{"id":1029965,"date":"2026-08-20T08:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029965"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:57:28","slug":"india-startup-aims-to-compete-with-openai-in-crowded-voice-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/india-startup-aims-to-compete-with-openai-in-crowded-voice-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"India startup aims to compete with OpenAI in crowded voice arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangalore-based startup has entered the crowded race to build artificial voices that sound human, with an AI model that garners high scores versus systems from OpenAI and ElevenLabs Inc. <\/p>\n<p>Murf AI\u2019s text-to-speech Falcon 2, publicly available from August 20, ranked higher than some platforms from better-funded players such as OpenAI\u2019s Realtime API in benchmarks on Artificial Analysis, the independent platform that tracks AI performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangalore-based startup has entered the crowded race to build artificial voices that sound human, with an AI model that garners high scores versus systems from OpenAI and ElevenLabs Inc. Murf AI\u2019s text-to-speech Falcon 2, publicly available from August 20, ranked higher than some platforms from better-funded players such as OpenAI\u2019s Realtime API in benchmarks on Artificial Analysis, the independent platform that tracks AI performance.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029965","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=1029965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029999,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029965\/revisions\/1029999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}