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Nov 12Thu
  1. ElevenLabs Blog58

    ElevenLabs brings free voice restoration to veterans, songwriters, and more patients

    ElevenLabs announced at its New York Summit that people with permanent voice loss can now get free access to ElevenMusic, launching with Songwriters of North America (SONA) to verify eligibility and distribute access. The company also named Wounded Warrior Project as an Impact Program partner and NYU Langone Health as a new 1 Million Voices partner, through which eligible patients can access free personalized voice restoration via Rusk Rehabilitation. The 1 Million Voices program, a $1 billion in-kind commitment, has already helped more than 11,000 people with conditions including ALS, MND, and head and neck cancer speak again in a voice that sounds like their own.

  2. Hacker News AI58

    Swatters are using AI voices to deceive 911 dispatchers, and it's getting worse

    NPR reports that swatting hoax calls, such as an August bomb threat to Wheatland Union High School in Yuba County, Calif., are increasingly using AI-generated voices that sound natural and are hard for dispatchers to detect. APCO and NENA, which represent 911 dispatchers, cite a June survey of 766 public safety communications professionals in which about 14% of dispatchers said they were targeted using AI tools, and they are developing training to counter the threat. Officials stress dispatchers will always treat life-threatening calls as real and send emergency resources.

  3. ElevenLabs Blog60

    ElevenLabs and NVIDIA expand collaboration to bring voice agents to enterprises and governments globally

    ElevenLabs and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership across models, infrastructure and sovereign deployments, with NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL now available in ElevenAgents and ElevenLabs adding 15MW of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin compute. ElevenLabs models and NVIDIA infrastructure power a sovereign voice agent for Poland's national e-Health appointment system, and the companies are exploring on-device voice AI for robotics and physical AI.

    Why it matters: It shows how voice-agent stacks are being bundled with model and compute partnerships, and includes a concrete sovereign healthcare deployment with stated operational details.

  4. ElevenLabs Blog22

    How enterprise clients are putting ElevenLabs AI to work

    ElevenLabs says enterprises now account for more than 55% of its revenue, with employees at nearly 70% of Fortune 500 companies using its platform, which supports languages spoken natively by 5.5 billion people and 16,000 voices. The company detailed enterprise uses including Yahoo adding real-time voice to its Scout answer tool via ElevenAgents, Westgate Resorts deploying a voice agent named "Sarah" trained on 8,000 support transcripts, and KPN launching Mobiel AI for Dutch small businesses after fine-tuning raised identity-verification accuracy from roughly 50% to 90%. Other customers cited include Doppel for vishing simulations, Pocket for transcription, and Twilio integrating ElevenLabs voices into Conversation Relay.

  5. ElevenLabs Blog22

    McKinsey and ElevenLabs collaborate to take natural AI conversations to enterprise scale

    McKinsey and ElevenLabs announced an alliance combining McKinsey's industry and enterprise transformation expertise, underpinned by QuantumBlack's AI engineering, with ElevenLabs' conversational AI technology and ElevenAgents platform to help organizations prove value through initial use cases before scaling across the enterprise. Each deployment pairs multilingual conversational technology with agent design, systems integration and operating-model changes, and the companies cite KPN, the Dutch telecom company, as an early example using AI-powered solutions for customer interactions from order enquiries to technical appointment management. The alliance aims to extend beyond telecommunications to service-intensive industries such as insurance, supporting claims intake, policy servicing and everyday customer questions.

Nov 8Sun
  1. Hacker News AI20

    70% of Brits say please or thank you when speaking to AI, some even apologize

    A survey by fonio.ai found that 7 in 10 calls to AI assistants included a "please" or "thank you", 55% of callers thanked the AI at least once, and 52% greeted it with a hello. Around 12% apologized to their AI assistant, 13% said goodbye, 7% offered a fuller farewell, and 2% asked how the AI was doing. A separate February 2026 Future PLC survey of more than 1,000 people found about 70% are polite to AI, with 12% being polite in case of a robot uprising.

Nov 3Tue
  1. ElevenLabs Blog38

    Angle Health’s ElevenAgents pilot handles 90% of provider calls without a transfer

    Angle Health, an AI-native health benefits technology company, piloted ElevenAgents voice agents for provider-service workflows, answering calls in eight languages and working directly with its core administration system. During the pilot, the agents handled about 80% of total provider call volume, with more than 90% resolved end to end without transferring to a person, and the provider team gained back nearly 9,000 minutes a day. Angle Health plans to expand the pilot to its commercial, brokerage and account management segments.

  2. ElevenLabs Blog30

    How KPN is bringing voice AI to the Netherlands' entrepreneurs with Mobiel AI

    KPN partnered with ElevenLabs to build Mobiel AI, an add-on to KPN EEN MKB mobile subscriptions that offers voicemail transcription, call summaries and transcripts with follow-up actions, and call routing and reachability settings. KPN said ElevenLabs stood out for speech quality and conversational AI in Dutch, and the teams raised verification accuracy from roughly 50% to 90%. Mobiel AI runs on KPN's network and data centers, with voice data staying in the Netherlands and customer data not used to train AI models or shared with third parties.

Oct 31Sat
  1. The Verge · AI25

    Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

    Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said on an earnings call that the company will explore experiences that recognize participating customers as they arrive, present personalized digital menus, and make payment more effortless. Starting in 2027, Starbucks will also begin testing background AI models at the drive-thru to help baristas input orders more accurately and efficiently, and it plans to integrate AI into the app's search and discovery features. Niccol said it's still "early" and that the company will "test, learn, and scale what works."

Oct 30Fri
  1. ElevenLabs Blog38

    TELUS Digital cut early cancellations by more than half with ElevenAgents

    TELUS Digital built an outbound voice agent on ElevenAgents that calls new home internet customers within their first 90 days to explain their first bill, introduce self-serve tools, and prompt bundling discounts. Among customers who received a call, 30-day cancellations were less than half the rate of the broader new-customer cohort, with calls rated 8.5 out of 10 on average and C$55,000 in lifetime revenue retained per 1,000 customers reached. The agent was live in about six weeks from initial vendor engagement, and five additional use cases are now in active development.

  2. TechCrunch · AI40

    Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant

    Rivian is licensing elements of its AI voice assistant technology to Volkswagen Group as part of their $5.8 billion joint venture, according to Rivian's third-quarter investor presentation, though licensing fees and payment terms were not disclosed. The assistant, which rolled out to Rivian vehicles in September 2026, could debut in Volkswagen's low-cost ID EVERY1, slated to be the first VW vehicle to use Rivian's software and electrical architecture under the joint venture established in 2024. Rivian described the expansion as "a proof point for the extensibility of the platform we've built in-house."

Oct 29Thu
  1. TechCrunch · AI60

    Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure

    Deepgram announced it is acquiring Daily, the maker and maintainer of the open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, with the deal amount undisclosed and Pipecat to remain open-source. Daily, which has raised over $62 million from investors including Tiger Global and Nat Friedman, was in the same 2016 Y Combinator batch as Deepgram, which reached unicorn status with a $130 million Series C earlier this year. Deepgram is also launching the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol for voice agents co-developed with the Pipecat team.

Oct 28Wed
  1. ElevenLabs Blog32

    Voice AI for Karnataka

    At the first ElevenLabs Summit India in Bengaluru, ElevenLabs signed an MoU with the Government of Karnataka to bring voice AI into state public services, covering exploration of pilots for grievance redressals, public helplines and entitlement schemes in Kannada and 13 other official Indian languages. The agreement also includes deploying ElevenLabs' safety framework—covering deepfake detection, watermarking, consent, limits on voice cloning and fraud prevention—and supporting residents who have lost the ability to speak through free lifetime licences under the One Million Voices program.

  2. ElevenLabs Blog24

    Lettuce cuts creative ad production from over a week to under a minute with ElevenLabs

    Lettuce's growth team uses Ads Engine in ElevenCreative to pull its best-performing Meta ads, generate new versions in about 45 seconds, and push them back to market, with the creative director and a performance marketer reviewing each ad before it runs. The company reports roughly 75% lower creative costs and 40% to 60% lower cost per lead compared with other creative running in similar periods, and its current top-performing Meta ad came from the 15th to 20th iteration of an original asset.

  3. ElevenLabs Blog58

    ElevenLabs and adELA bring free voice restoration to Spain

    ElevenLabs announced a partnership with adELA, Spain's leading ALS association, to give people living with ALS across Spain free access to its voice restoration and preservation technology, the first Spanish initiative under the ElevenLabs Impact Program and the first country where the technology is available through a national patient association. Eligible people diagnosed with ALS can create a digital version of their voice by recording new samples if their speech hasn't yet changed significantly, or by uploading old recordings if it already has. The article profiles Aníbal Martín, an aviation engineer and programming teacher with ALS who used the technology to create a digital version of his voice, saying "Being able to hear my own voice means being able to remain myself."

  4. Hacker News AI38

    Tenstorrent and Smallest.ai Partner to Bring Production-Grade Voice AI On-Prem

    Tenstorrent and Smallest.ai have partnered to deliver an on-prem voice AI stack that runs Smallest.ai's Lightning V2 real-time text-to-speech model natively on Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole servers, aiming to reduce deployment costs while meeting real-time performance needs. Smallest.ai said working with Tenstorrent's NoC and larger SRAM unlocked 4x gains at a fraction of the cost of comparable GPU infrastructure, and the joint solution targets high-volume, data-sensitive use cases in financial services, telecom, healthcare, and enterprise. Lightning V2 is available on Tenstorrent hardware today with usage-based pricing and no upfront commitments.

Oct 23Fri
  1. TechCrunch · AI40

    Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you

    Nirva, founded in 2025 by former Meta Reality Labs employees Wei Lyu and Jason Chen along with Hanying Hu, announced a $25 million pre-Series A round on top of $8 million raised earlier this year from investors including Lightspeed and South Park Commons, bringing its total to $33 million. Its first device is an approximately eight-gram pendant, also wearable as a bracelet, with up to three days of battery life, that passively listens only to the wearer by filtering out other people's speech and by default keeps no audio or transcripts after processing. The $249 device, offered in silver, brushed silver, black, and gold, will begin taking orders in November with an aim to ship to early users by the end of the year.