# Phonic releases Phonic-1 speech-to-speech model for live agentic calls

> Original title: A 10-person startup Phonic has released Phonic-1, which it says is the only voice model that can run lookups and bookings while the calle...

- Source: Rohan Paul
- Published: 2026-10-29T17:49:36.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/lpfpm4m2nzwc8utejz589jf7y
- Original: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2115863636371787983

## Summary

Phonic has released Phonic-1, a speech-to-speech model that it says can run tool calls while the caller is still talking. It reports 87.1 on Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech index and 0.61 seconds to first audio. The company also reported a $27.5M Series A led by First Round, bringing total funding to $31.5M.

## Post

A 10-person startup Phonic has released Phonic-1, which it says is the only voice model that can run lookups and bookings while the caller is still mid-sentence.

> First on Artificial Analysis’s speech-to-speech index at 87.1, just 0.2 points above xAI’s Grok Voice 3.0, completing 79.9% of customer-service tasks with 0.61 seconds to first audio.

> Phonic-1 calls tools while the caller is still talking; in the demo it finished 5 lookups mid-speech and replied 1.1 seconds after the caller stopped, versus 15.7 seconds for OpenAI’s GPT-Live.

> Phonic reports 90.2 on Cekura’s call suite, beating a transcribe-think-speak cascade at 82.9% that outscores every ranked speech-to-speech model there, though Cekura’s public board lists Phonic v1 at 68.3%.

> They raised a $27.5M Series A led by First Round, taking total funding to $31.5M, and Phonic already powers Ashby’s AI job interviews in 25 countries.

https://x.com/moinnadeem/status/2115830873841184907/video/1

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## Quoted post @moinnadeem

> Introducing Phonic-1, the most advanced speech-to-speech model for agentic tasks — from @phonic_co, the speech-to-speech model company. 
> 
> We’ve had a breakout year and raised a $27.5M Series A led by @firstround with participation from @Lux_Capital, @felicis, and Definition.

https://x.com/moinnadeem/status/2115830871014183088