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Gladia to join OVH Groupe, accelerating Europe's sovereign voice AI ambitions
PARIS, France — Sept 21, 2026 — Gladia, the AI audio infrastructure provider trusted by more than 300,000 developers and 2,000 enterprise customers worldwide, announced July 31st, that it has been acquired by OVH Groupe, the parent company of OVHcloud and Europe's leading sovereign cloud provider.
Migrating from Azure Speech to Gladia: a step-by-step switching guide
TL;DR: Migrating from Azure Speech to Gladia removes the overhead of custom training pipelines and fragmented per-feature billing. Azure routes diarization, translation, and sentiment through separate services with separate billing meters. We bundle all audio intelligence into one per-hour rate on Starter and Growth plans. Solaria-3 ranks #1 for real-world European business audio, Solaria-1 covers 100+ languages with native code-switching. Both deliver out-of-the-box accuracy that eliminates custom training for most production audio. Most engineering teams complete the API refactoring in under 24 hours.
How to evaluate a speech-to-text API: a technical buyer's framework
TL;DR: Choosing an STT API on vendor benchmarks alone is how teams end up with transcription that looks fine in staging and breaks on production audio. A rigorous evaluation requires building a test set from your own calls, measuring word error rate (WER) on your specific audio distribution, stress-testing latency under concurrent load, and auditing data retraining terms before signing. This guide gives you a reusable engineering blueprint to run that evaluation end-to-end, the same methodology behind our own open async benchmark, which covers 7 datasets and 74+ hours of audio across 8 providers.
Gladia and Pipecat partner to push the boundaries of real-time voice AI
Published on May 14, 2025
We’re thrilled to announce a strategic partnership between Gladia and Daily, the team behind Pipecat, aimed at revolutionizing real-time conversational AI. This collaboration combines our cutting-edge audio intelligence capabilities with their flexible 100% open-source framework, empowering developers to create more dynamic, multilingual, and context-aware voice AI applications.
We’re thrilled to announce a strategic partnership between Gladia and Daily, the team behind Pipecat, aimed at revolutionizing real-time conversational AI. This collaboration combines our cutting-edge audio intelligence capabilities with their flexible 100% open-source framework, empowering developers to create more dynamic, multilingual, and context-aware voice AI applications.
Pipecat is a vendor-neutral framework designed to simplify the creation of voice and multimodal conversational agents. It allows developers to orchestrate LLM models and AI services effortlessly, enabling the development of video and voice applications such as personal coaches, meeting assistants, and customer support bots.
Pipecat is maintained by Daily with the support of the global developer community. Daily is a leader in developer tooling and global WebRTC infrastructure since 2016. Earlier this year Daily announced Pipecat Cloud, the first open source voice AI cloud.
About the partnership
At Gladia, we believe the future of human-AI interaction lies in systems that understand and respond in real-time, just like humans do. Pushing the boundaries of ultra low latency conversational AI is key to bridging the gap between humans and machines, enabling more natural, intuitive communication. In today’s world, where seamless interactions are crucial, having AI that can understand diverse languages and contexts is essential for real collaboration in customer support, meetings, and beyond.
This partnership with Pipecat goes beyond technology—it empowers developers to easily create intelligent, adaptable, multilingual voice AI applications that break down barriers and foster meaningful interactions. By combining Gladia's language processing with Pipecat's flexible framework, we can enable the creation of robust voice platforms that meet the needs of a wide range of use cases.
A shared vision for the future
This partnership is more than just a technical integration; it's a shared commitment to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in real-time conversational AI. In the words of Daily's co-founder:
Jean-Louis Queguiner, CEO of Gladia, also shared his excitement for the partnership: "At Gladia, we believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible in real-time conversational AI. Partnering with Pipecat allows us to extend that vision even further—combining our advanced language processing capabilities with Pipecat’s open-source platform to help developers create truly innovative, scalable voice AI solutions. This collaboration is about more than just technology; it's about shaping the future of human-AI interaction."
What this means for developers
Developers can now leverage the combined strengths of Pipecat and Gladia to build more sophisticated voice AI applications. Whether you're creating a multilingual customer support bot, a real-time meeting assistant, or an interactive storytelling agent, this partnership provides the tools and flexibility needed to bring your vision to life.
To get started, visit pipecat.ai to explore the framework and sign up to the Gladia Playground to try first-hand our newest STT model, Solaria.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to innovate and expand the possibilities of real-time conversational AI.
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