Voice AI
Deepslate Raises €7.7M Seed for European Speech-to-Speech AI
A voice agent can sound almost human until a caller says “Müller-Straße 14b,” reads an IBAN aloud, switches from German to English halfway through a sentence or speaks in a regional dialect. For Deepslate, those are not edge cases. They are the reason to build a European voice model in the first place. The German […]
Tellia Raises €4.3M to Turn Spoken Field Work Into Structured Farm Intelligence
Some of the most valuable information on a farm is created at the exact moment nobody has time to type it down. A vineyard worker notices disease pressure while walking a block, an agronomist spots an irrigation problem from the truck, or a foreman finishes a spray application and immediately moves to the next task. […]
Blue Machines AI Launches Aurora, a BFSI-Native Speech-to-Text Model That Outperforms Leading ASR Models
Built for multilingual and code-mixed Indian financial conversations, Aurora records 1.51% English Semantic WER, 2.43% Hindi BFSI Semantic WER and 236 ms P50 latency in internal benchmarks Bengaluru, September 7, 2026: Blue Machines AI, an advanced agentic CX operating system for enterprises, today announced the launch of Aurora, a multilingual speech-to-text model purpose-built for the […]
Blue Machines AI Launches Floe, a Context-Aware Language Detection Model for Multilingual Enterprise Conversations in India
Proprietary model distinguishes everyday code-mixing from genuine language switches across multimodal voice and chat (WhatsApp, SMS) interactions, supports 10+ Indic languages, and delivers internally measured latency of under 10 milliseconds Bengaluru, 19 August, 2026: Blue Machines AI, an advanced enterprise-grade Conversational AI platform, today announced the launch of Floe, its proprietary context-aware language detection model, […]
Exclusive: Wispr Raises $280M to Make Voice a Serious Computing Interface
Wispr wants speaking to a computer to feel as natural as speaking to another person. Its first product, Flow, turns everyday speech into polished writing across apps, but the larger ambition reaches beyond faster dictation. The company is building toward an interface where people can communicate, create, and eventually act through voice without repeatedly returning […]
Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Enterprise Voice 4.0
Enterprise voice agents can answer calls at scale, but delays, awkward interruptions and disconnected models still make many conversations feel automated. San Francisco-based Smallest.ai has raised a $13 million Series A, taking its total funding to more than $21 million. The round was led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital. […]
Encore AI Secures $30M for Conversation-Trained AI Agents
Encore AI has raised a $30 million Series A, led by Team8, with participation from Planven, Y. Lukatz Tech Investments and The Garage. Several banks and insurers also joined the round after first using Encore’s platform as customers. Their names were not disclosed. Founded in 2022 by Dvir Ginzburg, Encore analyzes calls, emails, messages and […]
telli Raises $15M to Build AI for Customer-Facing Operations
A customer call rarely ends when the conversation does. Someone still has to update the CRM, schedule the appointment, send the confirmation, assign the request and make sure the next action happens. For many consumer businesses, that operational work remains spread across call-center software, ticket queues, dashboards and manual follow-ups. Berlin-based telli has raised $15 […]