The Orchestrate and Use layers led the week, with 4 filings each.
TTS streaming protocol upgrades.
livekit-agents 1.6.6 exposes Fish Audio temperature/top_p/bitrate/normalize options and uses Waves continuous WebSocket streaming for SmallestAI TTS.
livekit-agents 1.6.6
Keeps the July consumer Lite SKU distinct from October’s CWM-1 Lite so the two are not merged into one price story. An undated docs page citing $0.039/min was not used as this row’s price.
LemonSlice Lite is a lower-cost interactive avatar model for consumer apps with large audiences, announced in the Week 29 shipping log along with an ElevenLabs voice-agent import.
LemonSlice Lite
Runtime model swapping is a major orchestration affordance.
livekit-agents 1.6.6 adds Agent.update_models() to swap STT/VAD/LLM/TTS at runtime and per-tool options with progress updates on MCPToolset.
livekit-agents 1.6.6
Sierra is selling work that finishes over weeks (loans, prior auths), beside the six-minute phone call it already ran.
Sierra announced Horizon for agents that pursue multi-day, week, or month outcomes such as loan origination and healthcare prior authorisation, with a context engine and outcome-based pricing.
Horizon
Two topics have dominated our recent discussions with CEO - differentiation and tokenomics. Horizon is Sierra’s answer to both. @btaylor on tokenomics with @Kr00ney.
https://x.com/SierraPlatform/status/2077794548177391690
Enterprise agent-platform vendor ships first-party voice GA rather than gateway glue — first dated 2026 Druid product row.
Also SpeakHearConnect
Druid 9.27 made Druid Voice generally available as a unified conversational voice stack with proprietary STT/TTS fine-tuned for banking, insurance, healthcare, higher education, and retail.
Druid Voice
Dated GA for a Voice-Ops eval layer; prior pass dismissed IssueWire as undated/low-signal — the wire carries 14 July 2026.
Vattara AI announced general availability of Evals Agent, a vendor-neutral platform that runs synthetic voice conversations and scores agents on its CLEAR framework before production.
Evals Agent
Fills the Tarush-roster Raintree stub with a dated 2026 voice-RCM acquisition — agents inside the EMR, not a bolted-on phone tree.
Raintree announced it acquired Spike Technologies so agentic voice agents for payer calls, claim follow-up, eligibility, prior authorisation and patient outreach run native to its rehabilitation EHR.
Spike Technologies acquisition
Dated SI productisation of OpenAI multimodal voice for contact centres with unnamed clients — file as enabler, not an invented operator row.
Also OrchestrateSpeak
PwC US launched agentic contact and service solutions developed with OpenAI, centred on an AI-powered voice and digital agent capability plus a joint Center of Excellence for enterprise deployments.
Agentic contact and service solutions (with OpenAI) · vendor OpenAI
A telco with live LINEMO numbers taking exclusive Japan distribution is a stronger enterprise signal than another lab blog post.
SoftBank and Sierra formed a strategic partnership on 13 Jul 2026; from 14 Jul SoftBank is Sierra’s exclusive partner in Japan, selling Agent OS (voice and text) to Japanese enterprises.
Sierra Agent OS (Japan exclusive) · vendor Sierra
Puts insurance voice AI on the Guidewire distribution path with straight-through ClaimCenter write-back, which is the difference between a demo IVR and a claims system of record.
Liberate shipped a Voice First Notice of Loss accelerator that takes insurance claim calls with AI voice agents, validates policies in PolicyCenter, and submits claims into Guidewire ClaimCenter.
Voice FNOL Accelerator for Guidewire ClaimCenter