ElevenLabs appoints Karthik Rajaram General Manager and Country Head for IndiaAI audio firm ElevenLabs has appointed Karthik Rajaram as its India head. Rajaram will lead strategy and revenue growth. He brings extensiv...
20 Jan, 2026, 10.25 AM IST
Google launches native audio model in Gemini Live APIIn a social media blog post, Google explained that the two key additions: more robust function calling and more natural conversations.
25 Sep, 2025, 12.08 AM IST
Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveFormsMeta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a startup using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and mimic emotion in audio. Founded by for...
08 Aug, 2025, 10.52 AM IST
Conversational AI platform Rifa AI raises $1.1 million from Seaborne CapitalThe fresh funds will be used to scale the startup’s operations in North America and enter new sectors. It competes with the likes of Leena ...
05 Aug, 2025, 10.01 AM IST
Meta continues acquisition spree, grabs voice AI startup PlayAIMeta has acquired voice AI startup Play AI, further deepening its push into artificial intelligence. The move comes amid a wave of strategi...
14 Jul, 2025, 03.33 PM IST
Can you be emotionally reliant on an AI voice? OpenAI says yesThe voice feature was announced this spring as part of the ChatGPT app's newest model, known as GPT-4o. The new version of ChatGPT was unve...
10 Aug, 2024, 10.22 AM IST
Faking an honest woman: Why Russia, China and big tech firms use faux females to get clicksWhether it's Chinese or Russian propaganda agencies, online scammers or AI chatbots, it pays to be female - proving that while technology m...
13 Jun, 2024, 12.26 AM IST
OpenAI unveils new AI model, releases GPT-4o to all users for freeOpenAI researchers showed off ChatGPT's new voice assistant capabilities. In one demonstration, the ChatGPT voice assistant was able to rea...
14 May, 2024, 07.24 AM IST
OpenAI makes paid ChatGPT feature free for all users, jokes about company's recent CEO dramaPreviously exclusive to paying subscribers, this move comes amidst leadership changes, including the firing and rehiring of CEO Sam Altman.
23 Nov, 2023, 02.43 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: ChatGPT extends voice feature to free users; here’s how to use itThe company collaborated with professional voice actors to create each voice and used Whisper, its open-source speech recognition system, t...
22 Nov, 2023, 04.11 PM IST
OpenAI gives ChatGPT the ability to speak in five different voicesArtificial intelligence startup OpenAI is rolling out a feature for its ChatGPT app that lets the chatbot respond to spoken questions and c...
25 Sep, 2023, 07.17 PM IST
AI4Bharat researchers to raise $12 million from Peak XV, Lightspeed for own firmVivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, who worked on developing AI models for speech recognition and translation at AI4Bharat, are launching a ...
08 Jul, 2023, 07.30 PM IST
AI4Bharat researchers to raise $12 million from Peak XV, Lightspeed for own firmThe larger-than-usual seed funding round underscores the growing interest in generative AI, after OpenAI's ChatGPT dazzled users with its a...
08 Jul, 2023, 07.04 PM IST
Backed by tech, consumer interaction with brands and purchases will see significant changes in 2023Over the next few years, we can expect to see a shift from live-agent assisted voice to AI-driven voice responses on IVRs in customer suppo...
29 Dec, 2022, 12.09 PM IST
Speech technology startup Murf AI raises $10 million in funding led by Matrix PartnersThe startup will use the funds to drive further product innovation, accelerate research and development, as well as scale its presence in f...
21 Sep, 2022, 11.52 AM IST
Microsoft introduces Hindi, Indian English to Neural Text-to- Speech serviceNeural TTS is a part of the Azure Cognitive Services and converts text to lifelike speech for a more natural interface. The service also pr...
25 Aug, 2020, 12.43 PM IST
Vin Diesel teases involvement in Marvel's 'Inhumans'Diesel posted a photo of him wearing a black shirt with 'Inhumans' logo on the chest on Facebook.
30 Dec, 2014, 10.02 AM IST