Lightspeed - The Future of Voice: Our Thoughts On How It Will Transform Conversational AI - September 2024

An article by Lightspeed Venture Partners discussing the evolution and future of voice AI, including the role of LLMs and multi-modal chatbots in transforming conversational AI. It covers the history of commercial voice applications, the current state of voice AI with reference architectures (STT, TTT, TTS), and the market opportunity, predicting significant growth in voice applications across healthcare, hospitality, and SaaS.