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Perplexity AI has launched a new voice assistant feature within its iOS app, significantly enhancing the utility and interactive experience of its AI assistant. According to AIbase, the new feature supports setting alarms, finding directions, sending messages, making restaurant reservations, and more. Combined with powerful real-time search and multi-app integration, it offers users a seamless smart living experience. The update is now live on the App Store and has received enthusiastic community feedback, marking Perplexity's strong advance into the comprehensive AI assistant market. Core features.

Competition in the AI voice generation field is heating up. Recently, two undergraduates from South Korea partnered to create Dia, an AI voice model claimed to rival Google's NotebookLM. Despite their limited experience in AI, the two founders successfully developed an open-source voice generation tool in just three months. Dia's training relied on Google's TPU Research Cloud program, which provides resources to researchers.

Bloomberg reported that AI company Anthropic is actively developing a new voice assistant feature for its chatbot, Claude, expected to be released this month. This new feature will allow Claude AI to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT in user interaction experience, enriching how users communicate with AI. Nearly a year after OpenAI launched a similar feature, Claude's voice mode is clearly a timely response to market demand.

MiniMax Audio, a leading innovator in audio technology, has officially released its new Speech-02 series voice model. Supporting over 30 languages and capable of processing 200,000 characters at once, it delivers a more natural, fluent, and convenient audio experience. The new Speech-02 series is the core highlight of this update. According to the official introduction, this series has significantly improved multilingual support, enabling more accurate and native-sounding pronunciations in various languages. Even more impressively, Speech-

OpenAI released an update to its advanced voice mode on Monday, enabling more natural, real-time conversations with ChatGPT. The updated voice assistant is designed to be more human-like in its interactions and minimizes interruptions. OpenAI's post-training researcher, Manuka Stratta, announced the update via a video on the company's official social media channels. This update aims to address a common issue with AI voice assistants: frequent interruptions while users are thinking or pausing.

On March 19th, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model called Orpheus TTS was officially launched. This model has quickly gained attention for its human-like emotional expression, natural and fluent voice quality, and ultra-low latency real-time output stream. Orpheus TTS reportedly excels in real-time conversational scenarios and promises to bring new breakthroughs to intelligent voice interaction. Orpheus TTS focuses on low latency and high emotional expression, with core features including: - **Ultra-Low Latency**: Default latency approximately 2

Voice assistants are increasingly integral to our lives, yet existing digital assistants often feel flat and lack emotional and human elements in their interactions. Sesame is tackling this problem, striving for a novel "voice presence" that allows digital assistants to be more authentic, understood, and valued in communication. Sesame's core goal is to create a digital companion, not just a tool for processing requests, but a partner capable of genuine conversation. These digital companions...

Lantu Auto announced that its self-developed AI voice dialogue system will be officially launched in the first half of 2025 and integrated into its upcoming new models. The system boasts an extremely fast response time of less than one second for all operations, ensuring a smoother user experience for voice-controlled vehicle functions. Furthermore, it features over 98% wake-up recognition accuracy, enabling precise command recognition. With continued technological advancements, Lantu Auto plans a large-scale OTA (Over-the-Air) update in the second half of 2025.

vivo recently announced a gray-scale update (version 5.2.1.22) to its "Blue Heart Little V" voice assistant, incorporating DeepSeek large model capabilities. This highly anticipated update enables "Little V" to offer more intelligent and in-depth thinking, assisting users in better information processing. User feedback indicates that with the deep thinking (R1) function enabled, "Blue Heart Little V" can conduct more comprehensive and thorough analysis based on user input commands.

According to Tianyancha App, there has been a change in the business registration of Shenzhen Shenglin Qijing Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. recently. Anhui iFLYTEK Yun Chuang Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of iFLYTEK, and Wuhan Changhu Technology Co., Ltd. have become new shareholders. This change was completed on February 21, 2023, and the company's registered capital increased from 2 million RMB to approximately 2.02 million RMB. Shenglin Qijing was established in July 2019, and the legal representative is Zhou Chao. The company's business scope includes electronic hardware, wiring, audio processing, software development, and artificial intelligence.

On Thursday, Spotify announced its partnership with ElevenLabs to officially introduce audiobooks narrated using the company's AI voice technology. As one of the most recognized AI audio providers, this new collaboration is expected to significantly increase the number of AI-narrated audiobooks on the platform. According to the new process, authors need to first download audio file packages from ElevenLabs, then access Spotify's audiobook distribution service, Findaway Voices.

Artificial intelligence voice company ElevenLabs has once again captured attention, having just completed a Series C funding round totaling $250 million, with a valuation between $3 billion and $3.3 billion. This round was led by ICONIQ Growth, demonstrating strong market confidence in AI voice technology. Just a year ago, ElevenLabs completed an $80 million Series B funding, when its valuation was only a third of what it is now, highlighting the company's rapid growth. ElevenLabs was founded by Mat

Against the backdrop of the rapidly growing artificial intelligence industry, AI voice technology company Sibichi recently announced the successful completion of a financing round totaling 500 million yuan. Participants in this financing include several well-known industrial funds, state-owned platforms, and private equity funds, marking a significant boost in Sibichi's support in the capital market. Founded in 2007, Sibichi is one of the early companies focusing on the AI field in China, initially centered around AI voice technology and has since expanded into integrated software and hardware solutions and AI hardware products. In the future, Sibichi will ...