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AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding – TechCrunch

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AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding – TechCrunch

Voice skins have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants to personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, but also boring and robotic speaking voices that you get from services like Alexa. Now, a startup developing voice skins for various companies to use in their services, as well as third parties … Read more

WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech – TechCrunch

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WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech – TechCrunch

WellSaid Labs, whose tools produce synthetic speech that could be mistaken for reality, raised $ 10 million for the Series A to help grow the business. The company’s homemade text-to-speech engine works faster than real-time, producing natural-sounding clips of pretty much any length, from quick snippets to hour-long readings. WellSaid emerged from the Allen Institute … Read more