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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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Everything happening in voice AI — news, announcements, and the people building it.
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VentureBeat AI·OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice upgrade that lets ChatGPT talk more like a personVentureBeat AI·Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.Google News - Voice AI·AI Voice Fraud Exposes Costa Rica’s Trust Gap - Nearshore AmericasGoogle News - Voice AI·EQS-News: Voiskey Officially Launches: The First AI Voice Typing App Focused on Expression Intelligence - boerse.de - boerse.deGoogle News - Voice AI·REMI8 AI Launches Next-Generation AI Voice Recorder Designed for Accurate Meetings, Local Language Intelligence, and Enterprise Productivity - IT Voice MediaGoogle News - Voice AI·Omilia ramps up Taco Bell partnership with expansion of voice AI tech across 890+ US drive-thrus - Retail Technology Innovation HubGoogle News - Voice AI·Taco Bell Expands Voice AI at US Drive-Thrus - Foodservice Equipment ReportsGoogle News - Voice AI·New Research: Businesses Accelerate Voice AI Investment while Con - The National Law ReviewGoogle News - Voice AI·Truckstop launches AI voice assistant for drivers - Truck NewsGoogle News - Voice AI·Study: Majority of Radio Listeners Unbothered By AI Voices On-Air - Radio InkVentureBeat AI·Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to mobile and web as usage data shows most users aren’t codingGoogle News - Voice AI·The Power of Voice AI Agents in Automating RCM - Healthcare IT TodayGoogle News - Voice AI·New York Accent Ranked Second Most Trusted AI Voice In National Survey - WNBF News RadioGoogle News - Voice AI·Axis Max Life partners with GreyLabs Voice AI to improve sales conversions - Adgully.comGoogle News - Voice AI·Study Finds AI Voice Agents Increased Specialty Care Program Enrollment Rates 340% in Real-World Clinical Setting - PR NewswireGoogle News - Voice AI·Voice AI Agents Struggle to Convert Leads, Forbes Explains - Let's Data ScienceGoogle News - Voice AI·Omilia Powers Taco Bell's Expansion of Voice AI Across 890+ U.S. Drive-Thrus - Business WireGoogle News - Voice AI·Axis Max Life deploys GreyLabs AI's Voice AI Suite to boost sales conversions - IMPACT MagazineGoogle News - Speech Tech·Nuance Communications focuses on speech technology. Investors watch its AI transition - AD HOC NEWSGoogle News - Voice AI·Axis Max Life Deploys GreyLabs Voice AI, Driving 15% Sales Uplift Through 100% Call Intelligence - Indianweb2.comGoogle News - Voice AI·Study Finds AI Voices Equal Humans On Sound, Not Trust. - Insideradio.comGoogle News - Voice AI·LG Uplus, KISA join to boost AI voice spam blocking in South Korea - CHOSUNBIZ - ChosunbizVentureBeat AI·Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousnessGoogle News - Voice AI·How the voice AI economy went from talking point to inflection point for agentic - Business InsiderGoogle News - Voice AI·New in iOS 27 beta 3: Siri AI voice customization options - AppleInsiderGoogle News - Voice AI·Never say 'yes' to these three questions from an unknown caller - it's an AI voice scam - Irish MirrorGoogle News - Voice AI·Harvey Keitel Shoots Film, Warns About AI Voice - Let's Data ScienceGoogle News - Voice AI·Shunya Labs launches multilingual Voice AI platform - Campaign IndiaVentureBeat AI·How America's 250th birthday became a test of AI-powered collective intelligenceGoogle News - Voice AI·Vapi Showcases Amazon Ring Deployment and Plans Webinar on Advanced Voice AI - TipRanksGoogle News - Voice AI·MBC Announcers Confront AI Voice Cloning Crisis - 조선일보Google News - Voice AI·What Security Teams Need to Know Before Their Organization Deploys Voice AI - CyberSecurityNewsGoogle News - Voice AI·Netflix teams with Gene Wilder estate for AI voice cloning in Willy Wonka-themed “Golden Ticket” - RealscreenGoogle News - Voice AI·Gnaniai Highlights Enterprise-Scale Voice AI Infrastructure Focus - TipRanksGoogle News - Speech Tech·NIHR BRC: Maudsley hosts UK and Ireland Speech Workshop - King's College LondonGoogle News - Voice AI·AI voice-cloning scams are fooling Canadian parents — but there were red flags that gave away one scammer - Yahoo! Finance CanadaGoogle News - Voice AI·Five9 (FIVN) Stock Seems Fairly Priced Following New Voice AI Agents - Yahoo FinanceGoogle News - Voice AI·ElevenLabs explores tender offer valuing AI voice startup at $22 billion- BBG - Investing.comGoogle News - Voice AI·BMW Financial Services eyes AI voice call tech by Q4 - Auto Finance NewsGoogle News - Voice AI·Voice AI firm ElevenLabs seeks $22b valuation, sources say - Tech in AsiaGoogle News - Voice AI·ToneTag bets on voice AI to bring banking services to India's 80 million merchants - TechcircleGoogle News - Voice AI·RevComm launches MiiTel for Retail for in-store voice AI - International Business TimesGoogle News - Voice AI·The Dangers of AI Voice Clones - Nautilus | ScienceGoogle News - Voice AI·Gnaniai Highlights Production-Ready Voice AI Performance With Prisma v2.5 - TipRanksGoogle News - Voice AI·Jabra Evolve3: How Voice AI is Dictating the Future of Work - AI MagazineVentureBeat AI·Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI codingGoogle News - Voice AI·The Odyssey in Michael Caine’s AI voice? Why I’d choose a voice artist any day - The Indian ExpressGoogle News - Voice AI·The Odyssey in Michael Caine’s AI voice? Why I’d choose a voice artist any day - The Indian ExpressGoogle News - Voice AI·xAI rolls out Grok Voice AI Agent Builder to let users create AI voice agents in under two minutes - Moneycontrol.comGoogle News - Voice AI·Revin AI Voice and SMS Agents Power Vertex Service Partners Roofing Operations - The Fast ModeGoogle News - Voice AI·Netflix's New Reality Show Revives Willy Wonka With AI Voice, Faces Backlash - YahooGoogle News - Voice AI·Gene Wilder's Family Supports AI Voice in Netflix's Wonka Show Amid Fan Backlash - YahooGoogle News - Voice AI·IntelePeer Wins 2026 Voice AI Technology Excellence from CUSTOMER Magazine - MarTech CubeGoogle News - Voice AI·What is the best AI voice agent for businesses in 2026? - Technology OrgGoogle News - Voice AI·Vertex Service Partners Rolls Out Revin's AI Voice and SMS Agents Across Its National Roofing Portfolio - Yahoo FinanceVentureBeat AI·Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?VentureBeat AI·Restaurants can now accept orders placed directly from ChatGPT and Claude thanks to Square's new, low-fee, no setup integrationGoogle News - Voice AI·RingCentral Offers a Smarter Way to Manage Customer Conversations with Voice AI - citybizGoogle News - Voice AI·Are Banks Ready for AI Voice Fraud? - Unite.AIGoogle News - Voice AI·Sprio AI Turns Customer Conversations into Revenue Opportunities with Voice AI - irishsun.comVentureBeat AI·Morgan Stanley cut its riskiest reconciliation job in half — by making its agents less autonomousGoogle News - Voice AI·AI Voice Recorder Raises $11M: Using It Without Consent Is a Felony in These States - Tech TimesGoogle News - Speech Tech·A former NFL star lost his speech to ALS. Here’s how he still talks - Northeastern Global NewsGoogle News - Voice AI·Gene Wilder AI Voice: Wonka Show Hits Netflix Sept 23 - tbreak.comGoogle News - Voice AI·Gene Wilder fans slam Willy Wonka Netflix series over AI voice - The IndependentGoogle News - Voice AI·Willy Wonka Competition Series Starring the AI Voice of Gene Wilder Coming Soon to Netflix - CNETVentureBeat AI·Google's Gemini Omni Flash hits the API, turning enterprise video production into a conversationGoogle News - Voice AI·How to Scale Enterprise Voice AI Safely: Implementation, Governance, and Best Practices - The AI JournalGoogle News - Voice AI·IntelePeer Receives 2026 Voice AI Technology Excellence Award from CUSTOMER Magazine - MorningstarGoogle News - Voice AI·IntelePeer Receives 2026 Voice AI Technology Excellence Award from CUSTOMER Magazine - PR NewswireVentureBeat AI·AI agents need context everywhere they run, even where the cloud can't followGoogle News - Voice AI·From Experiment to Infrastructure: The Scaling of Enterprise Voice AI - CXOToday.comGoogle News - Voice AI·Gnaniai Emphasizes Speech-to-Text Reliability in Enterprise Voice AI - TipRanksGoogle News - Voice AI·The Future of AI Voice Deployment Isn’t Speed—It’s Provenance - Unite.AIGoogle News - Voice AI·Valence AI Raises USD 5M to Bring Emotional Intelligence to Voice AI - SlatorGoogle News - Voice AI·JCL Credit Leasing adopts AI voice agents to boost customer verification, debt collection - The VibesGoogle News - Speech Tech·In 1978, Texas Instruments developed a speech chip that brought synthetic voices into everyday devices - The Times of IndiaVentureBeat AI·Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chipsGoogle News - Voice AI·AI Voice Giant Faces IPO Hurdles, Accused by Distributors of "Overpromising" - 36KrVentureBeat AI·DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%
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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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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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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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ai-coustics launches Tyto to identify audio issues before they impact voice agents
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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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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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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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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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