The Russian startup of Speakus develops the cloud platform of synchronous translation of the same name for actions.
The cloud service of Speakus simplifies the organization of oral translation of multilingual conferences, performances and business negotiations. The technology works by means of standard Internet connection without installation of the expensive equipment. To listen to broadcasting on a mother tongue, users need to install only mobile application on the smartphone and to enter number of a conference, or to scan the QR code. According to developers, the platform provides high quality of a sound and work of professional translators from any place in the world. The Speakus application is available to free downloading in app stores for the Android Speakus platforms[1] and iOS Speakus[2].
History
2018: Participation in the acceleration StartUP Kazakhstan program
The platform of synchronous translation for actions of Speakus underwent selection in the international acceleration StartUP Kazakhstan program in January, 2018. The company will receive investments in the amount of $30 thousand and will fight for a possibility of passing of acceleration in Silicon Valley, the USA.
The accelerator will pass from February 1 to April 19, 2018. Participants will study in the innovation cluster of Almaty where they will be told about business in Kazakhstan and will acquaint with potential investors. The program will come to the end with an action of Demo Day on which an opportunity to address investors with the presentation of the project will be provided to projects. The best local and foreign projects will receive investments to $100 thousand. Also support of an output of the project to ICO in favorable jurisdiction for cryptoeconomy is provided.
In Kazakhstan Speakus is going to develop the service which will allow participants of the event-market to reduce time and expenses on the organization of synchronous translation of actions. Less than in the Russian market the company supported as the technical partner for such platforms a year of work as: Synergy Global Forum, Skolkovo, IIDF, TEDx SadovoeRing, Vedomosti, Digital October, Lotte Hotel.
We systematically approached the next stage of development — to an exit to international markets. Negotiations with representatives an event industry in the European countries and the CIS countries which designated the need for our technology were an incitement. Since September we are also the Irish company and the participant of Enterprise Ireland, public foundation of Ireland — Ruslan Musin, the director for marketing and business development of Speakus told. — Our solution can be used worldwide and facilitate life to owners and producers of actions, the agencies, bureau of transfer, corporate clients and normal citizens who need fast transfer of language during negotiations. |