The phone is still the universal API in healthcare. Not FHIR. Not a clean REST endpoint. A literal phone call. Most clinics, insurance carriers, and providers rely on voice as the only way to exchange data. So when people ask, “Why voice AI in healthcare?” The answer is

We're launching Vapi for Creators to amplify your content! Get free minutes, referral revenue, a private creator community and distribution across our channels.

Introducing Vapi Guides - a growing library of real-world examples - now with new Workflow guides! • Appointment scheduling • Lead qualification • Clinic triage and routing • E-commerce order management Start building your own agent in minutes! Link 👇

VapiCon - the first-ever summit dedicated to voice. October 2, San Francisco. 250 engineers, researchers, and builders redefining real-time voice infrastructure. Live demos. Hands-on workshops. One of our biggest product launches yet.

We hosted a voice AI hackathon with AssemblyAI in NYC last Friday - and it was awesome! 40 devs, 8 hours, and some of the craziest voice agents we’ve ever seen. Founders, hackers, and builders turned wild ideas into working voice apps on the spot.

Introducing Cartesia Ink-Whisper on Vapi! Slow STT ruins conversations. With Ink-Whisper, just one line in your Vapi config gets you: • Faster, streaming-optimized transcripts • Better handling of background noise and accents Start using it on Vapi today.

This Father’s Day, one of our developers used Vapi to build an AI assistant that called his dad… using his cloned voice. His dad didn’t realize it wasn’t him. Watch the call + try it yourself ↓

Last night's YC AI Startup School afterparty was absolutely incredible. 150+ AI founders and builders packed into Vapi HQ in San Francisco for an evening that perfectly captured why this community is so special. Full Jordan interview recording in the thread 👇

Introducing SF Voice AI Builders Meetup - the FIRST regular monthly community meetup for voice AI developers in the Bay Area! July 11, 6:00 PM This isn't another product demo. It's YOUR stage to show what you're building.

🚨 Vapi Build challenge results are in! We judged 300+ submissions. Gave away $20K. And saw some wild voice AI ideas. Meet the winners of the Build with Vapi Challenge 👇

Voice stole the show at the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon. 1,500+ hackers showed up and 100+ projects were powered by Vapi. Vapi Winners: • MediBuddy - ER data collection agent • Vocal AI - real-time singing coach • ICU - voice- and gesture-guided "eyes" for the visually impaired

Introducing Vapi integration with @Inworld_AI. TTS‑1 is Inworld's first text-to-speech model, built for real-time latency, high speaker similarity, and multilingual support. Now available as a voice provider in Vapi. Try it today in Vapi dashboard.

Introducing support for Arcana by @RimeLabs in Vapi. Arcana is Rime’s new text-to-speech model designed for expressive, real-time voice — with 200ms latency, multilingual support, and audio markups for emotion and nonverbals. Now available in the Vapi dashboard.

We’re hosting an AMA on X Spaces this Monday at 5PM PST. Join us for a live Q&A on building with Vapi, scaling voice infrastructure, and what’s next in voice-powered applications. If you’re building agents, tools, or just curious - tune in.

The YC S25 kickoff at Vapi HQ was packed. We told the raw story of how we built Vapi: pivots, infra pain, finding PMF, and making it work when it almost didn’t. Video’s up now on YouTube.

Standard denoisers preserve all speech, including TVs and background conversations. We built a real-time adaptive filter using rolling baselines and Fourier transforms that suppresses background speech and prevents junk transcription. See blogpost outlining how it works ↓

Never miss a Voice AI update again. We cover everything happening in the space, every week. Next issue drops in 48 hours 👀

We’ve published a deep dive on how we rebuilt the voice AI pipeline around streaming instead of batching, eliminating the dead air that made conversations feel robotic.

We’re thrilled to announce that Michael Siebel (Partner Emeritus & former CEO of Y Combinator) is joining the lineup at VapiCon as the keynote speaker! Michael has mentored 800+ companies personally and shaped the journey of 3,000+ startups across 90+ countries.

Big news: Vapi is named a Rising Star in the Forbes 2025 Cloud 100! We’re building the voice infrastructure for the next decade. It is a great honor to be recognized alongside the best in cloud + AI. Thank you Forbes and Bessemer for this recognition!