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Week 11

9–15 Mar 20262026-W11 · 10 filings · 8 companies · 5 net-new

The Speak, Think, Orchestrate and Connect layers led the week, with 2 filings each.

Hearspeech-to-text1

Devnagri AIPlatformlaunch2026-03-09net-new

Devnagri launches Speech AI with Indic ASR and TTS for enterprise voice workflows

India-focused ASR+TTS platform launch for BFSI/government voice journeys — the stack Black Bird later claims to advance on Voice of India (`2026-09-30-devnagri-black-bird`).

Also SpeakUse

Details2 sources

Devnagri AI launched Speech AI, adding a Conversational Speech Layer (ASR) and Enterprise Voice Generation (TTS) for 15+ major Indian languages into its language infrastructure for contact centres, KYC, collections, and citizen helplines.

Speech AI

Announcementapnews.com

Speaktext-to-speech2

Daily / PipecatPlatformlaunch2026-03-10

Pipecat 0.0.105 adds concurrent Cartesia TTS audio contexts

Overlapping synthesis cuts inter-sentence gaps on Cartesia Sonic pipelines.

Details3 sources

pipecat-ai 0.0.105 lets CartesiaTTSService synthesise the next sentence while the previous still plays, and folds audio context management into TTSService.

pipecat-ai 0.0.105

Announcementgithub.comgithub.com
Fish AudioModel providermodel release2026-03-09net-new

Fish Audio open-sources S2 TTS with inline natural-language control

Open weights plus SGLang streaming for instruction-tagged TTS land in March — the foundation the June free S2.1 Pro API row already assumes.

Details1 source

Fish Audio open-sourced S2, a dual-autoregressive TTS model trained on 10M+ audio hours across ~50 languages, with free-form inline prosody tags, weights, fine-tuning code, and an SGLang streaming engine.

Fish Audio S2 (open weights)

Announcement

ThinkLLMs, speech-to-speech2

NVIDIAModel providermodel release2026-03-11

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Super open hybrid MoE for agentic reasoning

Open 120B/12B-active long-context MoE that Daily already scores near GPT-4.1 on voice-agent instruction/tool benches — a self-host path while hybrid-stack inference tooling for TTFT is still catching up.

Details2 sources

NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-total / 12B-active hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE with a native 1M-token context and open weights, datasets, and recipes.

Nemotron 3 Super

Announcementdaily.co
LiveKitPlatformlaunch2026-03-11

LiveKit Agents 1.4.5 adds Phonic plugin, GPT-5.4, and modality-aware Instructions

Phonic and GPT-5.4 are the think headline.

Details1 source

livekit-agents 1.4.5 adds a Phonic realtime plugin with generate_reply/update_chat_ctx, GPT-5.4 model strings, and modality-aware Instructions.

livekit-agents 1.4.5

Announcement

Orchestrateframeworks, evals2

AgoraPlatformlaunch2026-03-11net-new

Agora launches Conversational AI Agents for customer service and sales

Puts a listed RTC vendor (NASDAQ: API) into the voice-agent orchestration lane beside Twilio/LiveKit-class connect stacks; backfill for roster seed AgoraIO.

Also Connect

Details1 source

Agora unveiled Conversational AI Agent solutions for customer service and sales & marketing on its SDRTN stack, combining Agent Studio, a Conversational AI Engine, and realtime network infrastructure.

Conversational AI Agents

Announcement
Daily / PipecatPlatformlaunch2026-03-10

Pipecat 0.0.105 adds ServiceSwitcher failover strategy

STT/TTS/LLM redundancy becomes a strategy instead of a hand-rolled error handler.

Details3 sources

pipecat-ai 0.0.105 adds ServiceSwitcherStrategyFailover, which advances to the next service on non-fatal errors from the active one.

pipecat-ai 0.0.105

Announcementgithub.comgithub.com

Connecttelephony, channels2

RingCentralPlatformlaunch2026-03-10net-new

RingCentral launches AIR Pro agentic voice AI for contact centres

UCaaS/CCaaS vendor ships a no-code agentic voice builder into its own stack on 10 March — controlled U.S. availability only, so treat GA timing as later.

Also OrchestrateUse

Details3 sources

RingCentral announced AIR Pro, a voice-first omnichannel AI agent platform with no-code AIR Pro Studio, embedded in its business communications and contact centre stack, starting in controlled availability for selected U.S. businesses.

AIR Pro

Announcementbusinesswire.comir.ringcentral.com
Daily / PipecatPlatformAPI2026-03-10

Pipecat 0.0.105 adds Daily custom video tracks and cloud-audio-only recording

Multi-track video and audio-only cloud recording cover avatar-plus-camera and compliance recording cases.

Details3 sources

pipecat-ai 0.0.105 adds video_out_destinations for multiple Daily video tracks and a cloud-audio-only recording option.

pipecat-ai 0.0.105

Announcementgithub.comgithub.com

Useagents in market1

DecagonPlatformlaunch2026-03-09net-new

Decagon ships Proactive Agents with user memory and outbound voice

Outbound calling plus durable user memory moves Decagon from reactive chat concierge into proactive voice outreach — a March ship that was still missing after the week-by-week backfill.

Also ConnectOrchestrate

Details1 source

Decagon launched Proactive Agents, combining cross-channel user memory with outbound voice so AI concierge agents can initiate calls, retain customer context, and run Agent Operating Procedures without engineering tickets for every change.

Proactive Agents (User Memory + Outbound Voice)

Announcement