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We’ve ranked the top 77 Speech Recognition companies in California, United States. 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 (California, United States)
SoundHound
SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Founder(s): James Hom, Keyvan Mohajer, Majid Emami
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Machine Learning, Mobile, Natural Language Processing, Software, Speech Recognition
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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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Personal AI
Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Founder(s): Kristie Kaiser, Marc Ettlinger, Sharon Zhang, Suman Kanuganti
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Human Computer Interaction, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, 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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Behavioral Signals
Behavioral Signals develops technology to analyze human behavior from voice data.
Founder(s): Alexandros Potamianos, Prem Natarajan, Shri Narayanan
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Virtual Assistant
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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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Instreamatic
Voice Marketing Platform
Founder(s): Michael Ilyichev, Mikhail Ilyichev, Simon Dunlop, Stas Tushinskiy, Victor Frumkin
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Audio, Consumer Research, Customer Service, Digital Marketing, Speech Recognition
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Alan AI
The Developer Platform for In-App Voice Assistants
Founder(s): Andrey Ryabov, Blake Wheale, Gaurav Kuchhal, Ramu Sunkara
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Virtual Assistant
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Dialogflow
Dialogflow is a conversational UX platform enabling brand unique, natural language interactions for devices, applications, and services.
Founder(s): Artem Goncharuk, Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Pavel Sirotin
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Machine Learning, Market Research, Natural Language Processing, 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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Kanari AI
Pioneering Dialectal Speech Technology
Founder(s): Ahmed Ali, Giri Nagaraja, Ryan Carmichael
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition
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DeepAffects
The new standard for speech analysis
Founder(s): Prashant Kukde, Sushant Hiray
Location: Milpitas, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Information Technology, Software, Speech Recognition
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ObEN
ObEN is an AI company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars.
Founder(s): Adam Zheng, Nikhil Jain
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Big Data, Blockchain, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, Virtual Reality
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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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Ask Ziggy
Ask Ziggy is a natural speech search engine that uses voice recognition technology for mobile devices.
Founder(s): Shai Leib
Location: Rocklin, California, United States
Industries: Android, Artificial Intelligence, iOS, Mobile, Natural Language Processing, Neuroscience, Search Engine, Speech Recognition
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ORBAI
Developing Artificial General Intelligence
Founder(s): Brent Oster
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Human Computer Interaction, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, Robotics, Speech Recognition
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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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Nuronics Corp
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Company – Speech, Text and Vision (ASR, NLP, OCR, Meanings), SaaS
Founder(s): Viplav Valluri
Location: Milpitas, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Search, Speech Recognition, Text Analytics
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Quirk.ai
Quirk develops creative enterprise bots to have natural discussion utilizing NLP, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and A.I. techniques.
Founder(s): Raj Kondapalli, Thomas Van Swearingen
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition
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aiXplain
Enabling Product Owners to Achieve Their Goals Using World-Class AI/ML
Founder(s): Hassan Sawaf
Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Call Center, Consulting, Information Services, Machine Learning, Media and Entertainment, Natural Language Processing, Software, Speech Recognition
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Wordly
Wordly provides professional interpretation without human interference.
Founder(s): Lakshman Rathnam
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mobile, Natural Language Processing, Software, Speech Recognition
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SmartAction
SmartAction helps companies improve their customer experience and cut costs by delivering artificial intelligence powered self service.
Founder(s): Peter Voss
Location: El Segundo, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Call Center, Customer Service, Information Technology, Messaging, Speech Recognition, Virtual Assistant
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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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Mindori
Mindori is the accurate way to search your app by voice for e-commerce companies.
Founder(s): Awni Hannun, Chris Lengerich
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Apps, E-Commerce, 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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Tellme
Tellme is a platform providing voice recognition and instruction technology, enabling users to access information via mobile phones.
Founder(s): Angus Davis, Mike McCue
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Information Services, News, Social Media, Software, Speech Recognition
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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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Skoruz
Skoruz Technologies is an Information Technology Company specializing in AI & Cognitive Technology Products & Solutions.
Founder(s): Arockia Jeevanandam, Saminathan Susai
Location: Newark, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Consulting, Image Recognition, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Predictive Analytics, Speech Recognition
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Capio
Capio is developing an engine for human to machine speech technologies.
Founder(s): Ian Lane, Jungsuk Kim, Tony L. Chen
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Machine Learning, Software, Speech Recognition
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KidSense
Kidsense is a revolutionary technology in children’s embedded automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Edge-AI.
Founder(s): Dhonam Pemba, Kaveh Azartash
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition
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StayLinked
StayLinked is a host-based solution for terminal emulation, terminal session management, screen reformatting, and speech recognition.
Founder(s): David Griffith
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Information Technology, Internet, Software, Speech Recognition
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TuVox
TuVox provides speech application solutions and contact center solutions for inbound and outbound calls.
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Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition
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Neospeech
NeoSpeech specialize in developing and delivering the best text to speech solutions for personal users, developers and businesses.
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Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Speech Recognition
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Keen Research
Keen Research develops SDKs and software tools for on-device speech recognition on mobile devices and custom hardware platforms.
Founder(s): Ognjen Todic
Location: Sausalito, California, United States
Industries: Android, iOS, Linux, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices, Software, Speech Recognition
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Speak To IoT
A Simple, Secure, Software Platform to Connect Smart IoT Devices to All Intelligent Voice Assistants.
Founder(s): Biren Gandhi, Karan Sheth
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation, Internet, Internet of Things, Natural Language Processing, Smart Home, Software, Speech Recognition
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Remeeting
Remeeting is cloud storage for Zoom recordings.
Founder(s): Arlo Faria, Korbinian Riedhammer
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Storage, Meeting Software, Natural Language Processing, 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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SecuriMobile
Voice Security for Mobile Devices
Founder(s): Bertrand Damiba, Fernando Guayasamin, Nadim Laiwala, Sarah Laiwala, Sunil Palacherla
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Banking, Biometrics, Security, Speech Recognition
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Brighten AI
SaaS, Voice assistant for Enterprise
Founder(s): John Burkey
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, 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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Voice Assist
Voice Assist is a hosted speech applications company enabling access to any information through any device using speech technology.
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Location: Lake Forest, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Information Technology, Messaging, Mobile, Software, Speech Recognition, Telecommunications
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Mod9 Technologies
Mod9 Technologies provides Automatic Speech Recognition at mod9.io and operates Remeeting.
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Software, Speech Recognition
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Speech Associates
SLEA provides comprehensive assessment and tailored therapy for adults and children with special needs and disabilities.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Higher Education, Speech Recognition, Therapeutics
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Voximplant
CALL PROCESSING AUTOMATION. EASY TO USE. AI-POWERED.
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Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Call Center, Enterprise Applications, Speech Recognition, Telecommunications
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FocusData
ALL IN ONE AI PLATFORM FOR HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
Founder(s): Jay Dahal
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, 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.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Speech Recognition, VoIP
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Voci
VOCI Corporation is the leading speech recognition Application Service Provider.
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Location: Campbell, California, United States
Industries: Application Performance Management, Service Industry, Speech Recognition
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in8 Mobile
in8 Mobile develops applications using recognition technologies in both the visual and audio space.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Image Recognition, iOS, Mobile, Speech Recognition
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AVIOS
AVIOS is provides a forum for promoting practical applications of advanced speech technology,.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Speech Recognition
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PBXPlus
PBXPlus is a hosted PBX and voice applications company that offers a cloud-based phone system for businesses.
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Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Information Technology, Messaging, Public Relations, Speech Recognition, Telecommunications
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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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TaDa Labs
Voice Recognition for Business Applications
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Data Visualization, Software, Speech Recognition
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TMA Associates
TMA Associates is a consulting firm that consults for companies using speech recognition, Artificial Intelligence for commercial purposes.
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Location: Tarzana, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Commercial, Consulting, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition
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One Voice Technologies
One Voice Technologies is a global voice technology company.
Founder(s): Dean Weber
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Software, Speech Recognition
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Martian Watches
Martian Watches is a brand of smartwatches marketed in the United States.
Founder(s): Dennis Kwan, Suresh Singamsetty
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Speech Recognition
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Internet Speech
Internet Speech is an audio internet technology provider that helps in accessing the internet via any phone with the user’s voice.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Internet, 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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Zephyr-TEC
Zephyr-TEC provides speech recognition software and digital workflow solutions along with installation, training and support.
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Location: Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States
Industries: Law Enforcement, Software, Speech Recognition, Technical Support, Training
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MediaZen
MediaZen specializes in providing voice-related context awareness/dialogue middleware engine and voice handler for the automotive industry.
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Location: Costa Mesa, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Electronics, Speech Recognition
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Easy Speech
Easy Speech offers board-certified Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy.
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Location: Palm Desert, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Speech Recognition
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Supreme Technology
Innovator of technology for the future
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Electronics, Enterprise Software, Software, Speech Recognition
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BetterAccent
Speech Analysis Technology company. The company specializes in bridging the gap between a user and a speech recognition systems.
Founder(s): Edward Komissarchik, PhD
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Internet of Things, Language Learning, Speech Recognition
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VerbalTek
VerbalTek is a provider of speech recognition software solutions for portable electronic devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Electronics, Information Technology, Software, Speech Recognition
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DV Therapy
DV Therapy provides feeding, accent modification, speech, social skills and occupational therapy services.
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Location: Palmdale, California, United States
Industries: Clinical Trials, Health Care, Speech Recognition, Therapeutics
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Anticipant Speech
Anticipant Speech is a company focused on the creation of advanced automated conversation and speech processing services.
Founder(s): David DeVault
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Information Services, Information Technology, 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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