Talk, don’t type: Big Tech bets AI’s future will be spoken
OpenAI and Google invest heavily in voice systems as main way to interact with a new generation of AI agents
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Published: 6 August 2026
Source: Financial Times Technology (headlines)
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 6 August 2026
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