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Vapi

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Velocity5.0

Voice AI platform for building, testing, and deploying voice agents.

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Vapi rounds out transcriber options, real-time signals, and monitoring as its voice infra hardens for production

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◆Current state
Vapi's recent releases concentrate on production-grade voice infrastructure rather than new capability surfaces. The transcriber lineup is expanding — Soniox is now GA, Deepgram Flux gained multilingual support, and an autofallback plan lets the platform pick a backup transcriber mid-call if the primary fails. Real-time signals for UI consumers are also maturing: assistant.speechStarted went GA with per-word timing on ElevenLabs and cursor-based word progress on Minimax, opening clean integrations for live captions and karaoke-style UI. Squads agent handoffs picked up a previousAssistantMessages context type, and Monitoring graduated to GA in mid-April with trigger-based rules and dashboard alerts.
◆Where it's heading
The shipping cadence is weekly and the through-line is consolidation from feature-shipping to production-ready surfaces — GA flags, fallback plans, monitoring. The transcriber expansion is the most directional piece: Soniox plus Deepgram Flux plus autofallback selection is both a hedge against single-provider dependence and a clear play for multilingual workloads. The crawler is picking up duplicate stub entries per week alongside the content-bearing ones, which inflates the apparent volume but does not reflect duplicate releases.
◆Prediction
Expect a TTS-side mirror of the transcriber autofallback work next, given the symmetry of the voice stack, plus deeper Monitoring integrations — likely structured alert webhooks and custom rule templates. The previousAssistantMessages handoff type suggests more granular context-shaping primitives for Squads are queued.

◆Recent moves

  1. 10d ago

    What’s New: Week of May 11, 2026

    Stub weekly-changelog entry — the crawler captured the date heading but no body. Treat as a placeholder; the substantive changes for this week are not visible in the feed.

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  2. 17d ago

    What’s New: Week of May 4, 2026

    Duplicate stub for the week-of-May-4 changelog — no body content. The same week's content-bearing entry covers the actual Soniox GA announcement.

  3. 17d ago

    Soniox transcriber hits general availability

    Soniox transcriber hits general availability, configurable on any assistant via assistant.transcriber as a low-latency multilingual real-time option. Fits the broader transcriber-bench expansion that defines the current trajectory.

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  4. 24d ago

    What’s New: Week of April 27, 2026

    Duplicate stub for the week-of-April-27 changelog — no body. The Deepgram Flux multilingual announcement lives in the sibling entry for the same week.

  5. 24d ago

    Deepgram Flux gains multilingual support

    Deepgram Flux gains full multilingual support, extending the smart turn-taking behavior already available for English to cross-lingual conversations. Another step in the transcriber-bench expansion arc.

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  6. 24d ago

    What’s New: Week of April 27, 2026

    Near-duplicate of the same week's Deepgram Flux multilingual entry, picked up by the crawler on the prior day with the doubled date heading. The substantive content is the same.

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