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2026 (projected): full-year mentions and posts are linear estimates from recorded activity. Company counts and summary totals use recorded activity. Forecast growth compares the estimate with the preceding completed year.

Mentions Over Time

39,418
Total Mentions
5,574
Posts mentioning Trend
289
Companies Mentioning
32,951 (projected)
Most mentions in a year
Year Mentions Posts Companies YoY Change
2026 (projected) 272/365d ~32,951 24,555 actual ~3,469 2,585 actual 163 Forecast 204.6%
2025 10,819 1,678 191 +280.8%
2024 2,841 785 108 +226.2%
2023 871 379 71 +386.6%
2022 179 90 26 +17.0%
2021 153 57 14 +537.5%

Most Recent Blog Posts on Voice AI

DateCompanyTitleMentions
Sept. 29, 2026 AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime: trained on real conversations, built for real voice agents 7
Sept. 28, 2026 Bland 48 AI Phone Agent Pricing Models: Full Cost Breakdown 2026 40
Sept. 28, 2026 Twilio Building Localised, Enterprise-Grade AI Voice Agents 11
Sept. 28, 2026 Retell AI FDCPA and Reg F for Automated Collection Calls 11
Sept. 28, 2026 Retell AI Collection Call Scripts: the Rule Behind Every Line 9
Sept. 28, 2026 Retell AI First-Party vs Third-Party Collections: Which One AI Calling Actually Fits 9
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Sept. 28, 2026 Retell AI Medical Debt Collection: What Changed and What Calls Can Still Do 6
Sept. 28, 2026 ElevenLabs Eleven v4: Our most expressive text-to-speech AI model yet 4
Sept. 28, 2026 Parallel Web Systems Fast vs. Turbo: choosing a Parallel Search mode for agent loops 4
Sept. 28, 2026 Retell AI 14 Best Customer Service Tools for 2026, by Team Size 4
Sept. 28, 2026 Resemble AI Top 6 AI Deepfake Fraud Detection Techniques for Cybersecurity 1
Sept. 28, 2026 Twilio How to Build an RCS Business Messaging Campaign with Twilio in PHP 1
Sept. 28, 2026 TestMu AI Claude Opus 5.5 Explained: What's New & Why It Matters for AI Agents 1
Sept. 27, 2026 Bland 14 Ways How Much Does a Voice AI Platform Cost in 2026 68
Sept. 27, 2026 Bland 16 Best No-Code AI Phone Agent Tools for Non-Technical Teams 40
Sept. 27, 2026 Hugging Face YODAS v3: A 1 Million Hour Dataset for the Next Generation of Open Voice AI Research 3
Sept. 26, 2026 Twilio How to handle real-time interruptions in your AI voice agent 18
Sept. 25, 2026 Bland 14 Best Voice AI With No-Code Conversation Pathway Builders 2026 59
Sept. 25, 2026 ElevenLabs Voice agent capabilities: Training, memory, and more 34
Sept. 25, 2026 Retell AI How Agencies Price AI Voice Agents: Four Margin Models That Survive Renewal 12
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Sept. 25, 2026 Twilio The #1 AI behavior hurting your customers’ experiences 4
Sept. 25, 2026 ElevenLabs Introducing ElevenLabs for Students 4
Sept. 25, 2026 Gladia Why speech-to-text accuracy matters upstream of your LLM 2
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Sept. 24, 2026 Bland Most Accurate Speech Recognition Voice AI For Non-Native Accents: Best Speech Recognition… 31
Sept. 24, 2026 Twilio How to Test and Fix Voice AI Agent Prompts with Twilio Conversation Relay and Cekura 23
Sept. 24, 2026 Retell AI Outbound IVR Calls: Where They Still Work and Where a Voice Agent Beats Them 17
Sept. 24, 2026 AssemblyAI Why your voice agent mishears "8" as "H" 11
Sept. 24, 2026 Retell AI Prior Authorization Automation: Where Voice Fits in the Payer Call Loop 10
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Sept. 24, 2026 Vantage Vantage Launches Support for Cartesia Costs 5
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Sept. 24, 2026 Vapi Behind the Features: Your Top Questions from the Vapi Webinar, Answered 3
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Sept. 24, 2026 AssemblyAI Best Wispr Flow alternatives 3
Sept. 24, 2026 Hume Newly-released Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS tops Hume's Real-World VoiceEQ leaderboard 1
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Sept. 23, 2026 Bland Voice AI That Handles Multiple Languages And Accents Accurately: How to Choose Multilingu… 62
Sept. 23, 2026 Retell AI Self Service IVR: How It Works, What Callers Can Do, and What Comes Next 17
Sept. 23, 2026 Retell AI Scaling Customer Support: 10 Strategies That Do Not Require 10x the Headcount 9
Sept. 23, 2026 Voiceflow Retail Voice AI: Reach Your Systems, Not Your CRM 9
Sept. 23, 2026 Retell AI Autonomous Customer Service: What It Is, How It Works, and Where to Start 8
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Sept. 23, 2026 Retell AI Customer Service Pricing: What Support Costs and How Each Model Bills You 8
Sept. 23, 2026 Vapi Fast decisions alongside voice AI: early experiments with Jev 7

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