January 23, 2026

Everything in voice AI just changed: how enterprise AI builders can benefit

four people all on laptops, two men and two women, listen to person talking in a board meeting
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Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads the text back. Functional, but not really...