Microsoft will retire Azure Communication Services (ACS) as a standalone offering on September 30, 2028. After that date, Microsoft supports ACS video only in applications that connect to Microsoft Teams. Companies that use ACS to embed video in their own products will need a new platform, and
In the space of thirteen months, Google took real-time speech translation from an English-and-Spanish demo at I/O 2025 to Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a 70-language streaming model announced in June 2026 and now expanding into Google Meet through private preview, on top of the five-language version already
WebRTC.ventures recently completed a Kurento to LiveKit migration for a client running one of the more complex real-time platforms we’ve worked on, and we did it without downtime. The platform had conferences, webinars, inbound telephony (call center), outbound telephony, recordings, and live transcription and translation in English
For years, developers building real-time video and audio applications on the web have worked under a quiet constraint: whatever protocol you chose, it had to work in Safari. Well, that’s not 100% true because many WebRTC apps used to have disclaimers like “works best in Chrome”. When
