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Voice AI Space Explorer

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Watch the full episode + read the transcript: https://t.co/B5owaAZ7Ze

On YouTube: https://t.co/0LS2dWZZ7v

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BotCast #011 is out: Tom Waszkowycz, co-founder & CTO at Inkling, an AI tutor that talks with students voice-to-voice.

"After you ask a question, you need to give them five, ten seconds to engage their brain."

Full episode + transcript in the reply 👇

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All events and sign-up links: https://t.co/CGvszPDx3B

Our London dinner on Thursday: https://t.co/PswByQ6i6c

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Next week in voice AI: 12 events, October 6 to 8.

9 in San Francisco during SF Tech Week, with Deepgram, Twilio, Agora, Cartesia, AssemblyAI, LiveKit, Vapi and Coval.
2 in London, including our Voice AI Dinner on Thursday.
1 in New York, hosted by EliseAI.

Full calendar in the first comment.

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@razaaitech @elise_ai @cartesia @rimelabs @DecagonAI @DeepgramAI @aircall @Speechmatics @thinkymachines I fully agree

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10 new voice AI jobs went up on the board in the last two days.

@elise_ai , @cartesia , @rimelabs , @DecagonAI , @DeepgramAI , @aircall , Heidi Health, @Speechmatics ,Tandem Health, @thinkymachines

Only 3 of the 10 are engineering. The rest is finance, support, demand gen, project management.

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https://t.co/jYesnT87Lc

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https://t.co/vIkgeaIZEX

[Cactus Compute @cactuscompute]

We release Whistle: speech to text in a 16.9MB file, running on the CPU in the same engine as Needle. It mostly beats Whisper base with 9x less file size and 6x speed. Whistle supports English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish.

https://t.co/lKCluhDDDm

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, taking the #1 spot for Final Transcript accuracy and First Partial Transcript accuracy on AA-WER Streaming with 2.5% WER at 0.13s after end of speech

MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming is @MicrosoftAI's new streaming Speech to Text model, joining the non-streaming MAI-Transcribe-2. It leads streaming Final Transcript WER at 2.5%, ahead of the previous #1, SpaceXAI's Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 at 2.7%, and returns that transcript in 0.13s rather than 0.49s. It is available for streaming transcription at $0.54 per hour of audio, at the higher end of pricing among the leading streaming models.

Key takeaways

➤ Final Transcript: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming achieves 2.5% WER at 0.13s after end of speech, ranking #1 of 38 models. It is more accurate and faster than Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 at 2.7% and 0.49s, Muse Voice Transcribe at 3.1% and 0.16s, and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime at 3.6% and 0.14s. It is also more accurate, though slightly slower, than Cartesia Ink Preview (external endpoints) at 3.1% and 0.11s

➤ First Partial Transcript: The model achieves 2.5% WER at 0.12s, ahead of Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 at 3.4% and 0.49s, and ahead of Muse Voice Transcribe and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime on accuracy, both at 3.6%, and slightly faster than both at 0.12s versus 0.13s. It is more accurate but slower than Cartesia Ink-2 (external endpoints) at 4.0% and 0.07s

➤ Price: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming costs $0.54 per hour for streaming, or $9.00 per 1,000 minutes. This puts it level with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live at $9, above the $6.50 charged for ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime and Deepgram Flux, more than twice Cartesia Ink-2 at $4, and three times Muse Voice Transcribe at $3. Non-streaming transcription costs $0.10 per hour, or $1.67 per 1,000 minutes

Congrats to the @MicrosoftAI team on the launch!

See more details below

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https://t.co/Ai3M16jyxl

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Thinking... Pondering... Gurutating ...

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@altryne @sama @thsottiaux that's a really good question !!!

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OOO

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The level of creativity is mind blowing
Can't wait for someone to launch Grots

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https://t.co/PswByQ6i6c

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SF is on 🔥 but life keep going in Europe
If you want to join a bunch of founders shipping Voice AI Product check the link in the comments

#VoiceAI

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Going to SF Tech Week?
5 voice AI events on our calendar:

Tue 6 Oct
· @Vonage + @DeepgramAI demos & lunch
· @AgoraIO : Prototype to Production

Wed 7 Oct
· Coffee @cartesia
· @aquavoice , @Speechmatics & @livekit
· Voice AI Product Leadership Panel @rimelabs & @AudioShakeAI

All here: https://t.co/XK1k59krjT

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https://t.co/yICBQ8TTAp

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The BotCast episode 10 is out 🤘 with Ben Ren from @ScamAI_Official (link in the comment)