OmniSpeech
Company

Last deal

Amount

Seed

Stage

07.03.2017

Date

3

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$1.1M

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About Company
OmniSpeech is a software technology company that enhances voice communication in speech-enabled applications and mobile devices.

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founded date

01.01.2009

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For Profit

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Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

The company develops AI software for noise suppression and cancellation, improving voice quality in various applications such as automotive, consumer electronics, gaming, and video conferencing. OmniSpeech's technology is based on decades of research into human speech physiology and provides superior voice quality and intelligibility through its groundbreaking speech extraction technology, OmniClear. The company has received several technology and entrepreneurship awards and is a graduate of the VentureAccelerator program at the University of Maryland.
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Their latest funding was raised on 07.03.2017. Their latest investor National Science Foundation. Their latest round Seed

Date 
Funding Round 
Investors 
Money Raised 
Lead 
07.03.2017
1
01.02.2015
1
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Founders
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Carol Espy-Wilson
Carol Espy-Wilson

Carol Espy-Wilson

Dr. Espy-Wilson founded OmniSpeech in November 2009 with assistance from the Venture Accelerator Program at the University of Maryland. Dr. Espy-Wilson is also Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Speech Communication Lab, and a member of the Institute for Systems Research at UMD. A world-renowned engineer, Dr. Espy-Wilson conducts pioneering research integrating engineering, linguistics, and speech science. The idea for OmniSpeech originated from decades of research into the physiology of human speech. Dr. Espy-Wilson is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and a Senior Member of IEEE. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, an elected member of the Speech and Language Technical Committee of IEEE, and a member of the National Advisory Board for Medical Rehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She served as Chair of the Speech Technical Committee of the ASA from 2007 to 2010, as an associate editor of the ASA's magazine, Acoustics Today, and as an appointed member of the Language and Communication Study Section at NIH, 2001-2004.

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OmniSpeech
OmniSpeech

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Carol Espy-Wilson

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Carol Espy-Wilson

Carol Espy-Wilson

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Lily Bengfort

Lily Bengfort

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