Updates on Speech Recognition

Every AI story we track on Speech Recognition: 44 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

Machine Learning2 min read

Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

Covered by 5 sources
Machine Learning5 min read

Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster

Covered by 2 sources
Machine Learning46 min read

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

MarkTechPost
Machine Learning8 min read

How Deepgram optimized voice AI at scale with AWS Trainium

AWS Blog

This month

Machine Learning4 min read

Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint

Covered by 2 sources
Agents4 min read

Grok Voice 3.0 from SpaceXSI outscores OpenAI and Google on speech-to-speech index

Covered by 4 sources
Machine Learning2 min read

Code-Switching Detection via Language-Selective Dimensions in Speech Foundation Models

Apple Research Blog
Machine Learning5 min read

TII Releases Falcon-ASR: 1.6B Arabic Speech Model Hits 20.92% WER

MarkTechPost
Machine Learning3 min read

Willow taps CoreWeave to simplify AI model training

SiliconANGLE

Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting

The Next Web
Machine Learning4 min read

Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming: #1 Real-Time Speech-to-Text Model on Artificial Analysis

MarkTechPost
Machine Learning5 min read

Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model

Covered by 3 sources
Machine Learning6 min read

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

Hugging Face
Machine Learning7 min read

SuperWhisper s1-mini: The 600M Parameter Model Built Just for Transcription

KDnuggets

Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak

MarkTechPost
Machine Learning6 min read

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe vs OpenAI’s GPT-Transcribe

KDnuggets
Machine Learning5 min read

Sarvam AI Releases Saaras V4: A Speech-to-Text Model for All 22 Indian Languages and Global English

MarkTechPost

Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI

AWS Blog
Machine Learning16 min read

**Know Who Spoke When: Build Real-Time, Multi-Speaker AI with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization**

Covered by 2 sources
Machine Learning2 min read

Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space Distillation

Apple Research Blog
Machine Learning4 min read

Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

Covered by 3 sources
Machine Learning6 min read

GPT-6 Astra 🚀, Grok Bot Enterprise 🤖, Runway world model 🌎

Covered by 2 sources

Meta's new AI transcription model can distinguish between multiple speakers and languages in real-time

Covered by 4 sources
Education4 min read

Verba: Learn a language by talking to an AI never touches the internet

Hacker News
Machine Learning14 min read

The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

Hugging Face
Machine Learning10 min read

Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics

AWS Blog
Machine Learning16 min read

Reduce ASR inference costs by 75% with NVIDIA MPS on Amazon EC2

AWS Blog
Machine Learning5 min read

IBM Says Granite Speech 5.0 Transcribes 3.5 Hours of Speech in One Second

Unite.AI

Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished

Covered by 2 sources

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

TechCrunch

USC Study Finds AI Is Better at Reading Than Listening

Hacker News
Dev1 min read

Zen Whisper

Product Hunt
Agents4 min read

PolyAI Releases Dialog-RSN-1: An Audio-Native Dialog Model That Fuses Turn-Taking, Speech Recognition, Function Calling, And Response

MarkTechPost
Education2 min read

Babbel is the linguist-created app millions use to learn new languages

Mashable

How to Fine-Tune Nemotron 3.5 ASR for Your Language, Domain, or Accent

Hugging Face

Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway.

TechCrunch

The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked

TechCrunch

These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings

TechCrunch

Fine-tuning NVIDIA Nemotron Speech ASR on Amazon EC2 for domain adaptation

AWS Blog

Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Blog

Granite 4.0 1B Speech: Compact, Multilingual, and Built for the Edge

Hugging Face
That's everything we have on Speech Recognition right now