ByteDance launches an AI voice assistant powered by its Doubao LLM, available first on ZTE's Nubia M153 smartphone prototype; Doubao has an estimated 159M MAUs
Microsoft unveils Mico, a new character for Copilot's voice mode that responds with real-time expressions and is enabled by default, available in the US
Today, we're dropping the Copilot Fall Release, a big step forward … Sean Lyndersay / Windows Blog : Meet Copilot Mode in Edge: Your AI browser Microsoft Copilot on YouTube : Copilot Sessions: Fall Up...
Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Google Assistant on smart speakers, with new voices and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app
and the new Google Home Speaker ✨ Gemini for Home, so you can talk and collaborate more naturally with your [image] @madebygoogle : Gemini magic ✨ is coming to your #NestMini, #NestAudio & #NestHub. W...
OpenAI makes its Realtime API generally available with features like MCP support and debuts gpt-realtime, its most advanced speech-to-speech model, in the API
[video] @liodakis : Congrats to @pbbakkum on shipping gpt-realtime! It's been awesome watching him and the multimodal team sweat the details and get to a GA quality multimodal model. It's crazy to thi...
Tesla plans to roll out in-car voice assistant features powered by DeepSeek and ByteDance's Doubao in China; Tesla vehicles in the US use Grok
Tesla Inc. plans to introduce in-car voice assistant functions powered by Deepseek and Bytedance Ltd.'s Doubao artificial intelligence as it aims …
Google announces Gemini for Home, a Google Home voice assistant with Gemini Live, available in early access in October and eventually replacing Google Assistant
what you need to know Nickolas Diaz / Android Central : Google's AI surprise gave a sneak peek at an all-new smart speaker Stephen Schenck / Android Authority : Gemini for Home is coming to replace As...
Perplexity's iOS app enables support for the company's conversational AI voice assistant, letting users ask the chatbot to write emails, set reminders, and more
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Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting an emotional connection to the voice assistant
In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants.
Amazon's AGI team lead Rohit Prasad says Alexa will relaunch as an AI agent, as Amazon works to address the challenges that have dogged the system's AI overhaul
Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays as Big Tech group toils to overcome technical hurdles
WaveForms, which aims to create AI assistants that pick up on emotional cues from verbal interactions, raised a $40M seed from a16z at a $200M valuation
WaveForms wants to help people have better spoken conversations with machines. — A lead researcher behind OpenAI's voice assistant …