Top Audio Startups in 2027

Hey, we’re Deepgram! We’re an AI speech platform whose mission is to make every voice heard and understood. Our end-to-end deep neural network is revolutionizing the speech-to-text market and taking on the big guys. We’re redefining what companies can do with voice by offering a platform with AI architectural advantage, not legacy tech retrofitted with AI. Deepgram delivers highly accurate, actually usable transcription, right out of the box – or you can train a model for even greater accuracy on the unique words that matter to you. ✅ Live-stream or pre-recorded ✅ On-prem or in the cloud ✅ Scalable and affordable ✅ Dozens of languages and use case models ✅ Features like diarization, summarization, language/topic detection, and more. We’ve raised over $86 million and have been recognized as an Inc. Best Workplace (2021 and 2022), a Forbes Top 50 AI Company to Watch (2021), and a CB Insights Top 100 AI Startup (2021), among others. Come join our revolution to unlock the power of voice technology for everyone. We want to hear what you’ve got to say! An NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company

Descript is building the next generation platform for creative tools, making audio and video creation as fast, accessible, and collaborative as Google Docs. We are a team of 40 - predominantly engineers, product designers, and AI researchers - with a proven C.E.O. and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Redpoint Ventures). Descript HQ is in San Francisco, and our A.I. research team, Lyrebird, is based in Montreal.

Our product allows to automatically convert speech from one language to another, while preserving original voice and emotions. Currently we work primarily with content creators, to automatically publish their videos in other languages. While the technology improves, we plan to expand our use-cases to: 1) movie industry, eg Netflix, such that every movie is available in every language; 2) real-time speech translation eg. in metaverse, call centers, phone calls

Volley builds the best voice-controlled games and entertainment experiences for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, smartphones, and Fire TVs. Popular Volley voice games include Song Quiz, Jeopardy!, and The Price Is Right. Our voice apps are used by millions of people every month. We believe voice control will become the main way people access entertainment in their bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, and cars, and our goal is to become the "Netflix of Voice" for this emerging category of devices. Volley was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2016. We're a 60+ person hybrid remote/in-person company, headquartered in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. While we work to make home entertainment more accessible and engaging, we like to have fun along the way, with team lunches, Friday happy hours, and very active #food and #pets slack channels. If any of this sounds fun to you (we promise it is), come join us! Read more about Volley's culture and mission here: volleythat.com/post/volley-mission-culture-and-what-we-create

Pindrop® Protect provides a risk score and call intelligence to the call center in the first few seconds of each call. The risk score — along with the analysis of the caller’s voice, device, and behavior — is provided to the call center’s fraud analyst team for further investigation. Pindrop’s proprietary machine learning algorithms then use feedback from the investigation to maximize solution performance. Pindrop® Passport evaluates call center interactions in real-time to passively authenticate legitimate customers. Passport runs in the background of every call, combining patented Phoneprinting™ technology with proprietary Deep Voice™ biometrics to determine if a caller has the right device, voice, and behavior to access an account. Whether callers use voice or touch-tone interactions within the IVR — or opt to speak to an agent — Pindrop credentials follow customers across the lifecycle of each call.

We are making capturing, summarizing and retrieval of information from any source that you consume trivial. Till date, we have made solved capturing and summarizing audio information from any source(Zoom, Google meet, Youtube, Coursera, anything that has audio) easy. It helps our customers focus more on the video, meetings and podcasts they listen to. They can capture notes in 1-click without having to type and can multitask. Our ideal customers are the ones who consume a lot of audio (watching videos and attending meetings) like creators and knowledge workers.

After 10 years in the audio-tech space, Voicemod has become the leading creator in real-time voice changing and soundboard technology. Our mission is to enable everyone to express themselves through sound. That’s why we’ve built expressive and immersive audio tools, making it easy to create unique sonic identities and enable interactions with personalized sounds.

Hey there! We’re Morning Brew, a media company committed to helping you, the business leader of tomorrow, become smarter in minutes. We started with a single daily email newsletter and now produce a portfolio of podcasts, videos, events, and newsletters (naturally!) that we pinky-promise will inform and entertain you. We’re headquartered in New York City but our talented employees (around 290 as of summer 2022) are based all over North America, including Chicago, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Phoenix, Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle.

Voices.com is the online marketplace where brands and voice talent connect. Fortune 500s, small business, advertising agencies, casting directors and talent agencies rely on Voices.com to easily search for and hire professional voice over talents by using our patent-pending SurePay™ payment service and award-winning web app. Voices.com is the Fastest, Easiest Way to Hire Talent • Post your job free • Get responses in less than an hour. • Make payments securely with SurePay escrow.