{"id":1026729,"date":"2026-08-06T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026729"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:26:43","slug":"smallest-ai-gets-21-million-in-funding-to-build-voice-4-0-the-next-generation-of-enterprise-voice-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/smallest-ai-gets-21-million-in-funding-to-build-voice-4-0-the-next-generation-of-enterprise-voice-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Smallest.ai gets $21 Million in Funding to Build Voice 4.0, the Next Generation of Enterprise Voice AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco (California) [US], August 5: Smallest.ai, a San Francisco-based foundational AI research lab building the next generation of real-time voice AI infrastructure for enterprises, today announced it has surpassed $21 million in total funding following the close of a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital. <\/p>\n<p>Industry forecasts expect the global Voice AI market to grow from $2.4 billion in 2024 to $47.5 billion by 2034, however, less than 1% of today&#8217;s global voice interactions are powered by AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco (California) [US], August 5: Smallest.ai, a San Francisco-based foundational AI research lab building the next generation of real-time voice AI infrastructure for enterprises, today announced it has surpassed $21 million in total funding following the close of a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital. Industry forecasts expect the global Voice AI market to grow from $2.4 billion in 2024 to $47.5 billion by 2034, however, less than 1% of today&#8217;s global voice interactions are powered by AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026785,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026729\/revisions\/1026785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}