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SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) provides fine-grained control over AI speech output, including pronunciation, pacing, volume, pitch, and pauses, with support across major TTS engines like Google Cloud TTS, Azure …
The Poro 2 Long family of models, developed by LumiOpen in collaboration with TurkuNLP and the OpenEuroLLM project, extends the context window of the Poro 2 base model to 128k tokens while maintaining short-context perfo…
A 2026 guide from this+that identifies 12 AI agents for real estate lead follow-up, citing that 80% of sales require five or more follow-ups yet 44% of agents give up after one contact, and reporting that brokerages usin…
Anthropic has expanded Claude's voice mode to support its Opus and Sonnet models, ending a period in which voice conversations were limited to the lighter Haiku model, unlocking longer reasoning and tool-heavy tasks via …
Willow, a voice dictation startup, announced a new platform on July 23rd, 2026, that measures success by a "zero edit rate" — the proportion of transcriptions that require no user edits before sending. The company argues…
HubSpot launched Agent Hub and Agent Builder in public beta on July 23 for Professional and Enterprise customers, providing a central console to build, monitor, and coordinate AI agents across marketing, sales, and servi…
Narya.ai launched Mumble Dictation, a local-first dictation app for Mac that keeps audio on-device and learns users' vocabulary, priced at $50 one-time. The app runs its full pipeline locally, including ASR and transcrip…
DKSplit v1.0.2, a fast character-level word segmentation library for Python, achieves 86.5% strict exact match accuracy on a 1,000-sample benchmark of domain prefixes, outperforming WordSegment (65.2%) and WordNinja (51.…
Amazon is launching an update to Alexa Plus that enables the assistant to connect with smart home devices from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, automatically routing requests t…
Google's latest Google Home update gives Gemini for Home a 15-minute conversational memory, allowing users to issue follow-up commands without repeating context. The update also brings automation warnings in the Google H…
Researchers built RAGAL, a fully local retrieval-augmented assistant for the technical-support team of AFIR, the Romanian Agency for Financing Rural Investments, using only an 8 GB consumer laptop and zero data egress. O…
OpenAI announced on July 23, 2026, that ChatGPT Voice is now available in its desktop app, enabling users to control their computer and direct multiple agents running in ChatGPT Work or Codex using voice commands. The fe…
Anthropic has expanded Claude's voice mode to its Opus and Sonnet models, previously only available on the Haiku model, and extended the feature to apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. The company said users were using voi…
Apple's iOS 27, launching this fall, introduces a new Siri AI that delivers on world knowledge, conversational UI, and cross-device consistency, according to a beta user. The upgraded assistant answers questions broadly,…
Kaito has signed a data integration agreement with X, restoring direct API access for the AI-powered crypto research platform after months of uncertainty following X's API policy changes earlier this year. The partnershi…
A developer explains that an AI language model generates text by repeatedly predicting the next token based on probability distributions and sampling, not deterministic selection. This mechanism explains variability in o…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases, a new retrieval mode available through the AgenticRetrieveStream API that plans and iterates over retrieval to handle mult…
Voicify, a Google Cloud customer, uses Gemini Flash via the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to power AI-enabled voice assistants for restaurants and healthcare, achieving 25% to 30% cost savings compared to previous LLM…
A developer built raven-retrieval, an open-source framework that benchmarks 19 retrieval pipelines on BEIR datasets with Bonferroni-corrected significance tests. The key finding is that top pipelines like HyDE and Naive …
A Slovenian developer analyzed 2,300 of their own prompts to Claude Code and found that prompting in Slovenian instead of English hurts performance less than expected for large models, with a token premium of only 16% on…