Free voice AI resources for students
Credits, free courses, hackathons, grants and internships — checked weekly.
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Learn voice AI
Free courses on speech recognition, text-to-speech and building voice agents.
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Student offers and free tiers for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agent APIs.
Compete and win
Voice AI hackathons, sponsor prizes and research challenges you can enter.
Fund my research
PhD fellowships and travel grants to present speech research at conferences.
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Internships at voice AI companies, updated daily.
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Open-source speech and voice models to learn from and contribute to.
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Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (North America)
Qualcomm · Qualcomm runs a competition for teams of two PhD students at 25 US and Canadian universities, and "Speech AI, ASR, TTS, and voice user interfaces" is a listed area of interest.
IndustryTeam awardSpeech AI
$50,000
3 days left
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
NVIDIA · NVIDIA funds PhD research in accelerated computing, and "AI — Language Models and Speech" is one of its listed research areas.
IndustryPhDSpeech & LLMs
Up to $60,000
14 days left
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RoboHEARD 2027: Robot Audio-Visual Speech Recognition
ICASSP 2027 Satellite Challenge · An ICASSP 2027 satellite challenge to work out who spoke, when and what they said, using a mobile robot's onboard cameras and microphones.
Audio-visual ASRRoboticsICASSP 2027
$3,600 in prizes
30 days left
RTC-SDD: Speech Deepfake Detection Challenge
ICASSP 2027 Grand Challenge · An ICASSP 2027 Grand Challenge to detect deepfake speech after it has passed through real-time communication platforms.
Deepfake detectionICASSP 2027Codabench
Research challenge
31 days left
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Students ask
How can students get free API credits for voice AI?+
Azure for Students gives $100 of credit with a school email and no credit card, plus a free Azure AI Speech tier. Deepgram gives $200 of free credit to anyone who signs up, and ElevenLabs and Cartesia have free monthly plans.
What's the best free course to learn speech recognition?+
The Hugging Face Audio Course is free and covers speech recognition, text-to-speech and audio classification with transformers, finishing with a voice-assistant project. You need Python and basic machine learning.
Are there voice AI internships for students?+
Yes. The AI Voice Base jobs board lists internships and roles open to freshers at voice AI companies, refreshed daily from each company's own careers page.
Can I get travel funding to present at Interspeech or ICASSP?+
Yes. ISCA offers Interspeech travel grants of roughly €500–€2,500 depending on your region, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society gives student members up to $1,500 to present at ICASSP, paid as a reimbursement.