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Smallest.ai raises $13 million for naturalistic voice AI
Startup Smallest.ai has raised $13 million in Series A funding to develop small, specialized voice AI models that can handle real-time conversations with minimal response time. The company is focused on making artificial voice interaction nearly indistinguishable from human conversation, with existing customers including RingCentral and Truecaller.
WHY IT MATTERS
Small specialized voice models can deliver natural conversations without noticeable latency, which is critical for customer service agents where even brief pauses sound unnatural. This represents a paradigm shift from making large language models faster to building small, domain-specific models.
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