6 filings, one each in 6 layers.
Predictive turn and interruption models join voice isolation in one pre-STT SDK on 6 May — aimed at the demo-to-production audio gap, not another TTS or CCaaS SKU.
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Krisp launched VIVA 2.0, a server-side CPU SDK that sits before STT with Voice Isolation v3, Turn Prediction v3, Interruption Prediction v1, and signal detectors for synthetic speech, gender, and accent.
Krisp VIVA 2.0
Speech-API surface for Grok on Telnyx's private network; distinct from the August Edge Compute runtime ship already filed.
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Telnyx extended Grok beyond Voice AI Assistants to its TTS and STT APIs, with five expressive TTS voices and the xai/grok-stt transcription model.
xAI Grok TTS and STT API · vendor xAI
Splits realtime voice into reason / translate / transcribe primitives with GPT-5-class agent reasoning on the S2S path — token-priced Realtime-2 vs minute-priced companions changes how builders meter agents.
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OpenAI released three Realtime API audio models: GPT-Realtime-2 (GPT-5-class speech-to-speech reasoning), GPT-Realtime-Translate (70+ input / 13 output languages), and GPT-Realtime-Whisper (streaming transcription), moving real-time audio beyond simple call-and-response.
GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, GPT-Realtime-Whisper
Platform unveil on 5 May underpins the later HAR and Edge ships already on file — without it the SoundHound 2026 arc starts mid-year.
Also ConnectUse
SoundHound AI launched OASYS (Orchestrated Agent System), a platform that builds, orchestrates, evaluates, and improves fleets of multilingual voice and agentic AI agents across phones, chat, kiosks, and in-vehicle channels.
OASYS (Orchestrated Agent System)
Model-agnostic last-mile into Twilio Voice and SMS without per-provider WebSocket glue — complements LiveKit Connectors' later Twilio Voice bridge rather than duplicating it.
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Twilio made Agent Connect generally available: a self-hosted, model-agnostic orchestration SDK that connects OpenAI, Azure, Bedrock, Anthropic, LangChain, or in-house agents to Twilio Voice and Messaging with streaming, barge-in, memory, and human handoff.
Twilio Agent Connect
Named MEDITECH Expanse ambient go-live with pilot adoption stats — Commure’s enterprise ambient path outside Epic-heavy accounts.
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Willis Knighton Health selected Commure Ambient AI as its enterprise ambient scribe after a seven-specialty pilot on MEDITECH Expanse, citing reduced charting time for 88% of participating providers.
Ambient AI × Willis Knighton Health