Sony, NEC, and Others Establish Voice AR Alliance in Japan
Sony Marketing, Shobunsha Holdings, and NEC jointly announced on July 8, 2026, the establishment of ...
Spain Allocates €292,500 to Boost AI Development for European Languages
The Spanish government has approved a grant of €292,500 to support ALT-EDIC (the European Digital In...
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-ASR Full-Chain Voice Model Auditory Base Launched
On July 7, Xiaomi, a Chinese smart terminal and AI technology company, launched the MiMo-V2.5-ASR fu...
China's Alibaba Qwen Upgrades Fun-ASR-Realtime Speech Recognition Model, Single Model Supports 30 Languages + 16 Dialects
On July 6, China's Alibaba Qwen announced the upgrade of its real-time speech recognition large mode...
China's AutoNavi AI Premium Ride Service Upgraded: Users Can Now Book a Ride Directly via Voice Commands
On July 6, China's AutoNavi (Gaode) Maps announced an upgrade to its AI premium ride service, allowi...
Portugal's Priberam Develops First Transcription Application Based on the AMÁLIA Model
Portuguese tech company Priberam developed a transcription application based on the AMÁLIA model wit...
Syntiant and Vibe Collaborate to Develop Voice-Driven AI Products
Syntiant Corp. and Vibe have announced a partnership to jointly develop next-generation voice-driven...
China's Ideal AI Glasses Livis OTA Update Adds 6 New Features
Li Auto today announced the June OTA update for its Ideal AI Glasses Livis, adding 6 new features an...
Brightplace Launches AI Rental Search Platform in the US
Brightplace recently launched Brightplace Connect, an infrastructure that makes its Rental Advisor d...
Malawi Launches Chichewa AI Model Development Project
Malawi has launched a project called the "Malawi Low Resource Language Data Trust Initiative" to dev...
Coval, an AI evaluation platform in the U.S., completes $28 million Series A funding
Artificial intelligence evaluation platform Coval has completed a $28 million Series A funding round...
OpenAI and Broadcom Release LLM Inference Chip Jalapeño
On June 24, OpenAI and Broadcom jointly released their first intelligent processor, Jalapeño. This c...
China's Qwen Releases Qwen-AgentWorld Language World Model
On June 24, China's Qwen officially released the native language world model Qwen-AgentWorld, along ...
Iceland's Treble Develops Physics-Based AI Acoustics Program
Icelandic startup Treble has developed a physics-based acoustics program designed to replace the cur...
SAP and Team Liquid Launch AI-Powered Voice Intelligence Application
SAP announced on the 23rd the official launch of an AI-based voice intelligence application develope...
Xilica Canada Launches Dynamic Voice Lift Feature Integrated in Designer v4.12
Xilica has launched a Dynamic Voice Lift feature to enhance voice adaptability in meeting spaces. In...
France's Bouygues Telecom Launches Local AI Subtitle Translation Supporting Five Languages
French telecom operator Bouygues Telecom has integrated an automatic subtitle translation service in...
German DeepL Acquires US-Based Mixhalo to Enhance Real-Time Event Translation Capabilities
Real-time audio company Mixhalo has been acquired by German machine translation firm DeepL to streng...
KT and Korea University Develop Korean AI Safety Benchmark
KT announced on the 16th that it has jointly developed a multimodal large language model safety benc...
AI Translation Solution "XL8 EventCAT" to Serve Korea's Nextrise for Fourth Consecutive Year
Artificial Intelligence simultaneous interpretation company XL8 (CEO Jung Young-hoon) announced that...
Nkenne Founder from the U.S. Receives $30,000 Zoom Grant to Develop AI Platform for African Languages
Michael Odokara-Okigbo, founder of Nkenne, an African language learning and AI translation platform,...
GitHub Releases Multilingual Repository Dataset Covering Over 40 Million Repositories
GitHub has released the GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset, a repository-level metadata datase...
University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor Calls for Integration of African Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in AI Development
In a speech, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, called for ...
Chinese InnAIO Launches AI Voice Recorder in France
InnAIO has launched two products: the TransNote AI voice recorder and the Vinabot smart photo frame....
French OVH Group to Acquire Voice AI Company Gladia
OVH Groupe has announced the initiation of exclusive negotiations to acquire Gladia, a voice-to-text...
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Real-Time Speech Translation Model
On June 9, Google announced the launch of the Gemini 3.5 Live Translate real-time speech translation...
Microsoft Launches Windows On-Device Speech Recognition API and Aion Small Language Models
From June 2 to 3, Microsoft released updates to Windows AI APIs at Build 2026, adding an on-device s...
Google Launches Fake Call Detection for Android to Identify AI Voice Cloning Scams
Google has launched a fake call detection feature for Android to combat impersonation scams. When bo...
US-based AethexAI Raises $3 Million to Target Voice AI in Africa and the Middle East
AethexAI, a startup focused on building voice AI products for the African and Middle Eastern markets...
China's JD.com Open-Sources JoyAI-Echo Long Audio-Video Generation Framework
On June 3, JD.com launched the JoyAI-Echo long audio-video generation framework, with its code and w...