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Nov 10Tue
  1. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: VoxaDub – Open-source AI video dubbing with speaker-aware voices

    VoxaDub is an open-source, local-first tool that dubs video by transcribing dialogue, translating it with Hy-MT2, and synthesizing speech with speaker-aware VoxCPM2 references before reconstructing the original background. It offers offline dubbing plus an experimental Live Dubbing mode for authorized YouTube streams, with optional CUDA-only LatentSync lip-sync and local, Colab, or Modal compute. The v0.1.0 release notes that the 7B and 30B-A3B translation models are selectable but not runtime-verified, and that several platforms and the new Chrome live launcher remain unverified end-to-end.

  2. TechCrunch · AI42

    Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages

    Otter.ai announced a multilingual transcription feature that automatically detects language switches during a meeting and keeps transcribing without users changing settings, alongside support for 27 new languages. Thirteen of the new languages are available now, including Mandarin Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Polish, with 14 more coming soon; once complete, Otter will support 31 languages in total. The new languages run on Otter's own speech models, which the company said it trained on publicly available datasets with native-speaking volunteers reviewing transcripts for accuracy.

  3. Hacker News AI58

    We're launching an in-game AI agent for WoW

    Willo is a new in-game AI companion for World of Warcraft, described as a little wisp who knows where you are, what you're chasing and who you're talking to, and answers out loud in her own voice. She can answer questions about quests, lore, where to go next and graphics settings, lets targeted characters such as innkeepers or kings reply as themselves, and keeps notes, goals and reminders between sessions. She is free to start, runs on Windows 10 and 11 or a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later, macOS 12 or later), works on her own, and the optional Lore Forever add-on is free forever.

  4. Hacker News AI20

    FLEY AI-Voce – a voice AI assistant you but can also control your PC and phone

    FLEY AI-Voce is an open-source AI voice assistant project designed to control a computer rather than a smartphone, according to its description. The post says it can open links, websites and programs, create files and presentations, write code, shut down and turn on a PC, and work with a printer. It links to a web app, two GitHub repositories (FLEYAI-ANDROID and FLEYAI) and a Netlify site.

  5. ElevenLabs Blog12

    What is an API endpoint? A guide to connected software

    An API endpoint is the specific URL where an API receives requests and returns responses, with each route pairing an HTTP method with a resource path. The guide covers how endpoints process requests, REST methods like GET and POST, seven common API architectures, design best practices, testing and monitoring, and security through authentication, scoped permissions and concurrency-based rate limits, illustrated with ElevenAPI examples.

  7. Hacker News AI12

    Ask HN: Do you have daily voice conversations with AI?

    A Hacker News user describes trying a voice conversation with ChatGPT during a morning walk to work through details of a new family project, and says it surfaced angles they hadn't considered and left them more motivated. They ask how many others on HN have voice conversations with AI, whether they find them immersive, and whether they stick to technical topics or explore other things.

  8. Hacker News AI58

    Anarlog: Open-Source Granola AI Alternative

    Anarlog is an open-source, MIT-licensed alternative to Granola that captures meeting audio directly on your device without sending a bot into the call, transcribes locally on supported Macs, and stores sessions, notes, and transcripts in a local SQLite database. It supports bring-your-own AI via hosted providers, your own API key, or OpenAI-compatible local servers such as Ollama, LM Studio, or Unsloth, with optional encrypted CloudSync and sharing off by default. The repo also includes source-visible, commercially licensed enterprise components, and the project notes it began as Hyprnote and briefly used the char name before splitting into two projects.

Nov 9Mon
  1. ElevenLabs Blog60

    ElevenAgents Campaign Manager works every contact to an outcome

    ElevenLabs introduces ElevenAgents Campaign Manager, which takes a list of contacts and a target outcome and runs outbound campaigns, following up over time and carrying context between calls until the outcome is reached or the contact asks to stop. It offers campaign analytics with per-contact decision timelines, a needs-attention queue, CSV export, and controls including calling windows, attempt limits, do-not-call lists and disclosures, and it uses existing ElevenAgents agents and phone numbers over phone calls, WhatsApp voice and WhatsApp messaging, with email and SMS coming soon.

    Why it matters: Announces a new outbound campaign product from ElevenLabs with beta customer results, so it is relevant to teams evaluating AI calling tools.

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 7Sat
  1. Hacker News AI18

    AI Santa Video Generator – Personalized Santa Videos

    AI Santa Video Generator creates personalized Santa video messages that open with a child's first name and speak a parent-written message in any of 13 languages, with no photo required. Users pick from 9 scenes, can preview the name pronunciation for free, and pay with one-time credit packs starting at $9.99 (no subscription, credits never expire). Messages are reviewed before recording, and the site states every video is AI-generated and not a real message from Santa.

  3. ElevenLabs Blog30

    Voice AI infrastructure: The 2026 stack explained

    This guide describes the layers of a production voice AI stack—speech recognition, turn-taking, language models, orchestration, tools and MCP, knowledge and memory, speech synthesis, telephony, and guardrails, testing, and monitoring—and explains how ElevenAgents implements each, using Eleven v4 as the example voice layer. It covers two build modes (Custom and Realtime), Scribe v2 Realtime transcription at roughly 150 ms, a proprietary turn-taking model, workflow orchestration nodes, MCP tool approval modes, RAG latency reduced from 326 ms to 155 ms, and Eleven v4 Turbo figures of about 100 ms inference latency and about 150 ms time to first speech. It also details Guardrails 2.0, simulation and tool-call tests, A/B experiments, and observability metrics.

  4. ElevenLabs Blog22

    Share your ElevenMusic creations directly to SoundCloud

    ElevenMusic launched a SoundCloud integration that lets users connect their SoundCloud account under Linked Accounts in profile settings, then add a description, genre, and tags to an original track and click "Save to SoundCloud" to upload it to their profile. SoundCloud Artist Pro members can get three months of ElevenMusic free, then $9.99/mo unless canceled; the offer is 18+, ends 31 Oct 2027, and terms apply.

  5. Cursor Changelog62

    Voice Chat with Agents

    Cursor now supports realtime voice calls with agents in the Agents Window, the IDE, on web, and in Cursor for iOS, letting you describe changes out loud, ask what an agent is working on, and hear updates as work progresses. Voice chat runs on Grok Voice with selectable voices including Ara, Eve, Leo, Rex, and Sal, and uses zero data retention when Privacy Mode is on. It is separate from dictation, which still converts speech to text in the chat input and toggles with Cmd+Shift+Space in the IDE.

    Why it matters: Useful for Cursor users who want to know how the new voice call feature differs from dictation and where it is available.

  6. ElevenLabs Blog30

    Ads Engine adds human review from localization experts and creative specialists

    ElevenLabs Ads Engine now lets teams have ElevenLabs localization experts and creative specialists review ads made in the tool, including new variants and localizations for markets where no team member speaks the language. Ads Engine connects to ad platforms, pulls existing creative, translates text, adapts images and dubs video, with linguists from ElevenProductions and in-house creative specialists reviewing before ads are finalized. It uses Brand Kit to apply colors, fonts, logos, reference images and rules across variants, and can return finished creative for approval or push it directly to ad platforms.

Nov 6Fri
  1. Hacker News AI10

    Only today free language learning App with AI

    Habla is an all-in-one Spanish learning app offering AI speaking practice, swipeable flashcards, grammar and listening exercises, games, home and lock screen vocabulary widgets, and a two-way live voice translator. It is free and ad-supported, with an optional one-time "Remove Ads Forever" purchase at €14.99, requires iOS 15.1 or later, and is rated 4+ for ages.

  2. ElevenLabs Blog55

    Give your Unity NPCs a voice with ElevenAgents

    ElevenLabs released an ElevenAgents Unity SDK that connects a Unity scene to an ElevenLabs voice agent, listening through the player's microphone, playing the agent's voice through an AudioSource, and running the session via the Conversation API. The same code runs in the Editor, desktop builds, and WebGL, with iOS, Android, and XR in beta. The SDK supports dynamic variables, overrides, contextual updates, client tools, and main-thread events, and is installed via the git URL https://github.com/elevenlabs/unity.git#v0.1.0.

  3. TechCrunch · AI55

    Underdog shows off a 32MB speech model in new demo

    Underdog released a browser game called Woof built with its new 32MB speech generation model, which has 31 million parameters, is open for download, and the company says can run on most devices without an internet connection. The demo follows Underdog's earlier 167MB Bark speech-to-text model, and founder Sigil Wen told TechCrunch he wants to train open, American-made models that let people run capable AI locally and keep their data private. Underdog has also released a 27-billion-parameter model that can run on laptops and a waitlisted locally-hosted app.

  4. Hugging Face Blog22

    Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard

    The Open ASR Leaderboard added two private conversational splits from Liva AI covering Egyptian English (1.34 h) and Nigerian English (1.55 h), both punctuated, cased and containing disfluencies. The leaderboard now reports a richer accent breakdown based on Kachru's Three Circles, comparing US vs. non-US and Inner Circle vs. Outer and Expanding Circles. The post says the additions continue efforts to improve accent and language representation and trust through new private data and providers.

  5. Manus Blog25

    Best AI Tools for Game Development in 2026: Our Top 10 Picks

    This guide compares ten AI tools for game development, splitting them into four that build games (GDevelop, Unity's AI tools, Manus, Rosebud AI) and six that handle specific jobs like code, art, audio, and characters (Cursor, Scenario, Ludo.ai, Meshy, ElevenLabs, Convai). Each entry lists key features, developer feedback from Reddit and reviews, pros and cons, and monthly USD pricing as of November 4, 2026. The article concludes that most real projects mix tools and that larger games still need human direction and testing.

  6. ElevenLabs Blog15

    SRT file guide: Create, edit, and use subtitles in video

    This guide explains that an SRT file is a plain-text subtitle format storing numbered blocks, each pairing a start and end timestamp with on-screen caption text, and that it is widely supported across players and editing software. It covers the format's structure with an example, how to open SRT files on any device, converting transcripts to SRT via speech to text, editing to fix timing and readability errors, adding subtitles to video, and choosing between SRT and WebVTT. It also notes ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI options for generating and exporting subtitle files, including the Scribe v2 model's word-level timestamps across over 90 languages.

  7. TechCrunch · AI60

    Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar

    Meta announced that Muse Voice, which lets U.S. users call and video chat with its consumer AI agent Muse, is now available to everyone in the U.S. The feature, first shown at Meta's September Connect conference, uses new Muse Realtime Avatar and Muse Realtime Voice models to power a customizable animated avatar that responds with expressions and gestures matching the conversation's tone. Meta plans to bring real-time conversations to its AI Glasses and an upcoming "Muse Charm" device, following a Tamagotchi-like wearable it intends to launch before year-end.

  8. The Verge · AI58

    Muse has a voice mode now

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta's Muse AI agent now supports real-time voice conversations, with avatars that animate in sync with the agent's speech. Users can adjust the voice tone by asking the agent or through avatar settings. The voice mode and expressive avatars are rolling out now in the US for the app, with support coming "soon" for Meta's AI glasses and its forthcoming Muse Charm gadget.

  9. Hacker News AI50

    Show HN: GPT-Live and GPT-Realtime: Arch Trade-Offs Behind Continuous Voice AI

    A developer's LiveKit issue report found that 14 of 75 appointment-cancellation requests were not delegated to the backend within six seconds, and five were never delegated, even though the agent sometimes told callers the cancellation was underway. The post argues that GPT-Live's continuous voice frontend decides when to hand work to a reasoning backend, so delegation failures, overlapping-speech confirmations, and intent changes can leave backend intelligence and tools unused, while the closed model cannot be fine-tuned to fix them. It recommends measuring time to first substantive information and verified task completion rather than time-to-first-audio alone, and notes that preventive speech guardrails add latency and playback-state complexity.

Nov 5Thu
  1. Hacker News AI34

    Show HN: Telegram AI assistant with projects, images and background jobs

    A private, MIT-licensed TypeScript Telegram assistant offering text and voice conversations, photo analysis and editing, image generation, web search with sources, document questions, projects, named conversations, explicit saved memory, usage controls, streaming replies and durable background jobs. It requires Node.js 26.13+, npm 11, a Telegram bot token and an OpenAI project API key, with FFmpeg/libopus needed only for outgoing voice messages. State is stored locally in SQLite, and the README details commands, limits, data handling and a unit-test suite with a 100% coverage gate.

  2. Hugging Face Blog71

    A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.

    Gradium details Phonon, a small on-device text-to-speech model released two weeks ago that needs no server or network, with Phonon 31m (English) under Apache 2.0 and Phonon 40m covering English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese under a non-commercial license. The models, about 65 MB and 75 MB, offer over 100 built-in voices plus voice cloning and voice design, and on Hugging Face's Open TTS Leaderboard Phonon ranks first in German and Spanish on intelligibility and tops the CPU streaming benchmark on time-to-first audio. The post also covers the ptts inference framework, Transformers integration from v5.21, launch demos, and more than 200,000 downloads in the first two weeks.

    Why it matters: It offers a detailed look at how a small on-device TTS model was built, benchmarked and integrated into developer tooling.

  3. ElevenLabs Blog22

    Fix speech to text accuracy problems with a smarter workflow

    This guide explains that speech to text accuracy depends on audio input quality, speaker dynamics, and lexical and contextual issues, and that fixes should target the input, processing, or output stage of the pipeline. It recommends recording at 16 kHz or higher in lossless formats with microphones four to six inches from the speaker, using voice isolation, diarization or multichannel recording, and keyterm prompting, and measuring accuracy with word error rate. It also notes that ElevenAPI offers Scribe v2 with keyterm prompting, multichannel transcription, and speaker diarization.

  4. Hacker News AI65

    OpenRing – self-hosted voice AI agents with a Vapi-compatible API

    OpenRing is an MIT-licensed, self-hosted voice AI agent platform that runs on your own machine or server with your own provider keys and no platform fee, speaking the same JSON as Vapi so clients can migrate by changing the base URL. It runs each call as a Pipecat pipeline (speech-to-text, model, voice) and supports Vapi-style assistants, tools, webhooks, phone numbers, campaigns, knowledge bases, squads and SIP trunks, with a free local stack of Whisper, Ollama and Kokoro. It starts with `npx openring` on Node.js 18 or later, and calls, transcripts and keys stay on your server with no telemetry.

  5. ElevenLabs Blog22

    AI voice agent pricing: What it costs for your business

    AI voice agent pricing combines three line items: the platform that runs the agent, the LLM that powers each conversation, and the telephony provider that connects calls. Using ElevenAgents pricing as an example, every paid tier works out to $0.08 per platform minute, with LLM and telephony billed separately at cost, and plans ranging from a free tier with 15 minutes per month to custom Enterprise pricing. The guide also covers concurrency limits, ROI calculation against staffing costs, hidden costs, and ways to reduce spend.

  6. TechCrunch · AI58

    I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling

    Apple released Audio Intelligence features in the first developer betas of iOS 27.3 and watchOS 27.3, including sound detection, song identification, Live Rewind, and Siri Recaps, with audio processed on-device where possible and without storing raw audio or identifying speakers. In a day of testing, the author found Siri Recaps captured useful details like a repair deductible, time frame, and rental gas level, but also saved extraneous items such as TV plans and mixed unrelated topics into one note. The author suggests separate notes or sections for extraneous details, swipe-to-delete on individual bullet points, and an option to auto-export saved Recaps to Apple Notes.

  7. ElevenLabs Blog58

    ElevenAgents integrates natively with leading contact center platforms to deliver enterprise-ready agents

    ElevenAgents now integrates natively with NiCE CXone, Genesys Cloud, Amazon Connect, and Five9, and connects over SIP to any other contact center or PBX that supports SIP trunking. The voice stack, built from ElevenLabs' own audio research, offers more than 17,000 voices in over 90 languages, passes call context from the contact center to the agent, and hands calls back to human agents through existing routing with full context. The company says this lets enterprises automate routine calls without replacing their telephony, routing, compliance recording, or CRM systems.

Nov 4Wed
  1. Hacker News AI38

    Show HN: AI Gude - Personal Podcast News Aggregator

    AI Gude is free, self-hosted open source software that turns the RSS feeds you follow into a personal morning podcast: at scheduled times it reads new articles, writes a script in your style, speaks it with an AI voice and delivers one audio episode with chapters. It uses Gemini for text and speech, Firecrawl for article text, ffmpeg for encoding and SQLite for storage, and supports multiple users via a reverse proxy that sets the X-Aigude-User header. A live demo is available at aigude.alexdoes.dev with the user and password "demo".

  2. Hacker News AI20

    Audio Enhancer – Free Online AI Audio Enhancer and Noise Remover

    This page describes a free, no-login online audio enhancer that cleans noisy speech, quiet voice notes, podcast tracks, and iPhone videos by applying noise reduction, level balancing, EQ, and artifact cleanup. It offers two models (AudioCleaner V1 and V2), supports MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, AAC, and FLAC, and states there is no duration limit for spoken files. Users add a recording, select the main problem, preview the result, and export the cleaner file.

  3. MarkTechPost42

    Soniox STT v6 Adds Agent Text Input and Echo Filtering for Voice Agents

    Soniox released STT v6, a speech-to-text model available as stt-rt-v6 for streaming and stt-async-v6 for files across 60+ languages, which accepts the voice agent's own text to better recognize short caller replies and filter out leaked agent audio. Agent text input is enabled via an "enable_agent_text_input" flag on the real-time model only, with text streamed as JSON frames over the same WebSocket as caller audio. Soniox has published no v6 accuracy or latency numbers; v5 scored 1.34% semantic WER on the Pipecat benchmark, and v5 models are deprecated with removal on December 15, 2026.

  4. The Verge · AI58

    Apple’s latest watchOS beta includes its new always-on Audio Intelligence features

    The new watchOS 27.3 developer beta adds Audio Intelligence features that let Siri use the Apple Watch microphone: Siri Recap, which uses ambient listening to generate conversation summaries, and Live Rewind, which produces text transcripts of the last 15 seconds of audio the mic detected. Apple also released a redesigned Health app for testing in the iOS 27.3 developer beta and announced expanded language support in global English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Apple published an Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview stating that raw audio is handled within dedicated hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple.

  5. ElevenLabs Blog18

    What is call transcription? A practical business guide

    Call transcription converts phone or video calls into written text, typically via AI speech-to-text models, either after recording or in real time. Businesses use transcripts for searchable records, quality assurance and coaching, compliance documentation, and CRM logging. Legality depends on jurisdiction, with some regions requiring one-party consent and others all-party consent.

  6. Hacker News AI18

    Leona - AI Powered Career Toolkit

    Leona is an AI-powered career toolkit offering a CV builder with 19 ATS-friendly templates, cover letter drafting, portfolio publishing, job search tracking, PDF tools, and voice mock interviews with AI feedback. It has a free tier with no card required, plus Starter ($11/month) and Pro ($22/month) plans that raise limits on documents, storage, AI requests, and interview practice. The developer states that documents are private to the account and not sold, while AI, speech, and interview features send needed content to providers outside South Africa, including the US, EU, and China.

  7. Hacker News AI22

    I use AI (Oct 2026)

    A research engineer at Salesforce AI Research reflects on how his AI use changed over 12 months, now managing roughly 5–6 coding agents per workday and spending about $3,000/month on tokens. He finds agentic coding fast and useful but still dependent on human taste, reports that LLMs have become his first choice for literature searches while remaining unreliable for novel research, and criticizes AI writing as mediocre and AI image and video generation as a net negative.