Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model trained on human conversations that can listen, interrupt and respond to emotions in real time.
Blue Machines AI launches FLOE, an evaluation framework designed to assess how voice AI systems detect and handle language switching in multilingual conversations.
Smallest.ai raises $13 million in a Series A led by Seligman Ventures to scale its low-latency speech-to-speech AI platform for enterprise voice interactions.