Murf AI vs Speechify

Bharat Buddy: 10-Day Voice AI Tutor Build

A developer built "Bharat Buddy," a multilingual voice-first AI tutor during the "10 Days of Voice Agents — VoiceForBharat Edition." The project integrates real-time audio via LiveKit, LLM reasoning, and Murf Falcon TTS to support Hindi, English and Hinglish. Features include user memory, tool calling, AI-initiated outbound calls, human escalation, specialist agent handoffs (e.g., a Maths Practice Specialist), and a simple call-analytics dashboard backed by SQLite. The author documents technical challenges (function-calling schema mismatches, secret management) and publishes the project repository on GitHub.

• Bharat Buddy is a multilingual voice tutor that supports Hindi, English and Hinglish and is voice-first.
• The project uses LiveKit for real-time voice communication, an LLM for reasoning, and Murf Falcon (Murf AI) for text-to-speech.
• Implemented features include memory, tool calling, AI-initiated outbound calls, human escalation workflows, specialist-agent handoffs, and call analytics stored in SQLite.

Voice AI Assistant for Indian Farmers Built in 10 Days

A developer built "Farm & Field," a voice AI assistant for Indian farmers during the 10 Days of Voice Agents — VoiceForBharat Edition by Murf AI. The system integrates Speech-to-Text, an LLM, Text-to-Speech, and real-time transport (Deepgram, Google Gemini, Murf Falcon, LiveKit) with SQLite-backed memory, weather and market-price tools, human escalation, a specialist crop agent, outbound calling via LiveKit SIP, and call analytics. The agent supports Malayalam, English, and Manglish, requests consent before storing memory, and hands off to humans or specialists when appropriate. The project code is available on GitHub.

• Author built Farm & Field during the 10 Days of Voice Agents — VoiceForBharat Edition by Murf AI.
• Core stack: Deepgram (STT), Google (Gemini) for LLM, Murf Falcon (TTS), and LiveKit (real-time transport).
• Features include multilingual Malayalam/English/Manglish support, memory-with-consent, weather and market-price tools, human escalation, and a Crop Problem Specialist agent.

Fireflies adds dictation to desktop apps

Fireflies.ai, known for AI meeting notetaking, has launched Fireflies Talk, a dictation feature for its Mac and Windows apps. The feature allows users to press a hotkey (Fn on Mac, Ctrl+Win on Windows) to speak and have their words transcribed in any app. Fireflies bundles this new capability into existing subscription plans at no extra cost, positioning it as an expansion beyond meetings to email, Slack, docs, and other work contexts. The company emphasizes privacy by storing transcripts locally and not keeping recordings. The move aligns with Fireflies' broader strategy to automate workflows and build an AI assistant that leverages meeting context and user data. The feature competes with dedicated dictation apps like Wispr Flow, Willow, and Superwhisper.

• Fireflies.ai launched Fireflies Talk, a dictation feature for Mac and Windows apps.
• The feature is available via Fn key on Mac and Ctrl+Win on Windows.
• Fireflies Talk is bundled into existing subscription plans at no extra cost.

Speechify SIMBA 3.2 Featured in SourceForge Analysis of Voice AI Quality, Latency, and Cost

Speechify SIMBA 3.2 was featured in a SourceForge analysis and also covered by VentureBeat after topping two independent voice AI leaderboards.

Speechify SIMBA 3.2 Featured in VentureBeat After Topping Two Independent Voice AI Leaderboards

Speechify's SIMBA 3.2 has been featured in VentureBeat after topping two independent voice AI leaderboards.