New research suggests that sci-fi's most popularly-depicted method of interfacing with AI may actually produce worse results than even badly-typed prompts. From HAL to Deep Thought, from C3P0 to Wall-E, the idealized form of human/AI relations has always centered around voice-control; and this has manifested in the real world, from early assistant systems such as Siri and Alexa, to language-based querying and colloquy with the current range of frontier LLMs. This idea emerged during less… [...]
OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architect [...]
Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversat [...]
The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate plat [...]
Last August, my best friend asked me how she could help her neighbor set her iPhone so she could answer it without picking it up. The neighbor had Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and had lost dexterity in bo [...]
Microsoft is fundamentally reimagining how people interact with their computers, announcing Thursday a sweeping transformation of Windows 11 that brings voice-activated AI assistants, autonomous softw [...]
For the past year, enterprise decision-makers have faced a rigid architectural trade-off in voice AI: adopt a "Native" speech-to-speech (S2S) model for speed and emotional fidelity, or stick [...]
While Elon Musk faces off against his former colleague and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in court, Musk's rival firm xAI, founded to take on OpenAI, isn't slowing down on launching competitiv [...]