Deepgram picks up Pipecat steward Daily as voice AI consolidates
Deepgram is buying Daily, the company behind the open source voice agent…
Otter takes repayable $320M instead of a dilutive round
Otter.ai has accepted $320M from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, capital it…
Otter takes $320M from General Catalyst to sell voice data to enterprises
Otter.ai has closed $320M in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value…
Inworld acquires Ultravox, the Seattle speech startup once called Fixie
The Seattle voice AI startup, once known as Fixie, joins Inworld as…
Staff tender lifts voice AI unicorn ElevenLabs to $22B
A staff share sale led by Wellington and T Rowe Price has…
Deepslate lands €77M for speech models that never leave the EU
Deepslate's end-to-end speech models cut the text round trip and keep European…
Modulate lands $25M to decode intent inside voice calls
The Boston startup sells emotion, deepfake and scam detection to companies running…
ElevenLabs v4 clones a voice from ten seconds of audio
The speech startup's new models add expression control and 90 languages as…
Iceland’s Treble banks $18M to simulate how AI hears the world
Reykjavik-based Treble raised $18M for its acoustic simulation platform, which generates training…
Nuance collects $50M to train one model for real conversation
Seattle startup Nuance, founded by three former Apple researchers, has raised a…
