Deepslate, a Berlin-based voice AI laboratory, has raised €7.7 million in seed funding with 42CAP from Munich leading the round. Alstin Capital, SIVentures, and several business angels also participated in the funding. The company has developed its own speech-to-speech model that operates on servers in Germany, achieving a response time of 0.44 seconds. Deepslate currently has 17 employees and focuses on direct speech-to-speech generation without intermediate text translation steps.
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Deepslate
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Germany
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Deepslate is a Berlin-based voice AI laboratory that has developed a speech-to-speech model using projection models, enabling direct audio processing without text translation. The company runs its models on servers in Germany through Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure, offering sovereignty and data privacy for regulated industries. With 17 employees, Deepslate achieves a response time of 0.44 seconds and operates with ISO 27001 certification. The startup's innovative approach preserves voice sentiment, prosody, and timbre by processing speech directly rather than using traditional three-stage pipelines.
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GermanyArtificial IntelligenceAudioMachine Learning