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Cerence AI has received the ECARX 2026 Quality Pioneer Award at ECARX's Global Partner Conference – for the third consecutive year – recognizing our reliable, compliant, and seamless AI solutions and continuous innovation in automotive AI. This reflects the strong, trusted partnership we've built with ECARX since 2017, delivering multilingual speech recognition, AI-powered voice assistants, and next-generation intelligent cockpit experiences across GEELY brands including Proton, smart Automobile, Group Lotus, and Lynk & Co. Looking ahead, we aim to deepen this collaboration further – advancing AI-driven intelligent cockpit experiences across Chinese and global markets with our hybrid agentic AI platform, Cerence xUI™.

🍒 The Secret Ingredient? A VoiceLaier. We'll be joining our partner Code Factory S.L. at the National Restaurant Association Show this May. The Code Factory team – along with Sai Yagnyamurthy and Mi Yu from Cerence AI – will demo VoiceLaier: an embedded voice AI solution built for self-service kiosks that lets customers place orders through natural, conversational exchanges. Stop by Booth #6773 to see voice-powered kiosk ordering in action. #2026RestaurantShow

Voice is no longer just an output – it's a traceable, accountable AI artifact. The EU AI Act's Article 50(2) sets clear transparency requirements for synthetic audio: AI-generated speech must be machine-readable, marked, and detectable as synthetic, with obligations expected to apply from August 2, 2026. 📜🛡️ At Cerence AI, we didn't wait for the deadline. We've already built compliance into our TTS product, with machine-readable metadata and digital audio watermarking that work consistently across both cloud and embedded environments – so our customers can move forward with confidence today. In a world where deepfakes and voice manipulation are increasingly accessible, the ability to verify and trust AI-generated audio is foundational. We see the EU AI Act not as a compliance hurdle, but as an opportunity to set a higher bar for trusted, verifiable AI voice. → Read the full blog: https://lnkd.in/diy_XZ6W

Agentic AI is playing an increasingly important role in factories, logistics hubs and industrial environments where reliability and safety are non-negotiable! 🏭 As AI moves beyond screens and into physical operations, voice is emerging as the most natural way to keep humans meaningfully in the loop. In noisy, hands‑busy and highly regulated settings, voice enables operators to query, command and confirm actions in real time – without interrupting physical workflows. HANNOVER MESSE 2026 captured this shift in plain sight. The takeaway: as agentic systems move from concept to deployment, interaction becomes a system requirement. Trust, in these environments, is built through interfaces that make intent, action and accountability visible – especially when AI acts autonomously. → Read more: https://lnkd.in/dp7t8USA

Vibe design has entered the chat... 🎨 As AI capabilities accelerate, the way we design user experiences is changing. Concepts like vibe coding are opening the door to what we’re starting to call vibe design – a shift not in fundamentals, but in workflow, speed and creative momentum. In a new Q&A, Markus Funk, our Director of User Experience at Cerence AI, shares how AI-driven workflows are helping teams move from ideas to tangible prototypes in minutes instead of days – with faster iteration, more room for exploration, and the ability to test assumptions early. The takeaway: great UX still depends on expertise, judgment, and care. AI amplifies skill – it doesn't replace it. UX teams that stay curious while remaining grounded in fundamentals will be best positioned to turn advanced AI capabilities into intuitive, human-centered experiences. → Read Markus' full perspective: https://lnkd.in/d3J4usSw

AI is moving out of the cloud and into the physical world – cars, factory floors, logistics hubs, frontline operations. That shift has revealed a fundamental truth: 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. But infrastructure has a higher bar. Voice has to hold up when noise rises, when multiple speakers overlap and when network conditions deteriorate. With this shift, we're seeing a divide between simple voice and resilient voice. Simple voice breaks under pressure. Resilient voice holds up in challenging, real-world conditions. At Cerence AI, we leverage decades of voice AI innovation and a battle-tested portfolio of IP to deliver resilient voice to our customers. 🔗 Read Kaivan Karimi’s full perspective → https://lnkd.in/d7dUEtQZ