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Readlee is an educational software company that focuses on improving reading skills. The company's software is speech-integrated, allowing teachers to personalize reading instruction by listening to students, reading any text aloud, and providing immediate feedback, allowing teachers to expand reading access and strengthen literacy for all students.

Tiktalk To Me owns and operates a digital health company intended to offer a platform for speech therapy. Its platform functions as a virtual speech therapist, guiding patients through proven and widely accepted training protocols using online games supervised by the patient's personal speech therapist and combines gaming with speech- and voice-recognition technology, enabling speech-language pathologists to shorten the treatment cycle and save substantial time and money for the patients.

Signamy is a mobile app that improves communication between Deaf and hearing people using a virtual character to learn and communicate in Sign Language.

Simply Speak develops, owns, and operates a platform that helps physicians document the telehealth encounters with patients. Its products include Simple Speak, an artificial intelligence platform. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Protecting the worlds data through Voice BioMetrics

Supportomate specializes in developing an autonomous call center agent designed to automate customer interactions over phone and text channels. By leveraging proprietary conversation learning technology, the company enables insurance carriers to streamline their sales and customer service processes, ultimately reducing operational costs. This technology utilizes existing recorded conversations to train a fully automated voice representative capable of engaging in multi-directional, open conversations, rather than being limited to pre-scripted dialogues. Supportomate's innovative approach allows enterprises to enhance efficiency and improve customer experiences within their call centers.

SortSpoke's artificial intelligence does the complex data extraction work that people do today. SortSpoke helps companies automate manual document processing. SortSpoke is a cloud service that learns how you classify your documents, what data you extract from them and then it does it for you.

Audiolex is a company focused on enhancing speech and language development in children. Recognizing that many children lack access to necessary support, Audiolex has developed the Lexicon platform. This platform equips parents, teachers, and speech-language pathologists with essential tools to identify speech and language issues in children. By offering tailored resources, the platform aims to assist in addressing these challenges effectively. Through its innovative approach, Audiolex seeks to improve communication skills critical for successful child development.

SmileML, Inc. designs and develops emotion recognition software. It offers user research software that analyzes user emotion in interview videos, transcribes speech, and allows to share insight with collaborative tools. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Voiceitt Ltd is a technology company based in Ramat Gan, Israel, founded in 2012. The company specializes in developing automatic speech recognition software aimed at enhancing communication for individuals with speech impairments and non-standard speech patterns. Voiceitt's innovative platform utilizes an AI-driven speech engine to interpret and translate distorted pronunciations into intelligible speech, thereby improving the quality of life and independence for users with motor, speech, and language disorders. Additionally, the software serves as a valuable communication tool for caregivers and family members, facilitating more effective interactions.

Reason8 is a service that turns conversations into summaries. We use multiple smartphones and AI patent pending approach to boost quality of speaker separation and drafting meeting summaries. We are actively working on advanced summarization, collaboration features for teamwork, and integrations with project management services and communication tools.

Reason8 is a service that turns conversations into summaries. We use multiple smartphones and AI patent pending approach to boost quality of speaker separation and drafting meeting summaries. We are actively working on advanced summarization, collaboration features for teamwork, and integrations with project management services and communication tools.

Orai is a company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2016, that specializes in a public speaking application utilizing artificial intelligence. The application offers users instant feedback on their speech, along with guided lessons to enhance public speaking skills. Orai serves enterprises by providing a scalable and cost-effective solution for communication and soft skill training. With over 300,000 users on its iOS and Android platforms, the app has delivered AI-driven feedback on more than 2 million recordings, helping individuals become more effective and confident communicators.

Mycroft AI, Inc. develops an open-source voice assistant platform that integrates artificial intelligence and natural language processing to allow users to control various electronic devices through voice commands. The Mycroft software operates as an extensible platform, enabling customization and adaptation for a wide range of devices, including refrigerators, computers, speakers, wearables, cars, and televisions. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with additional offices in Palo Alto, California, and Lawrence, Kansas. Mycroft's approach emphasizes an open-source and open-hardware philosophy, allowing users to modify and enhance their voice assistant experience according to their needs.

SpeakUp offers a device that helps to alleviate stuttering and to improve the control of speech flow by creating continuous rhythm felt on the person's body. The continuous rhythm induced by this device produces continuous speech, which is different than previous attempts to treat stuttering. It enables the user to maintain normal speech flow via a psycho-sensory effect delivered through continuous tactile movement on the skin. The company was founded in June 2016.

EyeFree Assistive Communication has developed EyeControl, an assistive communication device designed for ALS and other "locked-in" patients, including patients admitted into ICU departments which may be temporarily "locked-in" due to medical procedures or being connected to devices which don't enable communication. EyeControl is wearable, enabling 24/7 communication; affordable, so that any patient will have access to the device and simple to use, requiring dramatically lower training time than existing devices (as proven in a clinical trial). The device enables communication ranging from a call for help to a full conversation and it can be connected to other devices via Bluetooth. The user has the option to transmit a different language to the output speaker, allowing communication with a caregiver that may speak a different language.

Ivory is an iOS app that gives any musician, regardless of skill level, useful tools to engage with their sheet music electronically. They are using the recently updated audio recognition capabilities of the iPad to develop a lesson app that will provide curated lessons, easy access to digital sheet music, and real-time feedback as you learn to play piano. By doing this aspiring musicians can embrace their passion for music in the most convenient way possible. Ivory is a music education app which listens to you play, providing real-time analytics, targeted lessons, and gamified elements.

Prattle is a company based in St. Louis, Maryland, founded in 2014, that specializes in natural language processing and machine learning to analyze publicly available content, such as central bank and corporate communications. The firm has developed an automated investment analytics platform that collects and interprets complex language, converting it into real-time, quantitative data that measures sentiment and predicts market impact. This technology addresses the challenges faced by equity analysts, who often lack the time and resources to comprehensively analyze all pertinent market-moving information. By providing asset managers with insights into market trends and sentiments, Prattle enhances their ability to form investment strategies and make informed trading decisions. As of June 2019, Prattle operates as a subsidiary of Liquidnet Holdings, Inc.

Usound is a medtech company focused on enhancing hearing through innovative technology. It provides an alternative to traditional programmable hearing aids and audio streaming systems by developing an application that personalizes sound for users with hearing difficulties. The app calibrates the smartphone to match the user's specific hearing loss, optimizing the frequency of sounds and delivering audio quality comparable to that of digital hearing aids, which typically range from $2,000 to $5,000. Users undergo an initial test to assess their hearing levels, allowing the app to tailor the audio output effectively. Once calibrated, users can enjoy audio through Bluetooth headsets, receiving clear sound as if they were closer to the source. By combining health technology with user-friendly features, Usound aims to significantly improve the auditory experience for individuals with hearing impairments.

Earplay is a creative platform focused on publishing voice-first interactive audio experiences. It provides a cloud-based solution that enables teams to design, produce, and manage interactive audio content in real time. The platform allows creators and publishers to build and deploy voice experiences across various distribution channels, facilitating seamless updates and management. By leveraging a conversational interface, Earplay enhances user engagement and interaction, making it easier for teams to develop and manage multiple immersive audio titles on voice-enabled devices.

Usound is a medtech company focused on enhancing hearing through innovative technology. It provides an alternative to traditional programmable hearing aids and audio streaming systems by developing an application that personalizes sound for users with hearing difficulties. The app calibrates the smartphone to match the user's specific hearing loss, optimizing the frequency of sounds and delivering audio quality comparable to that of digital hearing aids, which typically range from $2,000 to $5,000. Users undergo an initial test to assess their hearing levels, allowing the app to tailor the audio output effectively. Once calibrated, users can enjoy audio through Bluetooth headsets, receiving clear sound as if they were closer to the source. By combining health technology with user-friendly features, Usound aims to significantly improve the auditory experience for individuals with hearing impairments.

Sonation apps make singing and playing music more fun and interactive. They serve students, professionals and amateurs playing music who face a problem that hasn’t been solved for centuries. Imagine playing basketball alone your whole life and never playing on a team. That’s the reality for most musicians. Instrumentalists and singers need to hear and interact with all the parts of the music they're learning. But they rarely can because it costs $50 an hour to play with one other person. We’ve developed the only solution that enables people to play with all the parts they need in an interactive, lifelike setting. Their first app, Cadenza, enables you to practice your instrument with a full orchestra (a market of 5.2 million people in the US). The orchestra listens to you and adapts to your tempo in real time, allowing you to improve your expressiveness and musicality. In the future, they will expand into singing, many styles of music, and user-generated content.

VocaliD's award-winning technology generates high-quality, natural sounding voices within hours rather than months using cutting-edge machine learning techniques, proprietary voice blending algorithms, and a crowdsourced Voicebank.

Hablando provides technological solution that helps people with speech, reading, and writing difficulties to communicate effectively.

SoundFest is a wireless earpiece that delivers hearing assistance via a smartphone. Its app embeds state-of-the-art speech detection as well as noise reduction algorithms into smartphones, tablets, and other multimedia consumer products. SoundFest was founded by Mark Eisner and David Duehren in 2011.