#Voice

AIAccording to a source familiar with the project, Apple's homeOS was finished years ago, but the HomeHub was held back until large language models made Siri good enough to serve as its voice-driven interface. The hardware team reportedly refused to sign off on a device whose main interface was Siri, given its long-running poor performance. HomeHub is slated for an Oct 13 unveiling alongside a smart-home push with LG.

AIAutomation Anywhere Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice AI company, from Nordic Capital, to extend its autonomous enterprise platform into customer experience. Boost.ai supports more than 36 languages, serves hundreds of customers in regulated industries and Europe, and maintains more than 650 deployments and about 600 live AI agents. The deal follows Automation Anywhere's late 2025 acquisition of Aisera Inc.

AIVoice Arena's Monsoon ASR dataset fine-tuned Whisper Medium on Bengali FLEURS, reducing LLM word error rate from 85.27% to 7.65%. The corpus spans 100,000 hours across 50 languages, and Voice Arena says more than 80 organisations have asked to license it since its launch a week ago.

AIWillow Care Inc., maker of the AI dictation app Willow Voice, chose CoreWeave for its forward-deployed support rather than compute alone, according to co-founder and CTO Lawrence Liu. Liu said CoreWeave's reinforcement learning infrastructure lets Willow focus on eval alignment, while Willow fine-tunes its own speech recognition model and pairs it with a compact post-processing LLM. He said inference demand is growing faster than training as dictation use climbs.

AIElevenLabs is officially launching in Singapore, opening an office to establish its Southeast Asia hub. In July it launched Singapore data residency, offering enterprises local hosting, zero-retention options, lower latency across Singapore and East Asia, and SOC 2 compliance. Customers named include Funding Societies, Atome, and Rezonate.

AINeovance receives about 15,000 patient calls a week, and AI now handles 18% of them. Patients avoid waiting in a queue, and pharmacists can focus more on patient care.

AIGoogle is reportedly prototyping its own voice agent, internally called "Concierge," alongside preparations for a Gemini 4 release on Antigravity. The post describes the prototype as a very early version and says it is unclear whether it will launch in its current form.

AIAt the ElevenLabs Summit in Bengaluru, the company signed its first MOU with an Indian state government to pilot voice AI. Over 70% of the 100M+ ElevenAgents conversations in India over the past year were in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu. The summit drew 500+ enterprise leaders, builders, and partners.

AIElevenCreative is launching The Search, a $100,000 competition to find the world's catchiest ad, with a jingle people keep humming the next day as the core criterion. First place wins $50,000, and 11 winners each get a one-on-one session with the ElevenLabs Creative Production Team.

AISwedish bearing maker SKF has used AI to recreate Hollywood star Greta Garbo, who died in 1990, in an advertisement. The AI-generated figure says it returns for one final work, with its image built from text prompts and its voice trained on audio from one of Garbo's early films. SKF said the project was approved by Garbo's estate and family.

AIStability AI's Executive Chairman Sean Parker and CEO Prem Akkaraju spoke with The Information about the company's work building tools for music professionals. The interview is linked to a report on Stability's push, backed by major record labels, to win over musicians on AI technology.

AIElevenLabs has achieved FedRAMP 20x Class A certification, covering ElevenAgents and its Text to Speech and Speech to Text APIs when run in Zero Retention Mode with US data residency. The company says the published evidence package and FedRAMP Marketplace listing should shorten security reviews for public sector and regulated buyers. The certification extends ElevenLabs for Government, its dedicated offering for federal agencies.

AINVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will join ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski for a conversation on the future of AI at ElevenLabs Summit NYC on November 11. The post notes that NVIDIA has partnered with ElevenLabs since the company's earliest days.

AILiveKit has acquired Loophole Labs, an infrastructure company whose technology will enhance LiveKit's platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents. The acquisition moves LiveKit closer to offering customers essentially unlimited concurrent agents, according to the company.

AISable has created "Aidan," an AI employee that leads customer calls using vision, voice, video and real-time browser interaction. Frontier companies including Notion and Decagon are already using Sable to explain their products, and more than 150 companies are on its waitlist. Sequoia Capital led Sable's seed round and co-led its Series A.