AI voice agents are no longer a futuristic concept—they are fundamentally transforming how businesses operate. While countries like the U.S. and China have been leading the AI revolution, my ...

PCWorld’s reporter tested Sesame’s new AI voice app and found it delivers the most human-like conversational experience available, using Google’s Gemma 4 LLM and custom speech models. The app performs ...

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The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform.

Many companies are moving beyond rigid, scripted chatbots toward more natural customer interactions. A new voice AI agent called Leaping AI is part of a movement bringing the call center industry into ...

Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversation.

Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. has reasons to think the new year could be a good one after raising $130 million in funding at a $1.3 billion valuation. It also unveiled ...