Back to Articles A few months ago, we added private data to the Open ASR Leaderboard : 11 splits from Appen and DataOceanAI covering scripted and conversational speech from five accents ( blog ). The community response was great, with many highlighting the importance of held-out sets for trustworthy evaluations .
After partnering with Moises earlier this year, SoundCloud is now adding integration with another AI music platform, ElevenLabs. Now, rather than having to export and download your outputs from ElevenLabs and then upload them to SoundCloud, you can publish them directly.
Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.
GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark, while Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation.
One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you'll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch, or record users' activity all the time and gather all possible context.
Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.