PlayAI clones voices on command
Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it’d be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles. The extension, which could read any Medium story aloud, was featured on Product Hunt. A year later, it spawned an entire business. “We saw a bigger opportunity in helping individuals and organizations create realistic audio content for their applications,” Syed told TechCrunch. “Without the need to build their own model, they could deploy hu
Nov 25, 2024
Voice cloning platform Resemble AI lands $8M
Resemble AI, a platform that uses generative AI to clone realistic-sounding voices, today announced that it raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures. The tranche, which brings the startup’s total raised to $12 million, will be put toward further developing Resemble’s […]
Jul 12, 2023
The creator of ChatGPT’s voice wants to build the tech from “Her,” minus the dystopia
Alexis Conneau thinks a lot about the movie “Her.” For the last several years, he’s obsessed over trying to turn the film’s fictional voice technology, Samantha, into a reality. Conneau even uses a picture of Joaquin Phoenix’s character in the movie as his banner on Twitter. Conneau’s X/twitter banner (Image Credit: X) With ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, a project Conneau started at OpenAI after doing similar work at Meta, he kind of did it. The AI system natively processes speech and talks ba
Dec 9, 2024
Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent
French startup Rounded believes AI voice agents are going to become the default way customers interact with companies, so instead of building AI voice agents that are ready to use, the company is building an orchestration platform that lets companies build their own voice agent. Rounded started off working on a web3 product before shifting its focus to explore AI voice agents in June 2023. “The idea was that we’d simply put ChatGPT after a transcriber and before a synthesizer, and it would be v
Jan 9, 2025