69 Best Speech Recognition Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Speech Recognition Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 128 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $74.0m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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PolyAI logo

PolyAI

PolyAI is a company building an enterprise conversational platform with AI-generated voice assistants to improve customer experience.

4

Funding Rounds

$68.4m

Money raised

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Unbabel

Unbabel is a company providing a translation as a service platform that allows enterprises to understand and be understood by their customers. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

7

Funding Rounds

$91.2m

Money raised

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Soapbox Labs

Speech recognition software that provides voice-enabled experiences for kids of all ages, accents, and dialects while prioritizing privacy.

5

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

Descript logo

Descript

A company offering an audio word processing platform that enables editor and producers to edit sound files while a writer would edit its lyrics.

4

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Suki logo

Suki

Suki is a Redwood City, California-based technology company developing AI-powered administrative tools for the healthcare industry.

4

Funding Rounds

$160.0m

Money raised

Invoca logo

Invoca

An artificial intelligence company offering a call tracking and conversational analytics for marketers.

7

Funding Rounds

$169.8m

Money raised

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Symbl.ai

Symbl is an API platform for businesses looking to deploy conversational intelligence.

6

Funding Rounds

$23.7m

Money raised

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Univerbal

Univerbal provides a language-learning app with a chatbot AI that simulates the experience of conversing with a foreign speaker.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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Observe.AI

Observe.AI is the creator of an AI platform for call centers.

6

Funding Rounds

$214.0m

Money raised

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AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI is a speech AI company developing AI models capable of transcribing and understanding human speech.

5

Funding Rounds

$108.1m

Money raised

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Clarifai

A technology company utilizing artificial intelligence for image searches that can in turn be used in mobile applications. It is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2013.

4

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

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DeepL

DeepL is a company that develops technology for language translation purposes.

1

Funding Rounds

$300.0m

Money raised

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Speechly

Speechly is a Helsinki-based developer of a voice interface API for web and mobile applications.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

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Synthesia

Synthesia is an AI-powered video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Niessner and Steffen Tjerrild.

9

Funding Rounds

$582.7m

Money raised

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Cogito

Cogito is an enterprise cloud computing and software development company making software to provide AI-driven coaching to phone professionals.

9

Funding Rounds

$117.5m

Money raised

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Lokalise

Lokalise is a web-based translation system

3

Funding Rounds

$106.0m

Money raised

Vochlea Music logo

Vochlea Music

Audio technology company using artificial vocal recognition for music creation

1

Funding Rounds

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Voiceflow

A company that has created a platform where voice speakers, like Alexa or Siri, can be designed and launched without the user needing knowledge of coding. It was founded in 2018 and is located in San Francisco, California.

3

Funding Rounds

$28.2m

Money raised

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Papercup

An artificial Intelligence company with software that can translate voice tracks on videos. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2017.

4

Funding Rounds

$53.2m

Money raised

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Syllable (company)

A digital communication company that has software to allow healthcare providers interact with their patients. It is located in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 2016.

2

Funding Rounds

$68.0m

Money raised

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DefinedAI

DefinedAI is an AI training data marketplace to buy, sell, or commission AI training data, tools, and models.

5

Funding Rounds

$64.7m

Money raised

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Novel Effect

U.S-based company developing interactive mobile application for children book readings.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Orai (company)

Orai is an company that utilizes artificial intelligence to coach people into becoming more effective and confident communicators

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Ava (Software Company)

Ava is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 by Thibault Duchemin.

6

Funding Rounds

$32.5m

Money raised

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Lyrebird (company)

Lyrebird is a Montreal-based company founded by Alexandre de Brébisson, Kundan Kumar and Jose Sotelo. It was acquired by Descript in September 2019.

1

Funding Rounds

$120.0k

Money raised

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Avoma, Inc.

Avoma is an AI meeting assistant, collaboration, and intelligence platform for sales, implementation, and customer success teams.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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Verbit

Verbit uses smart AI technology to disrupt captioning and transcription with speed and automation.

13

Funding Rounds

$818.0m

Money raised

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MURF.AI

Murf.AI hosts an artifical intelligence-based text-to-speech platform for use in the creation of humanlike voiceovers.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.5m

Money raised

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Gridspace

A company that creates voice software and speech processing system to clarify and elevate business communication.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.3m

Money raised

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ecobee (company)

ecobee is a Toronto-based developer of WiFi enabled thermostats for residential and commercial applications.

6

Funding Rounds

$112.6m

Money raised

Notable Health logo

Notable Health

Notable Health is an artificial intelligence-powered health start up in California that focuses on automating and digitizing physician-patient interactions.

5

Funding Rounds

$132.7m

Money raised

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ELSA (company)

ELSA is an artificial intelligence assisted language learning platform for pronunciation training and accent reduction.

4

Funding Rounds

$29.7m

Money raised

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DeepGram

Deepgram is an AI Speech Platform that provides developers with a simple to use Speech-to-Text API

8

Funding Rounds

$68.9m

Money raised

Ello logo

Ello

Ello is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence and educational technology company developing an AI reading coach designed to help children learn how to read in a personalized manner.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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Sense (energy company)

Sense is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based developer and distributor of energy tracking and automation solutions. Sense specializes in tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers.

5

Funding Rounds

$162.0m

Money raised

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Ivee

Ivee is a company founded by Jonathon Nostrant, Ben Silver and Jim Cortez.

4

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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Josh.ai

Josh.ai is a company developing automated systems for households.

1

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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Snips

Snips is a voice platform that uses artificial intelligence founded in 2013 by Rand Hindi.

4

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Inbenta

Artificial intelligence company providing AI-powered chatbots and semantic search to boost self-service and e-commerce conversions.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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Chorus.ai

Chorus.ai is a developer of artificially intelligent conversation cloud platform for sales team that turn conversations into data and offer analytics of that data.

4

Funding Rounds

$100.3m

Money raised

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Unisound

Unisound, or Beijing Yunzhisheng Information Technology, is a company developing intelligent voice and speech processing technologies.

8

Funding Rounds

$299.0m

Money raised

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Pillo Health

A company offering a voice first care management platform that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2014 by Dr. Aiden Feng, Emanuele Musini, and James Wyman.

4

Funding Rounds

$18.9m

Money raised

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Sensely

Sensely is a San Francisco-based company offering an avatar and chatbot-based platform to assist insurance for insurance providers and plan members.

2

Funding Rounds

$23.0m

Money raised

AMAI logo

AMAI

AMAI develops ultra-realistic text-to-speech engine

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

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Voicemod

The leader in immersive and expressive audio technologies that help you be heard the way you want to be heard.

10

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

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Smartling

Smartling is a company founded in 2009 by Jack Welde.

5

Funding Rounds

$223.1m

Money raised

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Speechmatics

Software offering autonomous speech and voice recognition for live and recorded media.

4

Funding Rounds

$140.3m

Money raised

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Corti

Corti is an artificial Neural Networks company founded in 2016 by Anders Friis.

3

Funding Rounds

$114.0m

Money raised

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Yseop

Yseop is a Dallas-based artificial intelligence company offering artificial intelligence-based content generation around business reporting.

3

Funding Rounds

$12.9m

Money raised

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AmberScript

Amberscript is building SaaS solutions that enable users to automatically transform audio and video into text and subtitles using speech recognition.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Voiceitt

Voiceitt is a company founded in 2012 by Danny Weissberg, Sara Smolley and Stas Tiomkin.

3

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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Balto

Balto is a real-time guidance platform that increases conversions and decreases ramp time for contact centers.

6

Funding Rounds

$51.9m

Money raised

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Maluuba

Maluuba is a Waterloo, Ontario-based company founded in 2011 by Sam Pasupalak, Joshua Pantony and Zhiyuan Wu.

4

Funding Rounds

$10.2m

Money raised

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1Kosmos

1Kosmos provide Digital Identity and Passwordless Authentication for workforce and customers. Powered by advanced biometrics and blockchain technology.

4

Funding Rounds

$46.5m

Money raised

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ObEN

ObEN is a Pasadena, California-based artificial intelligence company.

8

Funding Rounds

$30.2m

Money raised

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Rev (company)

Rev is a company founded in 2010 by Josh Breinlinger, Jason Chicola, David Abrameto, Dan Kokotov, Mark Chen and Paul Huck.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

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Blue Canoe

Blue Canoe is an educational technology company.

3

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

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Respeecher

Respeecher is a Kiev-based artificial intelligence company developing deep learning for speech processing for voice cloning for content creators.

4

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

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Spitch

Platform delivering AI solutions for business communication needs.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

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Winterlight Labs

A company making voice recognition products capable of detecting cognitive decline and cognitive impairment based on samples of speech.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.2m

Money raised

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fireflies.ai

fireflies.ai is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Krishna Ramineni, Sam Udotong and Krish Ramineni.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

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Linktree

Linktree is a company founded by Alex Zaccaria.

3

Funding Rounds

$165.7m

Money raised

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OTO Systems, Inc.

Oto is a Zürich, Switzerland-based artificial intelligence company building conversational tech solutions.

4

Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

Podcastle logo

Podcastle

Podcastle converts news and articles to podcasts.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.8m

Money raised

Sopris Health logo

Sopris Health

Sopris Health is a Denver-based company founded in 2017 by Patrick Leonard.

6

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

Ambit Analytics logo

Ambit Analytics

Artificial Intelligence company

1

Funding Rounds

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Aurora Spectral Technologies

A company providing optical microscopy and micro-spectroscopy imaging system technology

3

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

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CardioCube

CardioCube is a company founded in 2018 by Oskar Kiwic, Tom Jadczyk and Przemysław Magaczewski.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

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CallMiner

CallMiner is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2002.

3

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised