AI voice technology is evolving fast, and Augmented Voices is here to break it down. Sesame’s Maya brings emotional intelligence to AI voices, Eleven Labs’ Scribe offers industry-leading transcription, and Amazon’s Alexa Plus is now a fully-fledged AI assistant. Meanwhile, Apple faces delays in upgrading Siri, Perplexity AI enhances real-time voice search with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and OpenAI and Microsoft are making AI voice tools free for all. As competition heats up, the focus is shifting toward hyper-realistic, highly functional AI voices that are reshaping communication.