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AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-10 | by Marina Temkin | get Shure MV7 USB microphone → | tags: listen labs, salesforce, menlo ventures

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Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-31 | by Marina Temkin | tags: harvard law, blue voice, ai policing

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India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-26 | by Ivan Mehta | get Jabra Evolve2 65 wireless headset → | tags: ringg, peak xv, voice ai

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AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-25 | get YubiKey 5C NFC security key → | tags: phishing-as-a-service, anonymouskit, apple activation lock

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Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: speko, openrouter, voice ai

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AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next (wired.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kate Taylor | tags: voice ai, dairy queen, intouch insight

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Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Marina Temkin | tags: smallest.ai, voice ai, human conversation

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Uber lays off 10 percent of its customer service team in favor of using AI (engadget.com)

2026-07-23 | by Mariella Moon | tags: uber, community operations, voice ai

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Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-25 | get AI Developer Kit → | tags: besimple ai, meta, audio models

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DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-17 | by Ivan Mehta | get DeepL Translator App → | tags: deepl, mixhalo, live-events

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Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-21 | by Ivan Mehta | get ElevenLabs Voice Generator → | tags: spotify, elevenlabs, google play books

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Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | by Edd Gent | get Voice AI Security Kit → | tags: voice ai, large audio-language models, ieee symposium

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Voice AI in India is hard — Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-10 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: wispr flow, voice ai, hinglish

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Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway. (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-10 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: wispr flow, voice ai, hinglish

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OpenAI's WebRTC problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get WebRTC Development Kit → | tags: webrtc, openai, twitch

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‘There Were a Lot of Naysayers’: Half of T-Mobile’s Customer Calls Are Now AI — And That’s Just the Beginning (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-05 | by Sherin Shibu | get AI Customer Service Headset → | tags: t-mobile, voice ai, customer service

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How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | get OpenAI Voice SDK → | tags: openai, voice ai, low-latency

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Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get Voice AI Development Kit → | tags: voice ai, webrtc, livekit

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Why hiring the weirdos works (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-26 | by Maggie Nye | get Diversity and Inclusion Book → | tags: voice ai, bland, isaiah granet

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Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-03 | get Chatbot → | tags: cekura, yc f24, voice ai

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How to avoid bad hires in early-stage startups (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-26 | by Maggie Nye | get Recruitify → | tags: mappa, behavioral intelligence, voice ai

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Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-26 | get GitHub Activity Monitor → | tags: github spam emails, yc companies, buildrunanywhere

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Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-13 | by Ivan Mehta | get Deepgram → | tags: million, voice, voice ai