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Automation with AI voice agents handling inbound and outbound calls

2•Olivia8•2h ago
In 2025, automation with AI voice agents has reached a new level of realism, reshaping how businesses manage inbound and outbound calls. Modern systems no longer rely on pre-recorded scripts — they use neural speech synthesis and large language models trained on billions of voice samples to produce natural intonation, rhythm, and emotional nuance. Technologies such as prosody modeling, dynamic pause control, and context-aware inflection allow AI voices to adapt tone and pacing in real time based on the user’s mood or conversation flow. Leaders like Coldi AI, PolyAI, Replicant, and Observe.AI are pioneering emotionally intelligent voice agents capable of detecting sentiment through acoustic patterns and tailoring responses accordingly. These systems leverage end-to-end transformer architectures for voice generation and speech-to-intent pipelines for natural, human-like conversation. The result: AI agents that can handle complex dialogues, schedule appointments, qualify leads, and close deals — all while sounding convincingly human, empathetic, and contextually aware. And which Voice AI do you use in the customer service?

CEO Says His Firm May Be the Cause of United Airlines Mid-Flight Emergency

https://twitter.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292
1•c420•1m ago•0 comments

It wasn't space debris that struck a United Airlines plane–was a weather balloon

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/the-mystery-object-that-struck-a-plane-in-flight-it-was-pro...
1•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

Technical Position Paper on Confidential Computing

https://cyber.gouv.fr/en/publications/technical-position-paper-confidential-computing
1•kerneis•4m ago•0 comments

Building a Honeypot Field That Works

https://css-tricks.com/building-a-honeypot-field-that-works/
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/oct/21/why-the-manosphere-clicked-for-...
1•ljf•7m ago•0 comments

Jellyfin 10.11.0

https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/
2•fparat•8m ago•1 comments

The Engineering of Niagara Falls [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdvEtmo1pM
2•crescit_eundo•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ghswap – CLI tool for managing multiple GitHub accounts

https://github.com/shubhamV123/ghswap
1•shubham213•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: W++ – Garbage-Collected Threads

1•sinisterMage•11m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of Prop Trading in 2025: Technology, Access, and Opportunity

https://propfirmplus.com/
1•malavika_manoj•12m ago•1 comments

Why can't I buy a small smartphone?

https://www.ft.com/content/63320013-9831-4940-b79d-a26d76ecb4bd
2•sandbach•12m ago•1 comments

Apple employees have 'concerns' over Siri performance in early iOS 26.4 builds

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/19/apple-employees-concerned-by-early-ios-26-4-apple-intelligence-sir...
2•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

Termite farmers fine-tune their weed control

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/termite-farmers-fine-tune-their-weed-control/
1•PaulHoule•14m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk threatens to leave Tesla if he doesn't get his ridiculous pay

https://electrek.co/2025/10/20/elon-musk-threatens-leave-tesla-tsla-if-he-doesnt-ridiculous-pay/
1•bdcravens•15m ago•1 comments

Building Real-Time Apps with Cloudflare Workers and RedwoodSDK

https://simpletechguides.com/comparisons/cloudflare-workers-vs-redwoodsdk-real-time-apps/
1•ritzaco•17m ago•0 comments

Soniox released STT model v3 - A new standard for understanding speech

https://soniox.com/blog/2025-10-21-soniox-v3
1•raluk•17m ago•0 comments

How Hard Is It to Dim the Sun?

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/10/21/how-hard-is-it-to-dim-the-sun/
2•geox•17m ago•0 comments

I built JobHive – a $10/month tool to organize your chaotic job search

https://jobhiveapp.com/
1•CrtlKenny•17m ago•2 comments

Show HN: RailGPT, train travel assistant

https://www.railgpt.app
2•joeharwood3•18m ago•0 comments

The Beautiful Prison: Why We Choose the AI Bubble

https://medium.com/ducky-ai/the-beautiful-prison-why-we-choose-the-ai-bubble-c1d4eb88fdd2
3•JunNotJune•20m ago•0 comments

Why did NASA's chief just shake up the agency's plans to land on the Moon?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/nasas-acting-leader-seeks-to-keep-his-job-with-new-lunar-la...
2•rbanffy•20m ago•0 comments

Qiskit C API enables new end-to-end quantum and HPC workflows

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/c-api-enables-end-to-end-hpc-demo
1•rbanffy•21m ago•0 comments

Ethereum Foundation Faces Internal Revolt

https://unchainedcrypto.beehiiv.com/p/ethereum-foundation-faces-internal-revolt
3•wslh•24m ago•0 comments

Samuel Slater: Father of the American Industrial Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater
1•thelastgallon•25m ago•0 comments

Hormone therapy alters body proteins to match gender identity

https://www.mcri.edu.au/news/news-stories/hormone-therapy-alters-body-proteins-to-match-gender-id...
3•locopati•29m ago•0 comments

I don't know what to say to college freshmen

https://natashajaffe.substack.com/p/i-dont-know-what-to-say-to-college-eb6
1•natasha_jaffe•29m ago•1 comments

AI Acceleration Predictions: Insights from the Polyglot Conference

https://compositecode.blog/2025/10/12/the-second-ofrder-effects-of-ai-acceleration-22-predictions...
1•speckx•30m ago•0 comments

Patches Posted to Allow Hibernation Cancellation on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Hibernation-Cancellation
2•mfilion•31m ago•0 comments

Glyph: Scaling Context Windows via Visual-Text Compression

https://twitter.com/shawliu12/status/1980486952467198420
1•Osiris30•32m ago•0 comments

Blogging Keeps It Real

https://robertbirming.com/blogging-real/
2•speckx•37m ago•0 comments