The beat

Voice AI

Models, latency, benchmarks and the platform wars behind spoken machines.

OpenAI Voice AI Apple Generative AI Open Source AI Realtime API Siri Sound Design Stability AI Stable Audio startups telephony

Sound designer editing audio waveforms on a controller in a home foley studio

Voice AI

Stability AI Releases Stable Audio Open for Sound Designers

Stability AI released Stable Audio Open, skipping pop songs to give sound designers a 47-second synthesis engine trained on lawsuit-free audio.

Ray Dalton · draft · 6 min read

Person at a kitchen table waiting on a phone voice assistant reply at night

Voice AI

Apple Rebrands AI, Resuscitates Siri, and Outsources Its Thinking to OpenAI

Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence at WWDC, overhauling Siri, tethering ChatGPT to iOS 18, and locking the entire system behind a steep hardware upgrade wall.

Ray Dalton · draft · 5 min read

Voice AI

OpenAI's Realtime Voice Update Just Wiped Out The Wrapper Startups

OpenAI cut out the middleman in voice AI. If your entire startup was three APIs stitched together with duct tape and a markup, your business model just vanished.

Nina Falco · 6h ago · 5 min read

Other beats

Voice AgentsAutonomous callers, deployments, escalation design and the ops behind them.Virtual ReceptionistsThe front desk goes automated: clinics, trades, law firms and the money in missed calls.Synthetic VoiceCloning, prosody, watermarking, fraud and the ethics of a manufactured human sound.