Right now they can scribble down a real-time chat with less than 300 milliseconds delay né?. But lately, scrappy up-and-comers like Gladia are stealing the show with killer performance.
The buzz in town? OpenAI dropped Whisper, setting off major waves in the speech-to-text game. With transcription models creeping into everyday apps from tech giants like Apple and Google, the power of auto-transcription is gonna blow up né?. Plus batch quality mixed with real-time magic? That’s the dream baby.
Who’s backing this cool crew? XAnge is leading the charge on the funding front flanked by Illuminate Financial XTX Ventures Athletico Ventures Gaingels Mana Ventures Motier Ventures Roosh Ventures and Soma Capital.
Gladia’s got big dreams picturing a world where audio apps have a “ChatGPT moment” né?. The end goal? Whip up convo summaries from bullet points, no sweat, no third-party mumbo jumbo.
And that’s not all – they’re laser-focused on cutting the lag time for live transcriptions. And guess what? Over 600 companies, from meeting recorders to note-taking gurus like Attention, Circleback, Method Financial, Recall, Sana, and Veed.io, are all aboard the Gladia train.
With those fresh stacks of cash, Gladia’s game plan? Smash together audio smarts and mega language models into one slick API call. Cue the cavalcade of audio features from devs and API pros, like Gladia, answering the call.
. And Gladia is in it to win it against heavyweights like AssemblyAI Deepgram and Speechmatics.
Originally Gladia beefed up Whisper’s speech-to-text model tossing in some extra bells and whistles. Yours truly can vouch for their awesomeness – we’ve tested Gladia on interviews accents and all no sweat.
Gladia serves up their speech-to-text smarts as a hosted API for tech wizards to slide into their own creations. You wanna turn any audio file into text, pronto and with accuracy? BAM! Gladia’s got your back, my friend.
Sure, big shots like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google serve up their own speech-to-text APIs in the world of cloud services. What’s their deal? Well, they’re all about this speech-recognition API that’s like magic. Picture this: automatic diarization, picking out multiple speakers in a chat and neatly organizing the recordings and text.
Oh, and they’re multilingual masters, supporting 100 languages and a bunch of accents né?. So get this: Gladia a cool French startup just nailed $16 million in funding – courtesy of their Series A round
