This week Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend T U E +2 Covered by 5 sources 2d ago Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster H M Covered by 2 sources 4d ago Voxtral 3 M M Covered by 2 sources 5d ago A Coding Guide to Cactus Whistle: Does a 16.9 MB Speech Model Hold Up Against Whisper Base? Word Error Rate, Speed, Streaming, Timestamps, Keywords, and Speech-to-Tool Calls on a CPU M MarkTechPost 4d ago How Deepgram optimized voice AI at scale with AWS Trainium A AWS Blog 6d ago This month Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint H U Covered by 2 sources 10d ago Grok Voice 3.0 from SpaceXSI outscores OpenAI and Google on speech-to-speech index U S T +1 Covered by 4 sources 11d ago Code-Switching Detection via Language-Selective Dimensions in Speech Foundation Models A Apple Research Blog 12d ago TII Releases Falcon-ASR: 1.6B Arabic Speech Model Hits 20.92% WER M MarkTechPost 14d ago Willow taps CoreWeave to simplify AI model training S SiliconANGLE 17d ago Introducing Falcon ASR H Hugging Face 18d ago Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting T The Next Web 20d ago SpeechShield P Product Hunt 21d ago Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming: #1 Real-Time Speech-to-Text Model on Artificial Analysis M MarkTechPost 23d ago Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model V U S Covered by 3 sources 25d ago Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning H Hugging Face 26d ago SuperWhisper s1-mini: The 600M Parameter Model Built Just for Transcription K KDnuggets 26d ago Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak M MarkTechPost 27d ago Gemini 3.5 Transcribe vs OpenAI’s GPT-Transcribe K KDnuggets 27d ago Sarvam AI Releases Saaras V4: A Speech-to-Text Model for All 22 Indian Languages and Global English M MarkTechPost 29d ago Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI A AWS Blog Sep 24 **Know Who Spoke When: Build Real-Time, Multi-Speaker AI with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization** H M Covered by 2 sources Sep 23 Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space Distillation A Apple Research Blog Sep 24 Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on. U M T Covered by 3 sources Sep 18 GPT-6 Astra 🚀, Grok Bot Enterprise 🤖, Runway world model 🌎 U T Covered by 2 sources Sep 3 Meta's new AI transcription model can distinguish between multiple speakers and languages in real-time 9 T E +1 Covered by 4 sources Sep 1 Verba: Learn a language by talking to an AI never touches the internet H Hacker News Sep 1 The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language H Hugging Face Aug 28 Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics A AWS Blog Aug 27 Reduce ASR inference costs by 75% with NVIDIA MPS on Amazon EC2 A AWS Blog Aug 27 IBM Says Granite Speech 5.0 Transcribes 3.5 Hours of Speech in One Second U Unite.AI Aug 25 Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished A T Covered by 2 sources Aug 17 Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation T TechCrunch Aug 17 USC Study Finds AI Is Better at Reading Than Listening H Hacker News Aug 17 Zen Whisper P Product Hunt Jul 31 PolyAI Releases Dialog-RSN-1: An Audio-Native Dialog Model That Fuses Turn-Taking, Speech Recognition, Function Calling, And Response M MarkTechPost Jul 31 Babbel is the linguist-created app millions use to learn new languages M Mashable Jul 30 How to Fine-Tune Nemotron 3.5 ASR for Your Language, Domain, or Accent H Hugging Face Jun 4 Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway. T TechCrunch May 10 The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked T TechCrunch May 2 These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings T TechCrunch Mar 20 Fine-tuning NVIDIA Nemotron Speech ASR on Amazon EC2 for domain adaptation A AWS Blog Mar 12 Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock A AWS Blog Mar 9 Granite 4.0 1B Speech: Compact, Multilingual, and Built for the Edge H Hugging Face Mar 9 That's everything we have on Speech Recognition right now