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Speechly (YC W22) — Natural language understanding API for speech that runs on device

Speechly makes it cost efficient to understand human conversations, in real-time. We do this by enabling high-accuracy spoken language understanding processed right on the end user’s device.

Speechly is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Natural Language Understanding API for Speech that runs on device. The founders listed are Otto Soderlund (Founder), Hannes Heikinheimo (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 5, 2022).

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Speechly

New accelerator entry · 2022-01-05 · the record

Winter 2022
batch
10
people
Early
stage
Finland
region
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BatchWinter 2022
Announced2022-01-05
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size10
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Speech Recognition
RegionsFinland, Europe, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedHelsinki, Finland
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.speechly.com/

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Speechly makes it cost efficient to understand human conversations, in real-time. We do this by enabling high-accuracy spoken language understanding processed right on the end user’s device. Hundreds of millions of hours of audio data are generated every single day online. Speechly is the first solution that can affordably turn this audio into actionable insights.

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