Integrate real-time text-to-speech with Sonic-3.6, Cartesia's streaming TTS API. Generate natural, expressive voices with laughter in 40+ languages — built for AI agents and interactive apps.
Total raised: $91M
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | 515 Ventur... | 515venture... |
| 10.07.2026 | Index Vent... | indexventu... |
| 08.11.2025 | avra | avracap.co... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 14.03.2025 | Series A | $64M | - |
| 13.12.2024 | - | $27M | - |
Mentions in press and media 22
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.09.2026 | Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, with real-time diarization for 20+ speakers: a steal for enterprises? | Meta is entering the increasingly competitive real-time speech-to-text market with Muse Voice Transcribe, a new audio perception model that combines streaming transcription, endpoint detection and speaker diarization for more than 20 speake... |
| 31.07.2026 | Palabra.ai Takes #1 Spot for Speed in New Text-to-Speech (TTS) Benchmark | Palabra ranks #1 for latency on Coval's independent, open-source text-to-speech benchmark, posting 104 milliseconds — roughly twice as fast as the nearest competitor — with a 6% word error rate. Coval's independent benchmark puts Palabra's ... |
| 10.07.2026 | Five MENA-based AI startups graduate from Propeller’s first Kernel Camp | Propeller, the venture capital firm focused on AI technology and infrastructure, announced the successful conclusion of Kernel Camp, its inaugural deep-tech residency programme based in Silicon Valley. Five startups from Tunisia, Morocco, J... |
| 07.07.2026 | Speechify's Simba 3.2 Ranks #1 on Independent Artificial Analysis TTS Leaderboard: World's Best Real-Time Voice Model, Above ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google DeepMind & Others | Simba 3.2, the flagship streaming text-to-speech model from Speechify's developer platform, is ranked first on the independent Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard, above flagship models from ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind... |
| 25.06.2026 | Valence AI Raises $5 Million And Secures U.S. Patents For Real-Time Emotional Detection From Live Speech | Valence AI announced $5 million in total funding and the issuance of two U.S. patents covering the company’s proprietary audio signal processing pipeline for real-time emotional detection from live speech. The funding includes a seed round ... |
| 18.05.2026 | Speechify SIMBA 3.0 Breaks Into the Global Top 10 on the Artificial Analysis TTS Leaderboard, Outranking Google, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs | Speechify SIMBA 3.0 Breaks Into the Global Top 10 on the Artificial Analysis TTS Leaderboard, Outranking Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs at a Fraction of the Cost SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Speechify... |
| 31.03.2026 | AI video generation startup Runway rolls out $10 million VC fund: Report | Synopsis The VC fund will back early-stage startups. The New York-based companyâs Builders Programme will support startups from seed to Series C stages across AI, media, and world simulation. Participants will receive free API credits. Ar... |
| 19.02.2026 | Speechify’s AI Voice Research Lab Launches SIMBA 3.0 Voice Model to Power Next Generation of Voice AI | announced the early rollout of SIMBA 3.0, its latest proprietary voice AI model developed by the Speechify AI Research Lab, designed to power production-grade text-to-speech, speech recognition, and real-time speech-to-speech applications. ... |
| 23.05.2025 | Forethought: $25 Million Series D Raised To Advance Agentic AI For Customer Experiences | Forethought, a leader in agentic AI for customer experience, announced it had introduced the industry’s first multi-agent and omnichannel AI for customer experience. For driving the growth of its agentic CX system, the company secured a $25... |
| 13.05.2025 | AI power rankings upended: OpenAI, Google rise as Anthropic falls, Poe report finds | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Poe‘s latest usage report shows OpenAI and Google strengthening their positions in key AI categories while Anthro... |
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