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Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter

January 19, 2025 | TechCrunch AI
Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter
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

Using MCP Server Tools in Voice Live – Differences from Function Calling and Parallel Tool Calls #AI

March 14, 2015 | Qiita AI
Using MCP Server Tools in Voice Live – Differences from Function Calling and Parallel Tool Calls #AI
@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

Improving Voice Live Audio Input Quality — How to Choose Noise Suppression, Echo Cancellation, and Live-Reference AEC #AI - Qiita

July 20, 2020 | Qiita AI
Improving Voice Live Audio Input Quality — How to Choose Noise Suppression, Echo Cancellation, and Live-Reference AEC #AI - Qiita
@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

Changes to Voice Live SDK 1.2.0 and API GA on 2026-07-15 — Classification of Untyped Features in the SDK #AI - Qiita

November 2, 2017 | Qiita AI
Changes to Voice Live SDK 1.2.0 and API GA on 2026-07-15 — Classification of Untyped Features in the SDK #AI - Qiita
@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

Calling Foundry Agents as Tools in Voice Live – How to Use the Chat-Supervisor Pattern and Choose the Front-End Model #AI - Qiita

August 10, 2015 | Qiita AI
Calling Foundry Agents as Tools in Voice Live – How to Use the Chat-Supervisor Pattern and Choose the Front-End Model #AI - Qiita
@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

Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger

January 6, 2017 | TechCrunch AI
Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
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

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure

April 15, 2025 | TechCrunch AI
Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
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

Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet"

May 28, 2016 | The Decoder
Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet"
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

July 23, 2020 | The Decoder
OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse
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

Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, an AI agent that works for you like Muse (Meta) and Dots (OpenAI) - Numerama

November 1, 2017 | Numerama IA
Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, an AI agent that works for you like Muse (Meta) and Dots (OpenAI) - Numerama
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These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet

April 24, 2026 | TechCrunch AI
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Every week there is a new model or a tool release that claims to sound human and converse like one. However, in reality, that might not be the case. Enterprise voice AI platform PolyAI’s CTO Shawn Wen thinks that despite the release of full-duplex models — which can speak while listening to you — voice AI hasn’t had its “ChatGPT moment” yet. “We have reached the milestone of developing full-duplex models. The next challenge is to make reasoning very fast,

Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution

October 28, 2020 | TechCrunch AI
Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
Meta particularly emphasized Ember’s cost-per-task, using Artificial Analysis’s composite benchmark score to show Ember as cheaper and smarter than competitors like Anthropic’s Haiku and OpenAI’s Luna. Image Credits:Meta Superintelligence Labs At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna. Not only that, it’s cost-competitive with open source competitors like DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5

Alibaba Releases 2026 AI for Good Report: Data Center Computing Power Density Nearly Quintuples in Two Years, Green Electricity Share Reaches 73.6%

October 23, 2017 | 智东西
Alibaba Releases 2026 AI for Good Report: Data Center Computing Power Density Nearly Quintuples in Two Years, Green Electricity Share Reaches 73.6%
Zhidongxi (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Yang Jingli Editor | Li Shuiqing Zhidongxi reported on November 5 that Alibaba released the “Alibaba AI for Good Action Report 2026” today. The report centers on “Full-stack AI, collaborating for good” and proposes that AI development must simultaneously meet three conditions: “socially acceptable, environmentally sustainable, and economically sustainable”. The report’s AI-for-Good initiatives cover he