Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard
huggingface.co — We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Speech to Text
Speech to text is the automated transcription of spoken audio into written text using machine learning models. Truncated covers research developments, transcription accuracy benchmarks, software library releases, and hardware acceleration.
This 3-in-1 AI voice clone is only $35 for life with this promo code
PCWorld — AnyToSpeech is an AI voice tool for speech-to-text, voice cloning, and transcription, and it's only $35 for life.
Bayworks has launched an app that lets car dealership technicians say what they fixed on a car out loud and automatical…
Gboard beta hints at a smarter Rambler that learns your words and contact names
Android Authority — Gboard’s voice dictation feature, Rambler, may soon get a lot better by remembering contact names and corrected words.
I tried Apple's Siri Recaps. They're surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
TechCrunch — Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
Pebble Qore Vox Adds Wrist Microphone to Screenless Band Formula, Launching in India Today
Tech Times — Pebble Qore Vox launches in India at Rs. 5,799 intro price, combining on-device AI transcription in 32 languages with a four-photodiode PPG health suite in a screenless band. No subscription fee needed for transcription, Recovery Score, or Daily AI Health Report; the 10-day battery reflects the
Apple Watch's AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing
TechCrunch — Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.
The best speech recognition you can run at home is absolutely tiny, and it runs on a ten-year-old laptop
XDA — I dictated an entire article on an old laptop, and it cost me nothing but 2GB of RAM
Introducing Managed Agents
Cartesia — Today, we’re launching Cartesia Managed Agents, our end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprise conversations.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt
huggingface.co — A Blog post by NVIDIA on Hugging Face
Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr
TechCrunch — Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
The fastest, lowest-cost batch transcription with Qwen3-ASR
Baseten — Transcribe an hour of audio with Qwen3-ASR for 1/10th of a cent, with 7x higher throughput, 6.9x lower latency, and no meaningful effect on quality.
Raise Financial Services x Cartesia: Voice AI for Financial Access in India
Cartesia — Raise Financial Services, the Indian company building Dhan, Millions, and fuzz, is developing multilingual voice experiences with Cartesia for Indian financial markets.
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