Beyond Transcription: How Synthetic Rooms Are Solving Voice AI's Hardest Open Problem
Since Google researchers introduced the Transformer architecture in Attention Is All You Need in 2017, language models have become dramatically better at processing and generating text. After ChatGPT's public release in late 2022, the ambition around voice systems expanded quickly. Meeting software, clinical scribes, speech-infrastructure companies, and voice-agent startups all began chasing a larger idea: spoken conversation could become structured, searchable, and actionable.