Daily / Pipecat@pipecat_ai
Pipecat releases PhoneLLM Alpha 1 and PhoneBench
Pipecat released an open-weights (BSD) voice-agent LLM fine-tune of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano, plus PhoneBench, a phone-agent eval for accuracy, style, latency, and cost.
Small open MoE for phone-agent tool calls, with a published cost/latency bench. Example self-host cost ~$0.0025/min at high concurrency on B200 via Modal.
Cartesia@cartesia
Cartesia Sonic-3.6: streaming TTS, 44 languages, sub-90ms TTFA
Cartesia shipped Sonic-3.6, a streaming TTS model claiming #1 on both Artificial Analysis speech arenas across 44 languages with sub-90ms time-to-first-audio.
44-language streaming TTS with a sub-90ms TTFA claim. Treat the Artificial Analysis #1 as vendor-cited. Adds Odia, Urdu, and Hinglish code-switch.
Sonic-3.6 is now generally available. In January we made a bet: stop tuning the existing paradigm, rebuild from the architecture up.
https://x.com/cartesia/status/2093017207185821705
Google@Google
Gemini Live adds voice-driven Spark tasks, Daily Brief, and Gmail triage
Google expanded Gemini Live with voice-driven multi-step Spark tasks, a spoken Daily Brief, hands-free Gmail triage, and Personal Intelligence memory.
Voice can start multi-step Gemini jobs across Docs/Sheets/Drive (AI Pro+) and a spoken inbox (AI Plus+), on the same day as Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe replaces Chirp 3 for many developer workflows
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for smart STT in live streaming and pre-recorded modes, replacing Chirp 3 for many developer workflows.
Google’s best ASR on the same Live API path as Gemini voice. Vendor: ~70% faster time-to-final versus Chirp 3. Artificial Analysis WER ~4.0% streaming / 2.6% non-streaming.
We're introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, our most precise speech-to-text model yet
https://x.com/Google/status/2092659278632894576
NiCE Cognigy@cognigy
NiCE Cognigy Agentic Building: coding agents ship CX voice agents over MCP
NiCE Cognigy launched Agentic Building via an open-source Agent Plugin so coding assistants (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor) can create, test, and deploy Cognigy voice and chat agents from the IDE.
CCaaS is exposing the agent lifecycle to coding agents in the IDE, with the visual UI kept as the inspection surface.
ElevenLabs@ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs CLI v1: pull/push agents as code
ElevenLabs released an agents-first CLI covering the full API plus agents-as-code pull/push workflows with --schema and --dry-run.
Agents as versioned files with dry-run and schema checks. Aimed at fleets, not a one-off agent in the web UI.
Today we are releasing ElevenLabs CLI v1, which brings the entire ElevenLabs API into the terminal.
https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2091916523132616961