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voice AI and speech infrastructure

Recent window: last 5.3 months (2026-04-28 → 2026-10-06), compared with the prior 5.3 months.

horizontal · 195 members · Data as of 2026-10-09

These products offer speech-to-text, text-to-speech, audio processing models, and developer tools for building conversational voice agents. They are used by developers, embedded systems engineers, and creators building real-time audio applications. This cluster is distinguished by its focus on the underlying acoustic pipelines, edge voice models, and speech routing rather than text-only LLMs.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
150
Prior count
35
Total count
195
Momentum
300.00
Attention
0.49
Crowding
0.73
Concentration
0.84
Opportunity
0.48

Opportunity components

Attention
0.49
Low crowding
0.27
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Low concentration
0.16

Source split

github
86 (0.57)
hn
32 (0.21)
ph
22 (0.15)
yc
10 (0.07)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.51

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Monthly trajectory

Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
TalkLikeYou-Streaming-RealTime-Demo GITHUB 521 2026-10-04
Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB HN 514 2025-12-29
I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones HN 469 2026-01-31
Cekura PH 431 2026-03-24
Cekura PH 367 2026-07-28
hermes-gadget-sdk GITHUB 313 2026-10-03
Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue HN 277 2026-02-16
Speko PH 266 2026-08-27
Parrot Speech-to-text API PH 194 2026-05-26
Hush PH 191 2026-06-23
Infera – Control Lab Instruments with Natural Language YC 153 2026-06-02
ema-lightning GITHUB 150 2026-10-05
ai-voice-breath-kiss-water GITHUB 136 2026-09-30
VoiceMod GITHUB 133 2026-10-01
persian_tts GITHUB 125 2026-09-16
Sparrow-1 HN 123 2026-01-14
sample-voice-ai-agent-studio GITHUB 113 2026-09-24
Sanctum: Ship features to simulated users before real ones YC 113 2025-11-11
VoiceChanger GITHUB 100 2026-10-01
Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game HN 93 2026-08-16
speakrail GITHUB 93 2026-10-04
Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR HN 90 2026-09-14
oido GITHUB 85 2026-09-30
binaural-voice GITHUB 85 2026-09-24
lyric-writing-skills GITHUB 83 2026-09-17
SpeakerMemR1 GITHUB 70 2026-09-20
Kalpa Labs: Scaling Generalist Speech Models YC 68 2025-11-11
doubao-say GITHUB 64 2026-09-14
Audio Toolkit for Agents HN 57 2026-03-01
Samora: Multilingual and Production Grade Voice Agents YC 56 2026-03-03
nemotron-asr-streaming-farsi GITHUB 56 2026-10-03
Multimodal perception system for real-time conversation HN 54 2026-02-10
HC-DLM GITHUB 53 2026-09-29
ekoAcademic – Convert ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts HN 53 2025-10-30
Realtime_Conversation_Video GITHUB 51 2026-09-27
Airy HN 46 2026-08-09
EchoMind GITHUB 44 2026-09-16
orukeet GITHUB 40 2026-09-09
ai-voice-breath-kiss-water-2 GITHUB 39 2026-10-05
ai-girlfriend-v2 GITHUB 36 2026-09-19
slotvox GITHUB 36 2026-09-26
Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining HN 35 2026-07-01
wilro-moe GITHUB 35 2026-10-04
OmniVChat GITHUB 34 2026-09-18
msteams GITHUB 33 2026-09-13
voix GITHUB 33 2026-09-11
voxweave GITHUB 32 2026-09-09
speechturn GITHUB 32 2026-09-09
nyra-forced-aligner GITHUB 32 2026-09-21
Self-hosted voice AI agent for Asterisk/FreePBX HN 32 2026-07-13