speech technology

Conversational AI and Voice Assistants – Key Developments (June–July 2025)

Amazon’s Alexa+ entered broad early access by mid-2025 and surpassed 1 million users by June 2025. Alexa+ is free for Amazon Prime members and costs $19.99/month for others, and it orchestrates “experts” across services like OpenTable, Spotify, and Uber Eats. Alexa+ can remember personal details and even has its own email for user-provided information, enabling more complex multi-step requests than the old Alexa. In Early Access, about 90% of Alexa+ features are live, with hands-free shopping and advanced video controls still under development. Apple’s Siri saw no major generative AI launch in June 2025, with delays to a likely iOS

11 July 2025

Top 10 AI Voice and Speech Technologies Dominating 2025 (TTS, STT, Voice Cloning)

Google Cloud Speech AI provides Text-to-Speech with 380+ voices across 50+ languages using WaveNet/Neural2, Speech-to-Text in 125+ languages, and Custom Voice generally available in 2024. Azure Speech Service offers Neural Text-to-Speech with 446 voices in 144 languages (as of mid-2024), Speech-to-Text in 75+ languages, and Custom Neural Voice with cloud or on-prem deployment. Amazon Polly delivers 100+ voices in 40+ languages, includes Neural Generative TTS with 13 ultra-expressive voices by late 2024, and Amazon Transcribe supports 100+ languages. IBM Watson Speech Services provide Text-to-Speech in 13+ languages and Speech-to-Text in 8–10 languages, with 2024 Large Speech Models and on-prem deployment

19 June 2025

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