Famulor launched a full-duplex AI phone agent that listens while speaking, handling inbound calls, outbound campaigns, and follow-ups across WhatsApp, email, SMS, and a website widget from a single co…
Instruction following remains the biggest unsolved challenge in production voice AI in 2026, according to a guide published by voice AI platform Famulor, because most production voice agents still run…
Famulor connects AI voice agents to existing PBX systems such as 3CX, STARFACE, Asterisk, and FreePBX via SIP trunk or BYOC (Bring Your Own Carrier) without hardware replacement, number porting, or do…
Meta released Muse Voice Transcribe on September 1, 2026, and Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2 on September 3, 2026, with Meta reporting first place on the Artificial Analysis streaming STT ranking…
Twilio unveiled its Conversational AI suite at SIGNAL 2026, including the Conversation Orchestrator, Conversation Memory, Conversation Intelligence, Agent Connect, and Enterprise Knowledge API, alongs…
Companies migrating from legacy IVR to AI voice agents cut average handle time by 30–50%, raise self-service rates from under 25% to as high as 70%, and reduce misrouting from 30% to below 10%, accord…
Famulor introduced Force tool call on September 2, 2026, an option for Tool nodes in its Flow Builder that makes an AI phone assistant invoke a selected tool rather than skip the required step, accord…
AI voice agents that answer calls instantly and resolve routine inquiries without hold time can cut call abandonment from 20–40% to under 5% and reduce cost per call from $5–$12 to $0.05–$0.15, accord…
OpenAI and Anthropic released competing voice AI updates on the same day in late August 2026, with OpenAI's GPT-Live and Realtime API targeting cross-application automation at roughly 300-500 ms laten…
Zendesk's CX Trends 2026 survey found that 83% of CX leaders view memory-rich AI as key to personalized customer journeys, while 74% of surveyed customers are frustrated at having to repeat informatio…
Famulor added Inworld as a new voice provider for AI assistants in an update dated August 30, 2026, offering two selectable voice variants, according to the Famulor changelog. Famulor positions the In…
Speaker diarization, the automatic assignment of speech segments to individual speakers in an audio stream, is being positioned as a core requirement for AI voice agents handling business telephony, a…
Famulor expanded its Milian Missions product with Mission Studio in an August 30, 2026 update, adding event-driven triggers so background tasks can start from workspace events such as completed calls,…
Famulor published a guide on using AI voice agents to automate event ticket hotlines and attendee support, claiming at least 70% of typical event inquiries can be fully automated. The guide states 40–…
Famulor updated its warm transfer feature on August 29, 2026, so that an AI assistant returns to the caller with one of four classified outcomes — busy, declined, no_answer, or temporarily_unavailable…
Famulor added a Data migration panel under Settings → Workspace that lets Owners and Admins import Retell, Vapi, or Synthflow assistants as inactive copies, with no plan gate. The importer copies only…
Voice AI pilots typically plateau at 45% call resolution because of five bottlenecks — ungrounded models with 15–30% hallucination rates, missing backend integration, misclassified call types, cold tr…