Palabra AI, founded by Artem Kukharenko and Alexander Kabakov, focuses on developing an AI-powered speech translation engine. The startup is tackling the complexities of real-time language switching in speech translation, which remains a challenging problem even as text translation technologies improve. Alexis Ohanian of Seven Seven Six emphasizes the importance of Palabra's team expertise and product execution in their investment decision. The investment of $8.4 million in the pre-seed round aims to enhance Palabra's capabilities in delivering high-quality and responsive language translation.
AI can generate content and translate text. But [Speech] Translation is a unique problem because it requires real-time language switching, and the voice also needs to sound human.
With Palabra, the translation layer works very smoothly. The company has a strong AI research team that does high-quality work around speech. Plus, the startup has made great choices in product design and quality of output.
Many other companies have tried to solve the translation problem. But when they combined different pieces of tech, including speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs while translating, the latency number increased, and the translation didn't feel real-time. With Palabra, we have been able to address these issues.
Palabra AI could be an answer to that problem, which is highlighted by the substantial investment in the pre-seed round led by Seven Seven Six.
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