Voice Research Club is a Voice Arena initiative in collaboration with the Bay Area Frontier Research Club.

Designed with researchers, for researchers, VRC will convene the voice and speech community for recurring, paper-driven technical sessions centered on current work, open problems, and rigorous discussion.

VRC is research-first and discussion-led. It is not a demo day, vendor showcase, or pitch event. Researchers from companies, universities, and independent labs are welcome; sales presentations are not.

Sessions are shaped by community paper submissions and recommendations, with final selections curated for technical rigor and discussion value.

The evening will feature two concise technical presentations followed by an extended research discussion. The talks provide the substrate; the Q&A is the main event.

Agenda

5:30pm: Doors open5:30pm – 6:30pm: Networking + light dinner6:30pm – 8:00pm: Research presentations + discussion8:00pm – 8:30pm: Networking

Presenters & topics

Talk 1 — TBA

Talk 2 — TBA

Want to Present Your Work?

If you have a research paper you would like to discuss at a future Voice Research Club session, submit it for consideration.

Submit your paper here

Who Should Attend

  • Speech, audio, and multimodal researchers

  • Research engineers building TTS, STT, speech-to-speech, or voice-agent systems

  • Teams working on voice benchmarks, datasets, infrastructure, and evaluation

  • Technical founders and product leaders building in voice AI

  • Researchers working on multilingual speech, accessibility, safety, or human-computer interaction

  • Investors and ecosystem leaders with an active technical interest in the category

Capacity is limited. Registration requires approval.

We will take photos and short video clips for event recap and promotion. By attending, you consent to being photographed and recorded, and to the use of those images and clips by the organizers on social media and other event marketing channels.

🌐 Connect with Frontier Research Club

Hosted by

The Frontier Syndicate

The Frontier Syndicate connects frontier-technology researchers, builders, and investors through curated research forums, build nights, private dinners, and early-stage capital. Its Frontier Research Club is a recurring forum for rigorous technical discussion—built around current work, open questions, and high-signal exchange across the Bay Area research ecosystem.

Voice Arena

Voice Arena is building the evaluation layer for voice AI. Its TTS and STT leaderboards compare leading voice models across languages, use cases, and deployment conditions, giving researchers and builders a clearer view of where the frontier is moving.

Array Ventures

Array Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm backing deeply technical founders from inception through Series A, with a focus on AI infrastructure, data, security, and enterprise software. Through Array AI Labs, the team also builds and experiments with frontier AI tooling alongside the founders it supports.

Learn more about Array Ventures