A German startup aims to address the persistent challenge of poor audio quality in digital communications through an innovative technical approach leveraging generative artificial intelligence to enhance voice clarity in video recordings. Emerging from stealth with €1.9 million in funding, AI-coustics, led by co-founder and CEO Fabian Seipel, seeks to revolutionize digital interactions by ensuring clarity akin to professional studio broadcasts across various platforms and devices.
Seipel, alongside co-founder Corvin Jaedicke, established AI-coustics in 2021, driven by a personal mission to overcome the pervasive issue of inadequate audio quality in online courses and tutorials. Leveraging their backgrounds in audio engineering and machine learning, the duo developed a unique approach to simulating and addressing audio artifacts and challenges during the artificial intelligence training process.
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The startup’s technology involves training models on speech samples recorded in its Berlin-based studio, adding diverse voices to the dataset to minimize biases and ensure inclusivity. While AI-coustics faces competition in the AI-powered noise-suppression space, its distinct methodology sets it apart, focusing on real-time and post-processing speech enhancement for a wide range of applications.
AI-coustics envisions its technology being integrated into devices like smartphones and headphones, offering automatic voice clarity enhancement. Currently offering a web app, API, and SDK for audio and video post-processing, the company plans to expand its team and refine its speech-enhancing model in the coming months.
Despite concerns about job displacement, Seipel emphasizes AI-coustics’ potential to streamline audio production processes, saving time and resources for content creators and broadcasters while maintaining high speech quality. The startup’s recent funding round, comprising equity and debt, signifies a significant milestone in its journey to transform the digital audio landscape. Backed by strong investor support and guided by a clear vision, AI-coustics stands ready to take significant steps toward revolutionizing digital communication by enhancing audio clarity.
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