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DeepZen

Text-to-speech technology

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Tech
  • Content
  • Automation
Soho, London, UK

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Company mission

To create audio content that’s rich with the emotion, intonation and rhythm of the natural voice - but in a fraction of the time it takes to create traditional narration.

Our take

The popularity of audiobooks is skyrocketing, reflecting a perhaps unanticipated side-effect of the accelerating pace of digital transformation. The problem is, producing audiobooks is a time-consuming and expensive task. The same very much applies to all voiceover content. DeepZen is a company that’s developed a remarkable solution: complex AI voiceover that can be automated and adjusted, resulting in comparatively rich audio content in a fraction of the time.

Whilst the audiobook aspect of DeepZen’s enterprise is perhaps the most headline grabbing, its other forays into areas like e-learning, gaming, and advertising may also be highly lucrative. With AI assistants becoming more deeply embedded in day-to-day life as the Internet of Things develops, demand for good AI voiceover is growing correspondingly.

Nevertheless, focusing on the audiobook market puts ZenDesk in a niche that other text-to-speech AI startups haven’t yet looked to capitalise on. Play.ht and Murf, for example, offer more generalist services, so DeepZen’s are well set to distinguish themselves in the market.

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Kirsty

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Funding (2 rounds)

Mar 2020

$2.4m

SEED

Jan 2018

$1.2m

SEED

Total funding: $3.6m

Leadership

Taylan Kamis

(CEO)

Served as a finance manager at Thames Water and AMEC before moving uwpards to become a director at Microsoft. Subsequently worked as CFO/finance director at a number of portfolio companies.

Kerem Sozugecer

(CTO)

Has held various senior engineering and product roles at General Electric, Telephony@work, and Oracle. Subsequently founded Shopamani, then marketing automation platform LeftBrain.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at DeepZen

  • Deepzen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religious beliefs, age, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression