Sonos launches AI-powered audio OS 'Sonos 27' alongside new flagship Beam Ultra and Ace Ultra speakers, letting users control their home audio through any AI assistant — including ChatGPT or Claude — while also previewing Custom Agents, a feature enabling up to 10 personalized AI personas per speaker.
A flood of pricey AI gadgets like the $159 Flowtica Scribe pen and $249 Plaud One earbuds are hitting shelves, but their core features — recording, transcription, and summarization — are already available on your smartphone, raising serious questions about whether consumers are paying a premium for little more than …
Google expands Gemini Notebook with 'Expert Intelligence,' enabling users to load Google Play ebooks to generate flashcards, slide decks, and audio overviews, though the feature currently excludes Kindle and Apple Books purchases, leaving many users frustrated.
Anthropic launches a groundbreaking hardware protocol connecting AI to physical machines in hours, UK surgeons complete the first live AI-assisted brain surgery restoring a patient's vision, and voice-controlled AI agents hit the mainstream as Apple's iOS 27 ships an AI dictation keyboard enabling users to command multiple agents simultaneously at …
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its most advanced speech-to-text model yet, delivering a 70% faster transcription speed, a Word Error Rate as low as 2.6%, and support for 85+ languages — now available in public preview for developers and enterprises.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its fastest and most accurate speech-to-text model yet, boasting 70% faster transcription speeds, support for 85+ languages, and smart filler-word filtering — now powering Android's Rambler feature and available to developers via Google AI Studio, threatening to disrupt market leader Wispr Flow.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a powerful new AI speech-to-text model that is 70% faster than its predecessor, supports 85 languages, reduces live-speech error rates, and is already live in Gboard, the Gemini macOS app, and developer tools.
JD.com launches JoyAI-Echo, an open-source AI platform featuring two groundbreaking tools: Echo-LongVideo, capable of generating up to 5-minute multi-shot audio-visual content, and Echo-WM, an omnimodal world model that simultaneously evolves video, sound, music, and speech in response to real-time navigation inputs.
Anthropic is secretly building an AI-powered meeting recorder called 'Parka' inside Claude Desktop that captures audio, generates speaker-attributed transcripts, and automatically routes action items to AI agents for execution — signaling a bold push into a competitive space already occupied by tools like Otter and Notion.
A free, open-source platform called VoiceStudio is challenging ElevenLabs by offering voice cloning, video dubbing, and transcription across 646 languages with no account or subscription required, running entirely on-device across Mac, Windows, and Linux.