Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast, Human-Sounding Voice AI
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-07-31
AI voice startup Smallest.ai has raised $13 million. The company is developing ultra-low latency voice models designed to make AI phone calls sound so genuinely human that they can pass the Turing test.
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