5 results for “voice AI”
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, 2026, adding real-time visual grounding and background tool execution to voice agents across the Gemini API and Workspace.
Alibaba Cloud added Qwen-Audio 3.1 Realtime to Model Studio with tool calling, semantic turn detection, and full-duplex control. Alibaba reports background-speech responses falling to 13%, though some benchmarks slipped.
OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 in its API on September 10, 2026, a full-duplex voice model that listens and speaks simultaneously. OpenAI reports it cuts interruptions by nearly 80% in early tests with Speak.
Hugging Face research shows top ASR models reproduce benchmark transcripts even when audio contradicts them. The study found models with the lowest reported error rates were most likely to regurgitate incorrect reference texts, overstating real-world performance.
NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an 11-billion-parameter end-to-end speech-to-speech model that performs streaming speech understanding. VoiceChat 11B gives researchers and infrastructure teams a reference implementation.