Ambient Computing via Voice AI is about to Enter its Golden Age in 2027

Genspark Workspace 2.0: What’s The Big Idea? Daniel Nest explores. OpenAI losing marketshare.

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Mar 13, 2026

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Good Morning,

I’m really bullish on the future of the Voice AI interface.

Once agentic AI and AI wearables mature, that dream of “ambient computing” is going to be closer to reality for many consumers.
Generative AI is enabling new convenience for consumers that will reshape how we access services, find information and deal with recurring tasks.
This has big implications in both B2C and B2B.

AI Wearables will transform Voice AI Convenience

I believe once better AI wearable devices are launched next year in 2027 including AI pins (wearables) and smart glasses form factors, it could be a breakthrough year for consumer AI voice experiences. From smart glasses to new kinds of pendants and pins, I expect Apple to dominate. Mid to late 2027 is the time this should really come to the foreground or around 18 months from now. For details about Apple’s upcoming AI devices read here.

To wrap your head around the ecosystem:

Voice AI Experiences will improve dramatically in 2027

Smart glasses are going to be good enough to strike a chord with consumers with strong offerings of both AI (and later AR) capabilities from Meta, Google, Alibaba, Xiaomi, Xreal, RayNeo (雷鸟创新) and of course Apple, among others.

The interface of how we interact with AI will become more multi-sensory, hands-off and accessible. The dream of ambient computing has a lot of potential to evolve in the decade ahead.

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Since the below infographic was made, there’s been dozens of AI Voice agent startups rewriting the future that are scaling now. We’ll list some of the major ones later on. They begin to mature in the late 2020s.

a16z. Consumer Voice Agents will scale in the 2020s. Snapshot: January, 2025.

I asked Daniel Nest of Why Try AI Newsletter to help me us understand Genspark’s new voice agent in Genspark Workspace 2.0. They have even introduced AI calling partnering with Twilio. This is the point in the week where I think we need to summarize some AI news events too of the last couple of weeks.

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Key Trend Analysis among Generative AI Apps and AI Tools

Recently a16z’s Olivia Moore released their Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, a series that I’ve been following religiously. While Claude saw a spike recently, it still only has about one 20th the daily active users of ChatGPT.

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March 11th, 2026.

Voice AI News

Claude Code rolls out Voice mode capabilities.
ElevenLabs released Scribe v2.
Read Claude Voice Mode.
Promising Voice AI startup Hume AI was gobbled up by Google.
Voice AI agents are going vertical.

ChatGPT’s Marketshare is Eroding

While OpenAI’s ChatGPT still has a huge base, Gemini, Grok, Claude and others are gaining marketshare too. A trend that appears to be accelerating.

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Consumer Paid Subscriptions 2026

I expect Gemini, Claude and Grok to have big years in 2026 and 2027 regarding consumer premium subscriptions putting pressure on OpenAI and slowing down their ARR (revenue growth). This is Anthropic and Cursor (Anysphere)’s Enterprise ARR keeps accelerating.

I’ve been impressed by the pace of innovation at Genspark and while I miss their Perplexity like AI search product, they are also entering the voice AI picture.

Genspark Workspace 2.0: What’s The Big Idea?

Daniel Nest of Why Try AI takes a deep dive into Genspark’s evolution of their AI Workspace and their Voice AI capabilities in particular. With explainer videos.

Since we wrote this piece Genspark has already released Workspace 3.0 just yesterday. Mere months after its Series B funding and “unicorn” status, Genspark launched the latest iteration of its agentic concept: AI Workspace 2.0.

AI Workspace 2.0 brings improvements to several existing agents as well as new features:

New launches:

Speakly: A new dictation assistant (think Wispr Flow and Superwhisper) that you can download for macOS or Windows. It lets you interact with all of Genspark’s agents and tools via voice instead of typing.
AI Music Agent that can create custom music (think Suno).
AI Audio Agent that does voiceovers and narration (think ElevenLabs).

Upgrades:

AI Inbox now supports automated workflows that perform specific actions like creating daily inbox digests, interacting with external messaging platforms like Slack, analyzing social media performance, etc
AI Creative Slides, AI Image Agent, and AI Video Agent are all more capable and incorporate the improved powers of newer, better underlying models.

While the under-the-hood upgrades and new music/audio agents are neat, what Genspark is leaning heavily into is Speakly and the promise of hands-free agentic work. Simply say what you need done, and Genspark’s Super Agent does it.

At least, that’s the idea.

To better understand Genspark’s vision, I tested the three new features and also conducted a written interview with the company’s COO, Wen Sang.

Read on to find out if Genspark can be more than the sum of its parts.

Testing the new tools

Let’s start with my hands-on tests and demos of the three new features.

1. Speakly: The voice agent

On the surface, Speakly is yet another voice dictation app. You speak into the microphone, and text comes out on the other end.

But what makes Speakly a great fit for Genspark’s infrastructure is the “agent” shortcut that sends your spoken request directly to Genspark’s Super Agent and the baked-in, intelligent processing of spoken input.

I demonstrate Speakly’s main features in this 7–minute hands-on video:

Watch it to learn:

How regular voice dictation works
How Speakly can auto-correct filler words and backtracking
Agent mode: Send a request or task to Genspark Super Agent from any screen
Translation mode: Speak in any language (or combination of languages), get English text.
Custom modes: From “Buzzwords” mode to “Twitter” mode, Genspark can process and rework your speech into any style or format. You can customize this to your needs.

If you want to try Speakly for yourself, grab it here:

[DOWNLOAD SPEAKLY FOR MAC OS OR WINDOWS]

2. AI Music: From requests to music tracks

If you have toyed with AI music sites like Suno or Udio, you already have a good idea about how this works. The agent can use different third-party AI music models to execute your task:

But because Genspark agents can coordinate their work with other agents, you can have more elaborate requests that require additional pre-processing. So I tried this:

Prompt: Watch this video about the launch of Genspark AI Workspace 2.0 and create a grand soundtrack worthy of this announcement:

Ed: All to say Genspark has a lot of exciting new products and features (not a Sponsor). Just a really innovative case study that I like to cover since nobody else is.

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