Our Voice AI is moving into a haunted house.🎃👻 Join us for a haunted house happy hour and wander among life-size animatronics wired-up with AssemblyAI-powered voice agents. Chat with them, collect candy along the way, and enjoy drinks, bites, and great company with fellow Voice AI builders. Costumes are encouraged. Screams are optional. Oct 29, 5–8 PM PT luma.com/assemb-42oc

Thursday, October 22nd at 11am PT: a live first listen of our upcoming Text-to-Speech model with Tom Shapland, Head of New Products. AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is our new Text-to-Speech model for voice agents. It’s built for conversation, with the natural pacing and self-corrections real callers expect. Register: assemblyai.zoom.us/webinar/r…

City councils decide on real estate development and rezoning in meetings almost nobody watches. Today @myhamletinc & @subes01 launched 10,000+ profiles, available for residents and journalists, powered by AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro and speaker diarization. Read the full story: assemblyai.com/customers/ham…

@covaldev's latest streaming Speech-to-Text benchmark: Universal-3.6 Pro has the lowest WER of any model tested. Median time to final transcript dropped about a third this week: 3.6 Pro: 153 → 106 ms 3.5 Pro: 156 → 108 ms Thanks to the Coval team for running these benchmarks in public every week.

Gemini 4 Argon is live on LLM Gateway. On Voice Standard Bench it posted the top dictation score of 50+ models (99.5) and returned faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash at every transcript length. Model string: gemini-4-argon Full results: assemblyai.com/blog/gemini-4…

Universal-3.6 Pro is now live on Bolna (YC F25). Entity-aware endpointing so callers finish their account number before the agent jumps in. 32 languages, including Hindi, Urdu and Marathi. Free for all Bolna users 9 to 16 October.

Who knew a nostalgic childhood toy could become a voice agent? 🧸🎤 For SF Tech Week, we brought the voice Al community together to give a Furby a voice upgrade using AssemblyAl's Voice Agent API. From swear jar Furbies to karaoke sing-along Furbies, we loved seeing all the creative (and hilarious) ideas come to life! Huge thanks to everyone who joined us, built something fun, and took home their very own Furby pal

🍦 Next stop, 510 Mission St.—come find us for free ice cream, SF! Get your free ticket and show it at the truck: lnkd.in/ghEwcZA6 👇👇👇 📍 Salesforce Tower · 1:30–3:00 PM 📍 Mission Bay/Dogpatch · 4:00–5:30 PM #SFTechWeek #SanFrancisco #VoiceAI

Heatwave in SF and our customers are on the menu 🍦 This SF Tech Week we wanted to thank the teams building on AssemblyAI—so we named an ice cream flavor after six of them! Today we're driving around SF giving the ice cream away for free. 🍦 Granilla (Vanilla), for @meetgranola 🍪 Cookies & Commure (Cookies & Cream), for @CommureOS 🥜 Retell in a Nutshell (Butter Pecan), for @retellai 🫐 Triple-Berry Triplex (Mixed Berry Sorbet), for @ai_elise 🎃 Trick or Tolan (Pumpkin), for @tolanworld 🍫 Area Cocoa (Chocolate), for @telnyx Come find us and snag some free ice cream! 📍 Jackson Square · 11:00 AM–12:30 PM 📍 Salesforce Tower · 1:30–3:00 PM 📍 Mission Bay/Dogpatch · 4:00–5:30 PM Get your free ticket and show it at the truck: lnkd.in/ghEwcZA6 #SFTechWeek #SanFrancisco #VoiceAI