Artificial Intelligence: This Berlin company is building cheaper and faster models than OpenAI
Deepslate is developing its own AI models that generate voices in real-time, competing with OpenAI and Elevenlabs. The start-up has now raised millions for its approach.
Artificial intelligence firms are facing criticism for their language assistants that often misunderstand concerns, respond slowly, or follow rigid dialogues. Telephone interactions demand speed, with seconds making the difference. Nevertheless, the market for AI-generated voices, or Voice-AI, is expanding rapidly as investors worldwide bet on making it easier for humans to express thoughts verbally instead of first typing them and then inputting them into a chat window.
However, creating AI systems that process spoken language is more challenging: Speech-to-Speech models must comprehend language, generate a response, and convert it back into speech – all without causing noticeable delays. This is precisely the problem Deepslate, a Berlin-based startup, aims to solve. The company's founders, Paskal Paesler and Jan Brachthäuser, are challenging financial giants like OpenAI and Eleven Labs by developing models capable of processing spoken language in real-time and outputting it as speech.
Deepslate's unique training approach sets it apart from the competition. Since the beginning of the year, venture capitalists worldwide have invested over $20 billion in companies developing solutions for AI-generated speech.
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