Week 7, 9–15 Feb 2026 · hotwired.news

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VCONICPlatformpartnership2026-02-10net-new

VCONIC partners with Speechmatics for healthcare and FS conversation intelligence

Second Speechmatics enterprise wiring in the same week (before Boost.ai on 12 February) — conversation intelligence in healthcare/FS rather than a full CCaaS agent stack.

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VCONIC and Speechmatics announced a strategic partnership to bring Speechmatics speech recognition into VCONIC's conversation-intelligence platform for healthcare and financial-services use cases.

VCONIC × Speechmatics · vendor Speechmatics

Announcement

Daily / PipecatPlatformlaunch2026-02-10

Pipecat 0.0.102 adds OpenAI Realtime STT and Sarvam saaras:v3

Realtime transcription without a full S2S session becomes a first-class STT service.

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pipecat-ai 0.0.102 adds OpenAIRealtimeSTTService, Sarvam saaras:v3 STT modes, and STTMetadataFrame for P99 latency broadcast at pipeline start.

pipecat-ai 0.0.102

Announcement github.com github.com

Speaktext-to-speech1

Daily / PipecatPlatformlaunch2026-02-10

Pipecat 0.0.102 adds Resemble TTS and cross-service TTS context IDs

Context IDs let word timestamps and interruptions stay aligned across streaming TTS providers.

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pipecat-ai 0.0.102 adds ResembleAITTSService and a context_id TTS tracking system across 30+ TTS implementations, plus Sarvam bulbul:v3-beta and OpenAI marin/cedar voices.

pipecat-ai 0.0.102

Announcement github.com github.com

Showavatars, video2

Daily / PipecatPlatformAPI2026-02-10

Pipecat 0.0.102 adds HeyGen LiveAvatar sandbox and video settings

Developers can exercise LiveAvatar without production session billing defaults.

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pipecat-ai 0.0.102 adds is_sandbox and video_settings on LiveAvatarNewSessionRequest, and defaults LiveAvatar session mode to LITE with VP8.

pipecat-ai 0.0.102

Announcement github.com github.com

LemonSliceModel providerpartnership2026-02-10net-new

LemonSlice plugs real-time avatars into LiveKit Agents

Company-side primary for the avatar plugin pattern this corpus already tracks from the LiveKit Agents and Pipecat changelogs.

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LemonSlice’s LiveKit integration puts its real-time avatars into a LiveKit Agents pipeline so developers keep their own VAD, STT, LLM, and TTS choices.

LemonSlice for LiveKit · vendor LiveKit

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ThinkLLMs, speech-to-speech1

Daily / PipecatPlatformlaunch2026-02-10

Pipecat 0.0.102 adds automatic LLM context summarisation

Long sessions can stay within context windows without custom summariser processors.

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pipecat-ai 0.0.102 adds context summarisation that compresses conversation history at token or message limits, with summary request/result frames.

pipecat-ai 0.0.102

Announcement github.com github.com

Orchestrateframeworks, evals1

Daily / PipecatPlatformlaunch2026-02-13

Daily releases open STT benchmark measuring TTFS and semantic WER

Gives operators a voice-agent-shaped STT scorecard — latency tails plus LLM-facing accuracy — instead of lab WER alone, and wires the same TTFS numbers into Pipecat's context aggregator.

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Daily and Pipecat open-sourced an STT benchmark that scores realtime voice-agent transcription on Time To Final Segment latency and Semantic WER across 10 services on 1,000 real-speech samples.

STT benchmark for voice agents

Announcement github.com

Connecttelephony, channels2

Boost.aiPlatformpartnership2026-02-12net-new

Boost.ai partners with Speechmatics for regulated European Voice AI

Nordic conversational-AI leader wires production ASR from Speechmatics for regulated EU/US voice — dialect and on-prem posture matter more than a new foundation model.

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Boost.ai and Speechmatics announced a partnership integrating Speechmatics speech recognition into Boost.ai's conversational AI platform for banking, insurance, healthcare, and public-sector voice deployments in Europe and the US.

Boost.ai × Speechmatics Voice AI · vendor Speechmatics

Announcement

GenesysPlatformlaunch2026-02-10net-new

Genesys unveils Agentic Virtual Agent powered by large action models

CCaaS-native agentic resolution with a LAM partner lands in February — months before the September APT-2 and ElevenLabs/Deepgram voice pack already on file.

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Genesys announced Genesys Cloud Agentic Virtual Agent, pairing Scaled Cognition's APT-1 large action model with Cloud governance so virtual agents can plan and execute multistep CX workflows across enterprise systems.

Genesys Cloud Agentic Virtual Agent (LAM) · vendor Scaled Cognition

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