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title: "Phonic's New Voice Model Tops Agentic AI Speech Benchmark"
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summary: "Phonic's Phonic-1 voice model scored 87.1 on the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech index, surpassing xAI's Grok Voice 3.0, and completed 79.9% of customer-service simulations with 0.61 seconds to first audio. The model can execute tool lookups and bookings while a user is still talking, responding 1.1 seconds after a caller stopped in a demo compared to 15.7 seconds for OpenAI's GPT-Live. Phonic, a 10-person startup, raised $27.5M in a Series A led by First Round, bringing total funding to $31.5M, and its speech technology powers AI job interviews for Ashby across 25 countries."
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# Phonic's New Voice Model Tops Agentic AI Speech Benchmark

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**Published:** 2026-10-29T18:54:32.000Z
**Category:** Models
**Topics:** agent

## Summary

Phonic's Phonic\-1 voice model scored 87\.1 on the Artificial Analysis speech\-to\-speech index, surpassing xAI's Grok Voice 3\.0, and completed 79\.9% of customer\-service simulations with 0\.61 seconds to first audio\. The model can execute tool lookups and bookings while a user is still talking, responding 1\.1 seconds after a caller stopped in a demo compared to 15\.7 seconds for OpenAI's GPT\-Live\. Phonic, a 10\-person startup, raised $27\.5M in a Series A led by First Round, bringing total funding to $31\.5M, and its speech technology powers AI job interviews for Ashby across 25 countries\.

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