This week a neural echo canceller showed up in Chrome without a single announcement. We had a nice crop of 101 posts as well - oh - and a mind boggling demo by Tavus.
⭐ Tsahi’s Pick
Google Chrome downloads a new neural AEC while you are not looking (webrtcHacks)
Chrome quietly downloaded a 425 KB neural model into your browser profile and handed it part of AEC3’s job: estimating how much echo is left after the linear filter. It runs on every getUserMedia audio call. Philipp Hancke ran a comparison of it against good ol’ AEC3. The TL;DR? It is awesome incarnate. Available in Chrome only. No Chromium. No Edge. No Safari. No Firefox. No libWebRTC on your mobile device.
📰 This Week in WebRTC
Tavus digital humans demo (X) - a real-time digital humans demo from Tavus. Check it out. Mindboggling
WebRTC vs SIP: How an AI Receptionist Answers Phone and Web Callers (WebRTC.Ventures) - when an AI receptionist needs SIP, WebRTC, or both
How to Get Started With WebRTC: Intro to Browser APIs (Twilio) - a beginner walkthrough of the browser WebRTC APIs
WebRTC Has Been a Boon - Radio World (Radio World) - feels more like a piece written in 2016
A Senior WebRTC Engineer’s Take on RTC.ON 2026 (WebRTC.Ventures) - an engineer’s notes from RTC.ON 2026, where MoQ took most of the stage
SipRadius Honored with Technology & Engineering Emmy Award (Content Technology) - SipRadius shares an Emmy for remote broadcast monitoring built on DRM-protected WebRTC and RIST
WebRTC Data Channel for AI Metadata: A Builder’s Guide (Trembit) - a builder’s guide to data channels with an AI lipstick put on it
A WebRTC stats API for AI agents: what we changed (rtcStats) - how the stats API answers differently for humans and for AI agents
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📢 Releases
Wowza Streaming Engine 4.12.0 - WebRTC gets simulcast, NACK/RTX, ICE restart and data channels, plus WHIP stream targets
OpenVidu 3.9.0 - programmatic control over live meetings in OpenVidu Meet, plus steadier behavior when networks change
Multi-screen support for Jitsi Meet - one meeting rendered across several displays