voice agents
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Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming returns first results in ~100 ms across 60 languages
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a real-time transcription model covering 60 languages with first partial results in just over 100 milliseconds. It also launched two text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, aimed at voice agents.
Google Adds Real-Time Video Avatars to Gemini 3.8 Live for Enterprise Voice Agents
Google has added Live Avatar to its Gemini 3.8 Live dialogue models, pairing real-time video personas with voice AI for enterprise customer service and sales use cases. The feature is restricted to Gemini Enterprise customers via allowlisting and includes SynthID watermarking on all generated video.
AWS launches Nova Sonic voice agent framework with AgentCore Runtime and three integration patterns
AWS released Amazon Nova Sonic, a speech-to-speech foundation model for voice agents, alongside AgentCore Runtime, a serverless hosting environment with WebSocket streaming and microVM isolation. The framework supports three integration patterns: direct tool calls via AgentCore Gateway using Model Context Protocol (MCP), sub-agent delegation with Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, and session segmentation for multi-step workflows.