, more than 2 million people in the United States use these devices to communicate.

"APAC is one of the most promising markets for voice AI right now," said Scott Stephenson, CEO and co-founder of Deepgram, in a statement. "You have huge demand, incredible linguistic diversity, and companies moving quickly from experimenting with AI to putting it into production.

Enterprise voice and voice AI solutions provider AudioCodes and AnywhereNow, a provider of AI-native customer experience solutions built for the Microsoft Teams ecosystem, are among the first solution providers certified under Microsoft's newest Teams programs.

Deepgram, an infrastructure company underpinning the voice artificial intelligence economy, today released Flux TTS, a conversation-native text-to-speech (TTS) model for enterprise voice agents. Flux TTS joins Flux speech-to-text (STT) within Deepgram's broader voice AI platform and is backed by the same runtime and deployment flexibility organizations already use to process speech with Deepgram at scale.

Asserting that traditional word-error rate (WER) calculations for speech recognition accuracy misses the mark, a team of speech researchers from European universities have proposed a pair of metrics that dive not just into how many words were wrong, but how much meaning was lost.

Insta360 has launched the AI Voice Assistant, a major software update that turns Insta360 GO Ultra into a companion for travel, exploration and storytelling. The AI Voice Assistant is built with Google Gemini, it lets users translate conversations and get instant answers through voice and photo Q&A, all from one wearable device. GO Ultra is a palm-sized wearable vlogging camera built for lightweight, hands-free, first-person capture.

ElevenLabs has made its Dubbing v2 model available through its ElevenAPI platform, allowing developers to integrate the technology directly into their products and workflows. Dubbing v2 employs a unique direct speech-to-speech (audio-to-audio) architecture that generates speech output directly from the source speech, enabling it to replicate the speaker's voice, maintaining the original's emotional expression and performance. It also aligns the spoken dialogue naturally with video timing.