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

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

DEI tech reimagines workplace equity and attracts investors amid mounting calls for change

DEI tech reimagines workplace equity and attracts investors amid mounting calls for change

Thousands of people take part in a Black Lives Matter protest march in Seattle in June. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) When Kim Vu joined fintech startup Remitly two years ago as the director of diversity and inclusion, she spent hours doing numbers manually and gaining insights into the teams that are spread across eight … Read more