Owners
AMAI - founded American startup by Russian entrepreneurs Pavel Osokin and Maxim Baluev in 2019. AMAI has developed a technology based on a artificial intelligence human voice, which, according to the developers, is indistinguishable from the present and exactly repeats all the nuances, up to emotions.
Our decision can do the work of a translator, voice actor, reader, call center employee, in any of the common world languages so that people in 90% of cases will not be able to understand where the voice generated by the algorithm is and where the living person is, says AMAI founder Pavel Osokin. |
History
2021: Attracting $600,000 investment
The NRG Ventures fund of ex-top manager of Fort Ross Ventures Roman Tyan and former vice president of the Mail.ru Group Andrei Taburinsky, as well as a venture investor, founder of the business angel club AngelsDesk Sergey Dashkov invested in AMAI. The total amount of investments received by the California developer of artificial voice technologies amounted to $600 thousand, the press service of the fund reports.
AMAI intends to spend the product refinement, including the purchase of rights to use new voices, an increase in server capacities used by the neural network.
The company intends to become the largest player in the text to speech technology market in the audiobook segment. By the end of July 2021, AMAI was working with several major digital publishers, including the largest audiobook publisher in Europe. The company also agrees on a partnership with audiobook market leaders in the USA and Latin America. The startup is going to provide support for 10 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian and others, as well as add functionality that allows one voice to synthesize a phrase in any of the supported languages.
AMAI partners include Storytel audio book platform, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services (by July 2021).