In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to ...

Trying the new voice assistant from AI startup Sesame is the first time I momentarily forgot I was talking to a bot. Compared to ChatGPT's voice mode, Sesame's "conversational voice" feels natural, ...

Meta didn't wait for Tuesday's LlamaCon keynote to unveil its first big AI announcement of the week. The company launched a standalone app that competes with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other ...

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Deepdub, a foundational voice AI company pioneering expressive voice technologies, announced today the launch of Phantom Z 3.4 Conversational, a new ...

Today at its pre-filmed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple was finally prepared to fully introduce the long-delayed “Apple Intelligence” update for its Siri voice assistant. The new “Siri ...

Hello! This is Sayuri Kimura from the Generative AI Research Department at Kotouri Co., Ltd.!Today, there have been major developments in the leading contenders for conversational AI. Google has ...

Berlin startup Synthflow AI raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Accel. The startup built "conversational" AI voice agents that can react in real time with customers. BI got a look at the ...

OpenAI today released new conversational models, called GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, claiming that they sound more natural and can handle turn-taking better. These are full-duplex models, meaning ...

In context: Some of the implications of today's AI models are startling enough without adding a hyperrealistic human voice to them. We have seen several impressive examples over the last 10 years, but ...

Enterprise-grade real-time text-to-speech delivers 150ms time to first audio at full 48 kHz, with text normalization that gets account numbers, invoice totals and appointment dates right TEL AVIV, ...