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We’ve ranked the top 26 Speech Recognition companies in San Francisco, California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Speech Recognition Companies & Startups (San Francisco, California)
Ava
Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Founder(s): Pieter Doevendans, Skinner Cheng, Thibault Duchemin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Communication Hardware, Health Care, Mobile Apps, Speech Recognition
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Gridspace
Gridspace scans and automates voice calls for contact centers and developers.
Founder(s): Anthony Scodary, Evan Macmillan, Nico Benitez
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Call Center, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Software, Speech Recognition, Telecommunications
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Speak
Speak helps you get better at speaking english.
Founder(s): Connor Zwick
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning, Speech Recognition
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Stafory (Robot Vera)
Stafory is a service to simplify the process of recruiting. Stafory has created Robot Vera.
Founder(s): Aleksander Uraksin, Alexey Kostarev, Vladimir Sveshnikov
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, Natural Language Processing, Online Portals, Professional Services, Recruiting, Robotics, Speech Recognition
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Deepgram
Deepgram is an AI Speech Platform that provides developers with a simple to use Speech-to-Text API
Founder(s): Noah Shutty, Scott Stephenson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Developer APIs, Speech Recognition
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Observe.AI
Observe.AI is an Intelligent Workforce Platform that helps teams improve CX and agent performance.
Founder(s): Akash Singh, Sharath Keshava Narayana, Swapnil Jain
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Call Center, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, SaaS, Software, Speech Recognition
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Rev.com
Rev’s speech-to-text services are powered by artificial intelligence and perfected by a community of skilled freelancers.
Founder(s): Dan Kokotov, David Abrameto, Jason Chicola, Josh Breinlinger, Mark Chen, Paul Huck
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Developer APIs, Mobile Apps, Software, Speech Recognition
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VCV
VCV is an AI-powered robot recruiter.
Founder(s): Arik Akverdian
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Human Resources, Machine Learning, Recruiting, Speech Recognition
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Notiv
Notiv is the intelligent meeting assistant that turns all your important voice conversations into clever business outcomes.
Founder(s): Becci Reid, Chris Raethke, Dr Iain McCowan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Intelligent Systems, Meeting Software, Productivity Tools, Software, Speech Recognition
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Ambit
Ambit Analytics is internet company helps leaders build collaborative teams through insights on how they talk and listen
Founder(s): Arjun Sundararajan, Greg Lok
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Education, Internet, Software, Speech Recognition, Training
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Volley
Volley builds voice-controlled entertainment experiences for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and smartphones.
Founder(s): James Wilsterman, Max Child
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Casual Games, Consumer Software, Digital Entertainment, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment, Podcast, Software, Speech Recognition, Virtual Assistant
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Voicery
Voicery synthesizes the most realistic human voices using deep neural networks.
Founder(s): Bobby Ullman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Neuroscience, Speech Recognition
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Koemei
Koemei is a 500Startups backed company that builds video search-as-a-service for website and apps, accessible through API and embed codes.
Founder(s): Evgeny Bogdanov, Linda Drabik, Temitope Ola
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Internet, Machine Learning, SaaS, Search Engine, Speech Recognition, Video
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation is an organization supporting public interest journalism.
Founder(s): Daniel Ellsberg, John Perry Barlow, Rainey Reitman, Trevor Timm
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Digital Entertainment, Finance, Speech Recognition
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Sonix (sonix.ai)
Sonix is a company that produces AI-based speech recognition software.
Founder(s): David Nguyen, Jamie Sutherland, Stephen Hopkins
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software, Speech Recognition
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Humanoid
Humanoid is a software company providing solutions for computer programmers to utilize human intelligence in software applications.
Founder(s): Matt Mireles, Matt Swanson, Tyler Kieft
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Developer APIs, SEO, Social Media, Software, Speech Recognition, Video, Video Streaming, Web Development
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Scribie
Scribe, an AI powered online transcription service which provides 99% + accurate transcripts with speed.
Founder(s): Rajiv Poddar, Sanjiv Jha, Sanjiv Jha
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Machine Learning, Media and Entertainment, Natural Language Processing, Online Portals, Speech Recognition
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LexiconAI
Voice-operated, intelligent assistant for professionals
Founder(s): Ian Plosker, Matthew Rubashkin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Speech Recognition
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Soniox
The Most Advanced AI for Understanding Speech in Real-World Environments
Founder(s): Klemen Simonic
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Human Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition
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Interactive Media
Interactive Media deliver an effective conversational experience through virtual agents with customers.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Speech Recognition
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Vocal Point
Vocal Point mission is to provide the most effective voice solutions for delivering web content and commerce.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Speech Recognition, VoIP
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AffectSense
AffectSense develops a platform that understands emotions of users.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Facial Recognition, Image Recognition, Intelligent Systems, Speech Recognition
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Atexto
Atexto is the voice data solution the world needs to get rid of keyboards and adopt voice interfaces.
Founder(s): Brenda Mana Pastrian, Esteban Gorupicz
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biometrics, Call Center, Cloud Data Services, Crowdsourcing, Data Integration, Data Visualization, Developer Platform, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition
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R7 Speech Sciences
R7 Speech Sciences is an AI company focused on understanding spoken conversations.
Founder(s): Brian McMahan, Delip Rao
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition
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Hive
Hive provides cloud-based AI solutions that help companies unlock the “next wave” of enterprise automation use cases
Founder(s): Dmitriy Karpman, Kevin Guo
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Software, Speech Recognition
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AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI is an AI company building a platform of APIs to transcribe and understand audio data.
Founder(s): Dylan Fox
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Developer APIs, Information Technology, Speech Recognition
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