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Speech synthesis and speech-to-speech models used for narration, dubbing, and conversational agents, typically sold through APIs on usage-based pricing.
Automation Anywhere has agreed to buy conversational voice AI firm Boost.ai, which has handled more than 150 million automated conversations. The purchase from Nordic Capital takes the automation vendor into regulated-industry customer work in Europe, where Boost.ai's base is concentrated.
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ElevenLabs' $300 million employee tender, led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, values the London voice AI firm at $22 billion, double its February price. The company raises no new cash, so the doubled price comes from roughly 1.4% of its stock changing hands.
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Anthropic is asking Claude users to share voice chats for training, extending a 2025 text policy that keeps opted-in data up to five years. Teams with staff on consumer seats now have a second data setting to check before anyone talks to Claude.
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International Paper led Relay's $36 million round for AI radios that turn what frontline workers say into records and work orders. The payoff for operators depends on crews already reporting by radio and on a maintenance system that takes the tickets.
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Nick Khami's Call4me lets Claude Code, Codex and other MCP agents phone businesses for $0.25 a minute of talk time. Its sample calls show the agent changing real bookings for a user, who still has to check what each business actually agreed to.
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Modulate raised $25 million in a round led by Future Ventures, lifting its total to $60 million for an audio platform that flags synthetic voices. Its detection API costs about eight times its transcription rate, and the round is a bet that the premium survives in financial services and healthcare.
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Modulate raised $25 million led by Future Ventures, lifting the Boston audio-AI company to $60 million in total funding. With transcripts priced at 3 cents an hour, its revenue case rests on the tone and deepfake signals sold on top.
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Treble's Series A extension pays for physics-simulated acoustics that model makers and device teams can use as an alternative to scraped recordings. Paladin Capital Group is betting the test layer becomes shared infrastructure.
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ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski will let gross margins shrink to win share, at a $600 million annual revenue pace and a reported $22 billion valuation. Decagon trained on its voices and now competes with it, so teams buying voice AI should plan to swap the voice itself.
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Internal posts seen by 404 Media say Muse can pass a user's request to a trained human agent who places the call, and one tester learned a person had dialed only afterwards. How often it happens is unclear.
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Air Street Capital led the $40 million Series A for a hiring marketplace where a voice agent debriefs candidates and a second agent debriefs employers. The company says the pair have arranged 25,000 interviews.
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Google positions one live model for high-volume conversation and the other for reasoning that continues while the user is still talking. The product page describes both without performance measurements, token costs or latency figures.
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Carles Reina gave ElevenLabs' 41-month run to $600M-plus ARR on a podcast, and the per-month arithmetic steepens at every leg, though the account carries no retention, gross margin or cost figure for the free tier.
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