
Boston-based startup leveraging AI and audio tech for safer, inclusive voice chat experiences.
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Real-time voice guardrails that catch when AI voice agents hallucinate, drift off-script, or miss user distress before it escalates.
Modulate's real-time voice intelligence detects scams, impersonation, and social engineering during financial conversations on banks, online marketplaces, and FinTech platforms.
Real-time voice moderation for games and social platforms. ToxMod detects harassment, hate, threats and grooming in live voice chat and routes it to moderators.
Catch deepfake calls, social-engineering and ATO fraud in real time with voice-native intelligence. Detects what transcripts miss.
The company offers an API for transcription and emotion detection.
Modulate partnered with Activision to bring ToxMod to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone, and planned to add it to Modern Warfare III at its November launch.
Modulate announced a $30 million Series A funding round.
The page features Modulate's latest posts about online trust and safety.
Modulate has a team.
Modulate's Transcription API is 10x lower cost than Deepgram. Trained on 500M hours or real-world, noisy data, Modulate’s API is more accurate across 3 independent benchmarks.
The page compares Modulate and Pindrop for voice fraud and deepfake detection and contact center insights, including real-time conversation intelligence.
The page compares Modulate and Resemble AI for deepfake detection and fraud prevention, including real-time conversation intelligence beyond synthetic audio detection.
The Resemble vs Modulate comparison reports half the error rate and 578x lower cost.
Modulate's team includes top audio experts, leading machine learning researchers, and passionate thought leaders.
Modulate discusses its voice AI technology, partnerships, and product demos.
Modulate is a frontier voice AI company building the world’s first Ensemble Listening Model that outperforms LLMs at understanding real conversations.
The page describes data that Modulate collects and how it shares it to interact with users, deliver products and services, and conduct business operations.
Modulate's online Terms of Service
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Oct 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article
Voice AI startup Modulate raises $25 million, led by Future Ventures, to expand access to its audio-native models for developers. Its Velma platform analyzes raw conversation audio for emotion, intent, deepfakes, harassment and voice-agent performance, using an architecture that combines specialized models; the company says it processes more than 10 million hours monthly. Modulate plans new SDKs and APIs, industry-specific models, expanded integrations, and hiring in research, engineering and developer relations.
Sep 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article
Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate raises $25 million to support its platform for transcription, emotion and intent analysis, synthetic-audio detection, and policy enforcement for voice agents. Future Ventures leads the round, with Hyperplane and Lakestar participating; Modulate runs more than 100 small models for signal extraction and analysis. The company serves call centers and regulated enterprises, and plans to hire 10 employees while expanding on-premises and on-device deployment.
Sep 2026 · TechCrunchNews article
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