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Max Friedlander was building voice agents for service businesses when a LinkedIn message changed his trajectory. Ian, one of the founders of Petrarch, reached out to pick his brain about voice AI data. Max told them the idea wouldn't work. They kept ...
These tips grew out of my conversations with AI: asking questions, exploring alternatives, and learning along the way. I’m sharing what…...
This event summary was created by Claude with light editing by Tim O’Reilly, based on a transcript of the event....
Zoom has come a long way from its origins as a video conferencing platform. It’s built a complete business phone system and continues to expand its capabilities. In August 2025, Zoom Phone released an AI receptionist. There’s even a standalone versio...
Share your voice on how data teams are navigating the agentic era. Take the survey and you’ll get early access to the 2027 State of Analytics Engineering Report....
You built your reputation one conversation at a time. The question now is whether you can keep that up as more people show up asking for help....
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B A4B is an open-weight, offline speech-and-audio model that turns recordings and text instructions into text. It supports transcription, translation, speaker-attributed and contextual transcription, timestamps, langu...
Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than ...
Ramazan Eren Arslan turned a Deutsche Bundespost FeTAp 791 rotary telephone into a voice assistant, with the build documented on Hackster.io. Lift the handset and talk, and Google Gemini answers through the original earpiece....
Ananthu Ashok, writing at Open Source For You, covers Hermes, an open source push-to-talk voice assistant that pairs an ESP32 with a Windows PC. The project comes from developer ROHITCRAFTSYT and is released under the MIT license, with firmware, wiri...
Twilio is powerful but wiring it into bank or insurer workflows without a centralized layer means fragile, undocumented logic that fails compliance reviews.
AI agents need shared business context to deliver trusted insights. Without consistent definitions for metrics such as “revenue” and “pipeline,” business logic remains scattered across queries, reports, and applications, creating repeated work and po...
Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading
the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common
tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I
do this my desir...
Subtitle: Good transcription includes knowing when the recording does not support a confident answer....
Key takeaways Only 24 percent of organizations can fully inspect AI traffic without impacting performance, according to Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report. →Voice agents are easy to talk into things. Researchers got a leading realtime voice mod...
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is NVIDIA's open-weight speech-to-text model for recordings. Specs, accuracy, 40 languages, license, and how to run it.
LALAL.AI’s plugin family has grown. Alongside Stem Separator, our VST plugin that isolates vocals, drums, piano, bass, and both electric and acoustic guitars right inside a DAW, there are two new arrivals built around the human voice: Speech Cleaner ...
Minion lets nunu.ai's AI testing agents run game tests on your own Windows PC or Android phone. Test payments, VPNs, local builds and devices we don't have.