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PlayAI

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.

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5370

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.

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PlayAI 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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conversational voice modelsVoice AIcapable of cloning any voice or accent
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Companies similar to PlayAI

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

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Kalpa Labs

match 66

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.

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

AssemblyAI

match 50

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 concepts: voice ai; shared product terms: voice, speech, model; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

EzDubs

match 44

EzDubs is a real-time speech translator. Our proprietary models translate speech without waiting for complete sentences, clone voices on the fly (without enrollments), and even replicate emotions in the translated language. Our iOS and Android apps translate live phone calls, automatically dub voice messages, and auto-translate text conversations so that you can communicate seamlessly across languages, with your voice and emotions. Thousands of users use EzDubs to communicate with friends and fa

shared product terms: real, time, speech, model; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Trim

match 38

Trim is building a general intelligence AI model that can simulate real-world physical systems evolving over time.

shared extracted concept terms: model; shared product terms: model, real, time; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Interstate Analytics

match 38

Interstate Analytics helps marketers make smarter decisions. The customers of the company are Betabrand, Outdoor Voices, EVERLANE, and JACK ERWIN. It pulls in its users’ visit, conversion, and spends data across all channels and centralizes it in a dashboard. It allows its users to spend less time wrangling data and more time acting on it. It applies attribution models to its users’ data that take into account all consumer touchpoints and makes better spend allocation decisions with accurate per

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

Hey Telo

match 24

Voice AI for Home Services

shared extracted concepts: voice ai; shared product terms: voice; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator