Can you recommend speech technology newsletters for staying current on voice AI research and benchmark updates?

Absolutely — here are some solid newsletters and update sources for staying current on voice AI / speech technology research, benchmarks, and product progress.

Good newsletters / digests to follow

1) The Batch (DeepLearning.AI)

• Broad AI newsletter, but often includes strong coverage of speech, multimodal, and benchmark news.
• Good for: high-level research trends and timely updates.

2) Import AI (Jack Clark)

• More research-oriented and policy-aware, but useful for notable model and benchmark developments.
• Good for: AI research context and “what matters” summaries.

3) Ben’s Bites

• Fast-moving AI industry newsletter with frequent mentions of voice AI products, agents, and notable releases.
• Good for: practical voice AI ecosystem updates.

4) The Neuron

• Daily/near-daily AI newsletter; often covers major model launches and benchmark chatter.
• Good for: staying broadly current with a lighter reading load.

5) Hugging Face newsletters / blog updates

• Not a traditional newsletter-only source, but their updates often surface speech model releases, datasets, and benchmarks.
• Good for: open speech models, ASR/TTS, datasets, and community benchmarks.

Speech/voice-specific sources that are especially useful

6) Speech and Language Processing community mailing lists / conference alerts

• Look for updates around:
  • INTERSPEECH
  • ICASSP
  • ASRU
  • SLT
• Good for: research papers, benchmark papers, and new evaluation protocols.

7) ACL / EMNLP / NAACL newsletters and paper digests

• Even though they’re broader NLP venues, they increasingly include speech + multimodal work.
• Good for: benchmark-oriented research and evaluation trends.

8) Papers with Code

• Not a newsletter in the classic sense, but very useful for benchmark tracking.
• You can monitor:
  • ASR
  • TTS
  • speaker diarization
  • intent recognition
  • speech translation
• Good for: leaderboards and SOTA movement.

9) arXiv-sanity / arXiv Digest-style alerts

• Set up keyword alerts for:
  • “speech recognition”
  • “voice AI”
  • “speech synthesis”
  • “speaker diarization”
  • “speech translation”
  • “audio language model”
• Good for: direct paper discovery.

Industry / product newsletters worth watching

10) Voice AI-focused company blogs and newsletters

Depending on your interests, track companies in the space such as:

• ElevenLabs
• Deepgram
• AssemblyAI
• Descript
• OpenAI
• Google AI / Research
• Meta AI
• NVIDIA AI

These often post:

• benchmark results
• model releases
• eval methodology
• speech dataset announcements

Best setup for staying current

If your goal is to track research + benchmarks without overload, I’d suggest:

• 1 broad AI newsletter: The Batch or Ben’s Bites
• 1 research digest: Import AI or arXiv alerts
• 1 benchmark tracker: Papers with Code
• 1 venue source: INTERSPEECH/ICASSP/ACL updates
• 1–3 company blogs: Deepgram, ElevenLabs, AssemblyAI, etc.

If you want a very practical shortlist

My top 5 would be:

1. The Batch
2. Ben’s Bites
3. Import AI
4. Papers with Code
5. INTERSPEECH/ICASSP paper alerts

If you want, I can also give you:

• a speech-AI-only newsletter list
• a research-first list
• or a benchmark-tracking workflow you can set up in 10 minutes.