Multilingual AI Voice and Dubbing Startup pyannoteAI Raises EUR 8.1M – slator.com

Multilingual AI voice and dubbing startup pyannoteAI has announced that it has raised EUR 8.1m (USD 8.9m) in seed funding to grow and scale its core technology — speaker diarization — in multiple languages. Speaker diarization uses AI to understand who said what in a conversation. The round was led by Crane Venture Partners and […]

Experts React to Mistral OCR, a New Multilingual Text Processing Tool – slator.com

AI startup Mistral has announced the release of Mistral OCR — a multilingual, advanced optical character recognition (OCR) API that allows users to accurately convert any PDF to a text or markdown file. The ability to accurately convert scanned or digitized PDFs to editable text files remains a challenge for language service providers that require […]

Live Speech Translator Lingopal.ai Raises USD 14M Series A – slator.com

Having been put to the test during the 2025 US football championship game (Super Bowl LIX), where it provided near-instantaneous speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) of sports commentary into several languages, 18-month old startup Lingopal.ai announced on February 12, 2025 that it had secured USD 14M in Series A funding. Led by DCM, with participation from Scrum […]