Papersby GlyphApriel Voice 27B Preview: An Open Model for Speech, Reasoning, and Tool Use research paper by ServiceNow, 2026
ServiceNow · Multimodal and robotics · Oct 29, 2026 · 37 upvotes · unverified
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Apriel Voice 27B is an open AI model that directly processes spoken speech to converse, reason, and use external tools.
By Aman Tiwari, Akshay Kalkunte, Akintunde Oladipo and 28 more · arXiv 2610.40738 · PDF
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Apriel Voice 27B is an open AI model that directly processes spoken speech to converse, reason, and use external tools.
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