# Apriel Voice 27B Preview: An Open Model for Speech, Reasoning, and Tool Use > Source: > Published: 2026-11-02 05:00:53+00:00 A capable voice assistant must do more than recognize words; it must understand requests, reason over context, sustain conversations, and act through tools. We present Apriel Voice 27B Preview, an open speech-language model that unifies these capabilities within a shared reasoning backbone while ret