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Kalpa Labs

We're building the next frontier of speech models. Generalist speech models that unlock in-context learning & strong instruction following for speech models alongside unifying existing speech capabilities like speech to text, text to speech, voice cloning, etc.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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We're building the next frontier of speech models. Generalist speech models that unlock in-context learning & strong instruction following for speech models alongside unifying existing speech capabilities like speech to text, text to speech, voice cloning, etc.

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Kalpa Labs is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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text to speechspeech to textspeech modelsvoice cloningin-context learningstrong instruction followingspeech models
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et al.

match 89

et al. is a mobile app that aggregates your newsletters, research papers, articles, and more, in one place. Think of it as an LLM-powered feed delivering you useful content in short insights. For example, if you’re building an AI voice agent, you’ll see the latest in speech-to-text models without having to actively search, go through a pile of research papers, or prompt an LLM. We extract key takeaways from long-form content - allowing you to read as little or as much as you like from the origin

shared extracted concept terms: voice, speech, text, model; shared product terms: re, voice, speech, text; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

AssemblyAI

match 76

Today’s top Voice AI companies rely on AssemblyAI’s speech-to-text and speech understanding models to launch groundbreaking products fast and to scale with ease.

shared extracted concept terms: speech, text, model, voice; shared product terms: voice, speech, text, model; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

PlayAI

match 66

Play is a Voice AI company that specializes in building conversational voice models capable of cloning any voice or accent and generating speech in real-time.

shared extracted concept terms: model, voice, clon; shared product terms: speech, model, voice, clon; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Mindori

match 61

Mindori is the accurate way to search your app by voice for e-commerce companies. Build magical conversational search for your app in minutes, with no learning curve. "What about shirts that I can wear at a wedding?". Search over concepts that you may not have thought to index in your database. "Find a green shirt" - "What about in red?". Make the experience magical for users through context. Was it "Koffee Kult" or "coffee cult"? Customize speech recognition models for your product catalog and

shared extracted concept terms: speech, model; shared product terms: speech, model, context, voice; shared product theme: context and memory; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Studdy

match 56

At Studdy, our mission is to unlock the full potential of the next generation by providing a personalized AI tutor for every student. Studdy Buddy is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, as well as advanced speech, text, and image recognition technology to supercharge students' ability to learn new subjects. We believe that making self-learning as easy as possible for as many students as possible (no matter their cultural, social, or educational background) is the key to unlocking the full potenti

shared extracted concept terms: text, speech; shared product terms: next, speech, unlock, text; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Stellon Labs

match 54

Stellon Labs is an AI research lab that is building tiny frontier AI models that can run on edge devices like smartphones, wearables and embedded systems. Our first open source model, KittenTTS, is a super-tiny text-to-speech model, that got 8K Github stars and 45K model downloads within 2 weeks of launching.

shared extracted concept terms: model; shared product terms: frontier, speech, model, like; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator