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    James Zammit

    Co-Founder and CEO · Roark

    Meet James Zammit, Co-Founder and CEO at Roark, who joined the BotCast #12 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm…

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    Leading voice AI agents hear the warning sign, then follow the words anyway

    VoxParity · Research / Report

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    Voice AI News - Week 41, Oct 5-11, 2026

    Automation Anywhere is buying Boost.ai, Amazon shipped Nova 2.5 Sonic, ElevenLabs pushed into India and Meloni filed her voice as a trademark. Week 41.

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    Tom Waszkowycz

    Co-Founder and CTO · Inkling

    Meet Tom Waszkowycz, Co-Founder and CTO at Inkling, who joined the BotCast #11 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? Hi,…

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    Voice AI News - Week 40, Sep 28-Oct 4, 2026

    ElevenLabs shipped v4, Microsoft launched streaming transcription, Hume is closing its voice APIs and two courts ruled on voice clones. Week 40 (Sep 28-Oct 4).

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    Voice AI Startup Programs: Credits and Grants You Can Apply For (September 2026)

    Voice AI Space · Research / Report

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    Voice AI News - Week 39, Sep 21-27, 2026

    Google let Gemini phone businesses, Alibaba cut audio prices, and a cloned voice cost an Italian bank EUR 95 million. Voice AI news, week 39 (Sep 21-27).

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    Ben (Simiao) Ren, Ph.D.

    Co-Founder · scam.ai

    Meet Ben Ren, Co-Founder at scam.ai, who joined the BotCast #10 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? Hi everyone, my name…

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    Katrin Tomanek & Alex Kauffmann

    Squeezlabs · Squeezlabs

    Meet Katrin Tomanek and Alex Kauffmann, Co-founders at Squeezlabs, who joined the BotCast #9 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who…

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    Voice AI News - Week 38, Sep 14-20, 2026

    Apple shipped Siri AI, Google, SpaceXAI and Alibaba shipped new voice models, and California made synthetic performer disclosure law. Week 38 (Sep 14-20).

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    Haithem Kchaou

    Co-Founder & CEO · Callab AI | YC P26

    Meet Haithem Kchaou, Co-Founder CEO at Callab AI | YC P26, who joined the BotCast #8 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you?…

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    Voice AI News — Sep 7–13, 2026

    OpenAI ships full-duplex voice, Apple puts ambient listening on the wrist, and China's top court writes its first rules on cloned voices. Sep 7 to 13.

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    Rob Pickering

    Founder · Aplisay

    Meet Rob Pickering, Founder at Aplisay, who joined the BotCast #7 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? My name's Rob…

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    Voice AI News — Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

    Explore the latest Voice AI news, featuring SoundHound AI's acquisition of LivePerson, Havells' multilingual controls, and new speech-based health tools.

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    John George

    CTO · CaseGen.ai

    Meet John George, CTO at CaseGen.ai, who joined the BotCast # 6 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm John George, CTO…

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    Voice AI News — Aug 24–30, 2026

    Discover how voice AI is transforming industries with profitable voice clones, automated recruitment screening, and advanced clinical documentation tools.

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    Thomas Kluiters

    Co-founder and Head of AI · Reson8

    Meet Thomas Kluiters, Co-founder and Head of AI at Reson8, who joined the BotCast #5 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you?…

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    The Global Voice AI Gathering #1 - 20 August 2026

    Voice AI Space · Other

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    Voice AI News — Aug 17–22, 2026

    Discover the latest voice AI news, featuring Grok Voice topping the Speech Agent Arena, OpenAI pausing Astra, and tech giants facing voice data lawsuits.

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    John Kelvie

    CEO and co-founder · Bespoken AI

    Meet John Kelvie, CEO and co-founder at Bespoken AI, who joined the BotCast #4 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm…

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    Laurent Mazare

    co-CTO · Gradium.AI

    Meet Laurent Mazare, co-CTO at Gradium.AI, who joined the BotCast #3 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? My name is…

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    Soniox launches TTS v2, one model for narration, creative work and voice agents in 60+ languages

    Soniox · Product Launch

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    Alex Bordanova

    Chief Product and Technology Officer · Voicemod

    Meet Alex Bordanova, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Voicemod, who joined the BotCast #2 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI.…

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    Voice AI News — Aug 10–17, 2026

    This week in voice AI: NVIDIA opens Nemotron 3 VoiceChat, Deepgram ships Flux TTS, Apple courts publishers for Siri, Sarvam takes its agents platform public.

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    Zac Zuo

    co-founder · Flowtica

    Meet Zac, co-founder at Flowtica, who joined the BotCast #1 to answer our usual questions on building with Voice AI. Who are you? I'm Zac, the co-founder…

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    Voice AI News — Aug 3–9, 2026

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    Florent de Goriainoff

    CEO · fluents

    Florent’s journey into voice was not exactly planned. He worked in telecoms, software, data, and cloud infrastructure before realizing that voice AI…

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    Voice AI News — Jul 27 – Aug 3, 2026

    Explore the latest voice AI news as Yelp launches an AI phone assistant, Smallest.ai secures $13M in funding, and new developer tools emerge from ElevenLabs.

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    Neuphonic launch NeuTTS-2E a controllable Emotional Speech in a 125M-Parameter On-Device Model

    Neuphonic · Product Launch

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    Voice AI News — Jul 20–27, 2026

    Explore the latest voice AI news as Amazon updates Alexa Plus, OpenAI brings hands-free voice control to ChatGPT desktop, and Anthropic expands Claude voice.

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    Voice AI News — Jul 14–20, 2026

    OpenAI's screenless AI speaker leaks, Meta patents mood detection, Rime raises $24M, and voice cloning scams keep surging; the week's biggest voice AI stories.

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    Gradium Launches Translate for Real-Time Speech-to-Text and Speech-to-Speech Translation

    Gradium · Product Launch

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    Voice AI News — Jul 6 – Jul 13, 2026

    OpenAI's screenless device & GPT-Live, Gradium's $100M seed, Amazon Moonraker, Nvidia Audex, xAI's 21 Grok voices, and more voice AI this week.

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    Soniox v5 Real-Time follows a live conversation, not just the words

    Soniox · Product Launch

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    Davut Akça

    Founder · Voxis (voxislive.com)

    Watching a foreign film, playing a game, sitting on a call with someone who doesn't speak your language, and there it is again: that bar of text at the…

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    ai-coustics launches Tyto to identify audio issues before they impact voice agents

    ai-coustics · Product Launch

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    Sardor Davlatov

    CEO · NavAI

    A few years back, Sardor Davlatov called the DMV to book an appointment for a friend. The agent on the line sounded completely human, smooth, natural, no…

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    Voice AI News — Jun 29 – Jul 6, 2026

    ElevenLabs eyes $22B, SoundHound acquires LivePerson, xAI launches Grok Voice Builder, Netflix clones Gene Wilder, FBI warns of $893M in AI voice fraud and more

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    Lex Goetz

    CEO · Overmind.one

    Five years ago, while everyone else was building chatty bots, Lex Goetz was chasing a different idea: talk to your product, talk to your data. Not voice…

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    Far-Field ASR Leaderboard: Treble and Hugging Face Launch FFASR

    Treble · Product Launch

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    Voice AI News — Jun 22–29, 2026

    Coval lands $28M, Assort Health raises $120M, C Mercedes adds AI voice control, Hasbro faces AI backlash — this week's biggest voice AI stories.

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    The Voice AI investors List

    Voice AI Space · Feature Update

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    Voice AI News — Jun 15–22, 2026

    Salesforce buys Fin for $3.6B, Bland raises $50M, Sarvam unicorn, Google's new speaker, UnitedHealth's $3B AI bet, and more voice AI this week.

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    Mohamed Hani ElMasry

    Founder & CEO · SentiVue

    The phone call is where the most important conversations still happen, and for people who don't share a language, it has barely changed in decades. Text…

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    Voice AI News — Jun 8–14, 2026

    Voice AI this week: Apple, Google, Microsoft, ElevenLabs, and deployments across healthcare, finance, and hospitality.

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    Voice AI News: May 25–31, 2026

    Sesame launches its conversational iOS app, Arc raises $10.76M for drive-through voice AI, ElevenLabs debuts Dubbing V2 and Music V2, Claude adds 18 languages,

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    Coco Shellim

    Founder & CEO · Sound AiSleep

    Living abroad and missing bedtime with her niece and nephew, Coco Shellim started recording herself reading stories and sending them over as voice notes.…

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    Voice AI News: May 18–24, 2026

    Key Voice AI updates: Sierra's $1B raise at $16B val, Hark's $700M, Google Gemini agents, OpenAI voice acquisition, ElevenLabs in Spotify audiobooks, new TTS mo

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    Bradley Metrock

    CEO · Voice Project

    “I’m not an engineer. I’m just a guy who got curious." That's how Bradley Metrock introduces himself, and it might be the most honest opening line in…

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    Voice AI News: May 11–17, 2026

    Voice AI roundup May 11-17: Vapi $50M Series B, Basata $21M medical agents, OpenAI buys Weights.gg, Resemble DramaBox TTS, Thinking Machines full-duplex preview

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    Sylvain Boily

    Founder · RoomKit

    Sylvain Boily's voice story starts in a basement in Puteaux in 2004, building an open-source PBX with two friends. Twenty years in telecom followed, and…

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    Voice AI News: May 3–10, 2026

    Voice AI highlights May 3-10: OpenAI introduces GPT-Realtime models for API, while ElevenLabs reaches $500M ARR and enters Australia and New Zealand markets.

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    Akshat (Ack) Prakash

    CTO & Co-founder · Camb.ai

    Some founders land in voice through an annoyance. Akshat Prakash's path was a straight line: AI at Carnegie Mellon, inspired by the speech research coming…

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