Voice AI

Kardome Brings AI Voice Interaction Home With Cognition AI

Kardome Brings AI Voice Interaction Home With Cognition AI
Kardome Brings AI Voice Interaction Home With Cognition AI
January 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Kardome has debuted a tool designed to bring voice interaction to cars, homes and workplaces. Those are all places where traditional systems struggle, the voice...

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Could Voice Emerge as the Payments Power Tool?
Could Voice Emerge as the Payments Power Tool?
December 17, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: i2c’s John Bresnahan Businesses are finally (and finely) honing their 21st-century competitive edges. The result? Advancement across the marketplace...

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Gradium Gets $70 Million to Turn Voice Into AI’s Universal Interface
Gradium Gets $70 Million to Turn Voice Into AI’s Universal Interface
December 02, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

By any conventional startup logic, raising a $70 million seed round sounds improbable. Double that improbability for a business just exiting from stealth after being...

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Amazon Employing AI to Help Shoppers Comb Reviews
Amazon Employing AI to Help Shoppers Comb Reviews
September 14, 2025  |  Retail

Amazon earlier this year began rolling out artificial intelligence-voiced product descriptions for select customers and products. Now, the company’s “Hear the Highlights” feature has extended...

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Microsoft Unveils VibeVoice for Longer Conversational AI Audio
Microsoft Unveils VibeVoice for Longer Conversational AI Audio
September 02, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft has released VibeVoice, a new open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model that lets users create podcasts and other audio — a counter to Google’s popular...

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OpenAI Says New Speech-to-Speech Model Designed for Customer Support
OpenAI Says New Speech-to-Speech Model Designed for Customer Support
August 28, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI has released what it calls its “most advanced speech-to-speech model yet.” Dubbed gpt-realtime, the model is better at following complex instructions, calling tools with...

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Taco Bell Finds Voice AI Still Needs a Human Touch
Taco Bell Finds Voice AI Still Needs a Human Touch
August 28, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Taco Bell is reportedly rethinking how it deploys voice artificial intelligence (AI) in its drive-through locations. After adding the technology to take orders at more...

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Vox AI Raises $8.7 Million to Bring Voice AI to Restaurants
Vox AI Raises $8.7 Million to Bring Voice AI to Restaurants
August 27, 2025  |  Investments

Restaurant-focused voice AI platform Vox AI has raised $8.7 million in seed funding. The new financing, announced Wednesday (Aug. 27), will allow the company to speed its expansion of...

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