ai-coustics

What ai-coustics does

ai-coustics builds the audio intelligence layer for Voice AI, providing real-time, AI-powered speech enhancement solutions. Their SDK and APIs transform raw, unpredictable audio into stable, machine-ready input for Voice AI systems, running directly on-device with sub-40 ms latency. They aim to fix audio reliability, which is often the first point of failure in Voice AI systems, ensuring that voice agents perform reliably in production environments.

Products

• Quail Voice FocusPrimary speaker isolation that suppresses background voices and noise, designed for near-field use. It also improves STT accuracy in far-field, multi-speaker conditions.
• Audio InsightPredicts and diagnoses downstream Voice AI failures with a single Tyto Risk Score, available in real-time or offline.
• Quail VADRobust, standalone Voice Activity Detection for noisy Voice AI pipelines, designed to work without separate de-noising tools.
• Speech-to-Text PrimerSpeech enhancement designed to improve STT accuracy across challenging environments, reducing Word Error Rate.
• Voice IsolationSuppresses competing voices and isolates the foreground speaker for improved voice agent results, built for real-world acoustics.
• AirTenCPU-first inference runtime that needs no GPU and no ONNX, used to run model families directly inside applications.

Key capabilities

• Real-time processing (<30 ms latency)
• AI-powered speech enhancement
• SDK for integration
• On-prem SDK deployment
• 100+ languages supported
• No GPU needed
• No ONNX dependency
• Native integrations for major frameworks
• Developer Platform for testing and deployment
• CPU-first inference runtime (AirTen)
• Offline or air-gapped license options

Use cases

• Improving Speech-to-Text (STT) accuracy
• Enhancing Voice Activity Detection (VAD)
• Isolating foreground speakers in noisy environments
• Reducing false barge-ins in voice agents
• Minimizing short-utterance failures in voice agents
• Cleaner voice cloning for AI avatars
• Stabilizing speaker identity in voice cloning
• Providing studio-quality sound for creators
• Real-time agents
• Telephony
• Transcription systems
• Conversational systems

AI approach

ai-coustics builds real-time, AI-powered speech enhancement solutions. They develop an audio intelligence layer that processes raw, unpredictable audio into stable, machine-ready input for Voice AI systems. Their models focus on speech enhancement, voice activity detection, and voice isolation, designed to improve the accuracy and reliability of Voice AI in real-world conditions. They emphasize their team's deep experience in signal processing, acoustics, and applied machine learning.

Tech named: Voice AI, Audio Intelligence, Speech Enhancement, Voice Focus, Quail Voice Focus, Quail VAD, Voice Activity Detection, Voice Isolation, Speech-to-Text Primer, Audio Insight, Tyto Risk Score, AirTen (CPU-first inference runtime), SDK, APIs, ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition), VAD (Voice Activity Detection), LLM (Large Language Model), TTS (Text-to-Speech), Signal Processing, Acoustics, Applied Machine Learning

Industries served

• IT Services and IT Consulting

What it says sets it apart

• Real-time audio intelligence that makes Voice AI work in production, not just in the lab
• Benchmark-leading performance in real-world conditions
• Up to 43% fewer word errors with Quail
• Outperforms Silero VAD in accuracy, balance, and reliability
• 30ms latency for real-time inference at 8 and 16 kHz PCM
• Lightweight and fast SDK, integrated in minutes
• Built by audio engineers with deep experience in signal processing, acoustics, and applied machine learning
• Focus on audio reliability as core infrastructure for Voice AI
• SDK and APIs turn raw, unpredictable audio into stable, machine-ready input
• Runs directly on-device with sub-40 ms latency
• CPU-first inference runtime (AirTen) requiring no GPU or ONNX

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.