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Alex Heath says Granola's new voice input eliminates the need for a separate dictation app
Granola has launched a dictation feature: users can simply press the Fn key on their Mac and speak, and the tool automatically cleans up and formats the speech and outputs the final text, which can be pasted and used in all apps; the feature is free with no word limit, and iOS and Windows versions are coming soon. Alex Heath said he often uses Granola to handle meetings, and now he no longer needs to install a separate dictation app, and said he has used it for voice input on his Mac for a whole day, with a smooth experience.
Granola has launched a dictation feature: users can simply press the Fn key on their Mac and speak, and the tool automatically cleans up and formats the speech and outputs the final text, which can be pasted and used in all apps; the feature is free with no word limit, and iOS and Windows versions are coming soon. Alex Heath said he often uses Granola to handle meetings, and now he no longer needs to install a separate dictation app, and said he has used it for voice input on his Mac for a whole
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Alex Heath says that with Granola's new voice input, there's no need to install a separate dictation app
Granola has launched a dictation feature: users can simply press the Fn key on their Mac and speak, and the tool automatically cleans up and formats the speech and outputs the final text, which can be pasted and used in all apps; the feature is free with no word limit, and iOS and Windows versions are coming soon. Alex Heath said he often uses Granola to handle meetings, and now he no longer needs to install a separate dictation app, and said he has used it for voice input on his Mac for a whole day, with a smooth experience.
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Aravind Srinivas announces new voice mode for Pro and Max users
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas announced that the new voice mode is available to all Pro and Max users, covering the web and the Mac app. This mode lets users talk to their computer by voice and advance multiple workflows in parallel. There are currently no subsequent developments or facts.
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Aravind Srinivas announces new voice mode for Pro and Max users
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas announced that the new voice mode is available to all Pro and Max users, covering the web and the Mac app. This mode lets users talk to their computer by voice and advance multiple workflows in parallel. There are currently no subsequent developments or facts.
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Aravind Srinivas says voice is the natural form of using a computer
Perplexity's Houssein Djirdeh announced that Perplexity's web version has launched a new voice mode, supporting natural conversation, full voice operation of the app, and multiple parallel sessions, based on GPT-Live-1. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas reposted the news and commented that voice is the natural form of using a computer. There is currently no further development.
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Aravind Srinivas proposes that voice is the natural form of using a computer
Perplexity's Houssein Djirdeh announced that Perplexity's web version has launched a new voice mode, supporting natural conversation, full voice operation of the app, and multiple parallel sessions, based on GPT-Live-1. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas reposted the news and commented that voice is the natural form of using a computer. There is currently no further development.
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Gnani AI releases speech recognition model Prisma v3.0
Gnani AI has released Prisma v3.0, an automatic speech recognition model that supports nine Indian languages, including Hindi and Bengali, as well as English, and can transcribe multilingual conversations with intra-sentence Hindi-English code-mixing. According to Analytics India Magazine, the model achieves a macro-average WER of 16.93 on the Vistaar benchmark, lower than ElevenLabs Scribe v2's 19.98, Microsoft Azure Speech-to-Text's 20.51, and Deepgram Nova 3's 26.57. It offers four transcription modes—Verbatim, Transcribe, Code-mix, and Transliterate—and supports up to 200 custom vocabulary terms per request, which can raise the recall rate for these terms from 70.9% to 90.3%. No further updates have been disclosed at this time.
Gnani AI has released Prisma v3.0, an automatic speech recognition model that supports nine Indian languages, including Hindi and Bengali, as well as English, and can transcribe multilingual conversations with intra-sentence Hindi-English code-mixing. According to Analytics India Magazine, the model achieves a macro-average WER of 16.93 on the Vistaar benchmark, lower than ElevenLabs Scribe v2's 19.98, Microsoft Azure Speech-to-Text's 20.51, and Deepgram Nova 3's 26.57. It offers four transcript
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Rivian discloses expansion of its joint venture with Volkswagen and licensing of AI voice assistant technology
In its Q3 2026 earnings report, Rivian disclosed that it has licensed its AI Voice Assistant technology to the Volkswagen Group through the Rivian and VW Group Technology joint venture, as part of the two companies' electrical architecture and software collaboration. TechCrunch AI reported that Rivian is licensing some elements of its AI voice assistant technology to the Volkswagen Group as part of their $5.8 billion joint venture; the assistant launched on the R1S and R1T in May 2026 and on the R2 in October, and may first appear in Volkswagen's low-cost ID EVERY1 electric vehicle. Rivian did not disclose the licensing fee or specific models, saying only that this demonstrates the scalability of its in-house platform. Unite.AI reported that Rivian's software and services revenue for the quarter was $605 million, up 45% year over year, of which $354 million (59%) came from the joint venture; Rivian Assistant launched on the R2 in October 2026 and gained Gmail integration through an OTA update.
In its Q3 2026 earnings report, Rivian disclosed that it has licensed its AI Voice Assistant technology to the Volkswagen Group through the Rivian and VW Group Technology joint venture, as part of the two companies' electrical architecture and software collaboration. TechCrunch AI reported that Rivian is licensing some elements of its AI voice assistant technology to the Volkswagen Group as part of their $5.8 billion joint venture; the assistant launched on the R1S and R1T in May 2026 and on the
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Neuralink publishes early feasibility study of VOICE speech restoration project
On October 28, Neuralink published a blog post disclosing the early feasibility study of its speech restoration project VOICE. The blog post revealed that an ALS participant reached an output speed of 75 words per minute in the first week of use, with a word error rate of 5.8% on a large vocabulary of 125,000 words. The study's principal investigator, Dr. Nader Pouratian, has presented the relevant data at the 2026 NEALS annual meeting. The study plans to enroll approximately 6 participants who have lost the ability to communicate due to ALS, spinal cord injury, or stroke, with the primary endpoint being device- or procedure-related adverse events within 12 months after implantation. Neuralink has not yet published a complete peer-reviewed paper; the above figures come from a single participant, and the company has not explained the types of test tasks, the separate performance of text versus speech output, or long-term effects.
On October 28, Neuralink published a blog post disclosing the early feasibility study of its speech restoration project VOICE. The blog post revealed that an ALS participant reached an output speed of 75 words per minute in the first week of use, with a word error rate of 5.8% on a large vocabulary of 125,000 words. The study's principal investigator, Dr. Nader Pouratian, has presented the relevant data at the 2026 NEALS annual meeting. The study plans to enroll approximately 6 participants who
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Neuralink discloses early feasibility study of VOICE speech restoration project
On October 28, Neuralink published a blog post disclosing the early feasibility study of its speech restoration project VOICE. The blog post revealed that an ALS participant reached an output speed of 75 words per minute in the first week of use, with a word error rate of 5.8% on a large vocabulary of 125,000 words. The study's principal investigator, Dr. Nader Pouratian, has presented the relevant data at the 2026 NEALS annual meeting. The study plans to enroll approximately 6 participants who have lost the ability to communicate due to ALS, spinal cord injury, or stroke, with the primary endpoint being device- or procedure-related adverse events within 12 months after implantation. Neuralink has not yet published a complete peer-reviewed paper; the above figures come from a single participant, and the company has not explained the types of test tasks, the separate performance of text versus speech output, or long-term effects.
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DingTalk A1 Doukou Doctor Edition combines voice recording with medical evidence-based capabilities
On October 30, 2026, DingTalk A1 Doukou Doctor Edition was released, combining A1's voice recording and AI meeting notes capabilities with Doukou's medical evidence-based capabilities. According to a China.com Technology report, after doctors finish organizing case discussions or lecture content, they can also query literature, guidelines, and expert consensus around unresolved medical questions. A gynecology department director at a tertiary hospital in Hangzhou reported that on surgery days she can first record special situations and judgments, then organize them after surgery, while for complex outpatient visits she uses Doukou Doctor to look up literature and guideline links. The report states that at this stage it is more like a portable professional assistant capable of recording, distilling, and searching literature than a reconstruction of hospital IT systems.
On October 30, 2026, DingTalk A1 Doukou Doctor Edition was released, combining A1's voice recording and AI meeting notes capabilities with Doukou's medical evidence-based capabilities. According to a China.com Technology report, after doctors finish organizing case discussions or lecture content, they can also query literature, guidelines, and expert consensus around unresolved medical questions. A gynecology department director at a tertiary hospital in Hangzhou reported that on surgery days sh
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DingTalk A1 Doukou Doctor Edition combines voice recording and medical evidence-based capabilities
On October 30, 2026, DingTalk A1 Doukou Doctor Edition was released, combining A1's voice recording and AI meeting notes capabilities with Doukou's medical evidence-based capabilities. According to a China.com Technology report, after doctors finish organizing case discussions or lecture content, they can also query literature, guidelines, and expert consensus around unresolved medical questions. A gynecology department director at a tertiary hospital in Hangzhou reported that on surgery days she can first record special situations and judgments, then organize them after surgery, while for complex outpatient visits she uses Doukou Doctor to look up literature and guideline links. The report states that at this stage it is more like a portable professional assistant capable of recording, distilling, and searching literature than a reconstruction of hospital IT systems.
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Cartesia launches the Managed Agents voice agent platform
Cartesia has launched Managed Agents, an end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprise call scenarios. According to information released by Cartesia's product and research teams, the platform ranks first among 30 agents on Artificial Analysis's Speech Agent Arena with a preference Elo of 1115; on ServiceNow's EVA-Bench it achieved an accuracy of 87.4% and an experience score of 90.7%, both the highest. The platform co-designs the voice model and harness, offering capabilities including 44 languages, tool calling, knowledge bases, and outbound calling batches, and the company says it has already supported tens of millions of conversations in finance, retail, hospitality, and healthcare scenarios. Rohan Paul's October 30 report likewise noted that the platform ranks first on Speech Agent Arena's blind human-preference testing and on EVA-Bench, and said its H-Nets achieve a 3–5x efficiency improvement in controlled scaling experiments.
Cartesia has launched Managed Agents, an end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprise call scenarios. According to information released by Cartesia's product and research teams, the platform ranks first among 30 agents on Artificial Analysis's Speech Agent Arena with a preference Elo of 1115; on ServiceNow's EVA-Bench it achieved an accuracy of 87.4% and an experience score of 90.7%, both the highest. The platform co-designs the voice model and harness, offering capabilities including 44 langu
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ElevenLabs partners with adELA to provide free voice restoration to ALS patients in Spain
ElevenLabs announced a partnership with the Spanish ALS association adELA to give ALS patients diagnosed in Spain free access to its voice restoration and preservation technology. This is the first project of the ElevenLabs Impact Program in Spain, and Spain is also the first country to offer this technology through a nationwide patient association. Patients whose voices have not yet changed noticeably can record new samples; those whose voices have already changed can upload old recordings to generate their own digital voice. It is estimated that there are about 4,000–4,500 ALS patients in Spain, many of whom will eventually lose the ability to speak.
ElevenLabs announced a partnership with the Spanish ALS association adELA to give ALS patients diagnosed in Spain free access to its voice restoration and preservation technology. This is the first project of the ElevenLabs Impact Program in Spain, and Spain is also the first country to offer this technology through a nationwide patient association. Patients whose voices have not yet changed noticeably can record new samples; those whose voices have already changed can upload old recordings to g
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NVIDIA releases open-weight speech transcription model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe
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ElevenLabs partners with adELA to provide free voice restoration to ALS patients in Spain
ElevenLabs announced a partnership with the Spanish ALS association adELA to give ALS patients diagnosed in Spain free access to its voice restoration and preservation technology. This is the first project of the ElevenLabs Impact Program in Spain, and Spain is also the first country to offer this technology through a nationwide patient association. Patients whose voices have not yet changed noticeably can record new samples; those whose voices have already changed can upload old recordings to generate their own digital voice. It is estimated that there are about 4,000–4,500 ALS patients in Spain, many of whom will eventually lose the ability to speak.
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AssemblyAI launches its first text-to-speech model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1
On October 29, 2026, AssemblyAI launched its first text-to-speech model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1, and made it generally available, targeting real-time telephony voice agents, priced at $15 per 1 million characters, with no annual contract and no concurrency tiers. According to a MarkTechPost report, the model is offered only as a hosted API in us-east-1 and eu-north-1, supports HTTP, WebSocket and OpenAI-compatible interfaces, and includes more than 4,000 voices, instant voice cloning and 6 languages; vendor self-testing shows 93.7% entity accuracy and a median time to first byte of 47 milliseconds, but Cekura's independent benchmark measured a streaming latency of 159 milliseconds and a reading accuracy of 81.5%, and at launch it did not yet support SSML, speaking-rate control or emotion tags. On the same day, Artificial Analysis' Provider Voice Arena evaluation showed AssemblyAI-TTS-1 ranked 12th with an Elo of 1227, ranked 16th with a pronunciation robustness score of 81.7%, and generated at 162 characters per second. Later that day, OpenRouter announced that AssemblyAI-TTS-1 was live, targeting voice agent scenarios, with service available from US or EU nodes.
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Gnani AI releases speech recognition model Prisma v3.0
Gnani AI has released Prisma v3.0, an automatic speech recognition model that supports nine Indian languages, including Hindi and Bengali, as well as English, and can transcribe multilingual conversations with intra-sentence Hindi-English code-mixing. According to Analytics India Magazine, the model achieves a macro-average WER of 16.93 on the Vistaar benchmark, lower than ElevenLabs Scribe v2's 19.98, Microsoft Azure Speech-to-Text's 20.51, and Deepgram Nova 3's 26.57. It offers four transcription modes—Verbatim, Transcribe, Code-mix, and Transliterate—and supports up to 200 custom vocabulary terms per request, which can raise the recall rate for these terms from 70.9% to 90.3%. No further updates have been disclosed at this time.
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Rivian discloses expansion of joint venture with Volkswagen and licensing of AI voice assistant technology
In its Q3 2026 earnings report, Rivian disclosed that it has licensed its AI Voice Assistant technology to the Volkswagen Group through the Rivian and VW Group Technology joint venture, as part of the two companies' electrical architecture and software collaboration. TechCrunch AI reported that Rivian is licensing some elements of its AI voice assistant technology to the Volkswagen Group as part of their $5.8 billion joint venture; the assistant launched on the R1S and R1T in May 2026 and on the R2 in October, and may first appear in Volkswagen's low-cost ID EVERY1 electric vehicle. Rivian did not disclose the licensing fee or specific models, saying only that this demonstrates the scalability of its in-house platform. Unite.AI reported that Rivian's software and services revenue for the quarter was $605 million, up 45% year over year, of which $354 million (59%) came from the joint venture; Rivian Assistant launched on the R2 in October 2026 and gained Gmail integration through an OTA update.
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