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An experiment successfully issued voice commands from the ground to a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite and launched the FPS game “DOOM” in space. The system worked by having AI onboard the satellite recognize the voice and launch the game. Seven experiments were conducted from April through July 2026, ultimately succeeding in control through speech spoken directly by a human. First Voice Command of a Satellite Achieved Through ESA’s OPS-SAT Space Lab

@lhjjjk4(KD Agentic)TAG14@@AI Daily News — November 11, 2026: Claude Becomes an Office Suite, ChatGPT Adds Business Agents, Google Adds Two New TPU TypesAIBusinessHardwareVoice0Posted on 2026-11-10TAG40@@TAG44 AI Daily Digest · November 11, 2026 1. Anthropic Expands Claude into an Office Suite (Announcement on the First Day of the IPO Roadshow) Anthropic announced on November 10 at an event in San Francisco a suite of tools that expands Claude from a chat-

@e-takin株式会社NEXT TECHNOLOGYBuilding an Autonomous AI Agent with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH: A Story of Wanting to “Take Control of My Life”RaspberryPiAIAWS音声認識codex0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10 Table of Contents About This Article Part One: Hardware Configuration of the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH Part Two: Voice Processing and Response Pathways Part Three: Integrated Features and Design Principles Overall Summary Supplement: Technologies Mentio

Now, it’s revisiting one of its first major AI features, taking a cue from the personalization options other AI assistants routinely offer. With the update, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to choose from an expanded set of AI DJ voices in both English and Spanish. The voices include seven English options with British, American, Irish, Australian, and Indian accents, and two new Spanish options. The different voices will have their own unique perso

@miyaura(Miyaura)Using MCP Server Tools in Voice Live - Differences from Function Calling and Parallel Tool CallsAzureMicrosoftFoundryVoiceLiveAPIMCPAI0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10 Trying MCP Server Tools in Voice Live I wanted a voice-conversation agent to be able to look things up using external tools, so I tried it with the Voice Live API. The Voice Live API is an API for building agents that converse using voice. There are two ways to

@miyaura(Miyaura)Improve Voice Live Audio Input Quality — How to Choose Noise Suppression, Echo Cancellation, and Live-Reference AECAzureMicrosoftFoundryVoiceLiveAPIdotnetAI0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10 Introduction In voice agents, the quality of the sound entering the microphone matters more than you might expect. Noise and audio bleeding in from the speaker can throw off not only speech recognition accuracy, but also speech-segment det

@miyaura(Miyaura)Changes in Voice Live SDK 1.2.0 and API 2026-07-15 GA - Classifying Features Without Types in the SDKAzureMicrosoftFoundryVoiceLiveAPIdotnetAI0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10 A Look at What Changed in Voice Live SDK 1.2.0 Microsoft Foundry's Voice Live API is an API for building agents that converse using voice. Its .NET SDK (Azure.AI.VoiceLive) had reached version 1.2.0, so I wanted to take a look at the available features

@miyaura(Miyaura)Handling the "Pauses" in Conversations with the Voice Live API - Speaking First, Waiting for a Hesitation, Interrupting, and Speaking During Wait TimesAzureMicrosoftFoundryVoiceLiveAPIdotnetAITAG30@@0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10

@miyaura(Miyaura)Calling Foundry Agents as Tools in Voice Live - How to Use the chat-supervisor Pattern and Choose a Front-End ModelAzureMicrosoftFoundryVoiceLiveAPIAIAgentAITAG28@@TAG30@@0TAG34@@Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10

The startup was founded by Carlo Edoardo Ferraris, who previously founded tech accessories company Rolling Square. After years of building consumer hardware, he became convinced that rapidly advancing AI needed a new kind of interface that lets people ask for what they want the way they’d ask a person. The idea behind Interface is to help people look up from their phones while getting everyday tasks done more quickly and naturally. At launch, the ring will

Guy Weiss is building Zenzap, a private messenger with AI that wants to help companies communicate with their staff and arm them with their organization’s context while staying in line with IT and security rules. The company has raised $44 million in funding from investors including Bessemer, Lightspeed, and The Garage, as well as individual investors Wix president Nir Zohar and former GM of EY, Yoram Tietz. The fundraise is interesting because Weiss is ra

Founded in 2024 on the basis of research done in Macquarie University in Sydney, the Australian startup deploys thousands of AI agents that masquerade as innocent victims. The agents can answer scam calls, respond to shady messages and emails, follow phishing links, and join social media groups to bait fraudsters. They pretend to be people of all stripes, sporting different ages, genders, and accents, and speak various languages as they try to keep scammer

Last year, Yelp debuted its voice solution for restaurants and service providers. With this new feature, the discovery platform is fulfilling the consumer side of the equation, though there is a possibility that a user’s agent will talk to the restaurant’s agent, and agent-to-agent communication might break down the conversation. Image Credits:Yelp The company is also updating its Yelp AI assistant that helps users discover restaurants and services. With t

“Super disappointing, as they went for maximum anthropomorphism of the technology and full doomer mode,” Delangue wrote in a post on X. “I spent more than two hours with them trying to correct all their mistakes and ground this in reality, explaining that agents are technological systems, not aliens. But it looks like the drive to scare people for maximum views was too strong.” To be fair, the documentary does have experts who explained what happened fairl

Dessa is a full-duplex model, which means it can talk and listen at the same time, just like the GPT-Live model OpenAI released earlier this year. Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa’s knowledge stems from the conversational data it has. We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built

The companies didn’t disclose the deal amount but said that they will keep Pipecat open source. For the uninitiated, Pipecat is a framework that manages voice and video streams along with other pieces in the pipeline, like speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) models while reducing latency. Its maker, Daily, provides hosted infrastructure for voice and video calls of any kind. With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a

Rivian is now licensing elements of its AI voice assistant technology to Volkswagen Group as part of the broader joint venture, according to the company’s third-quarter investor presentation released Thursday. Rivian didn’t disclose the licensing fees, payment terms, or which Volkswagen vehicles will use the technology. However, the AI assistant, which recently rolled out to Rivian vehicles, could make its Volkswagen debut in the automaker’s low-cost EV ca

Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet" Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 22, 2026 Anthropic / GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic has released a preview of "Claude Duet," an app where an AI agent handles tasks for the user in the background. The app runs on cloud computers and connects to outside services like Gmail, Slack, and Stripe.

OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 29, 2026 OpenAI Key Points At its DevDay 2026 developer conference, OpenAI introduced "Dots," always-on AI agents that run around the clock on their own cloud computers and handle tasks like research, data analysis, and coding by themselves. Users can reach the agents through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. When no one

The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate Manuel Uth Nov 8, 2026 AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArticle", "headline": "The brain-as-computer met