INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
announced $1.8 million in seed funding.The investment comes from Clique Capital Partners, a $100 million fund created specifically to fund
innovative voice technology
Yobe had previously received $790,000 in the form of a National Science Foundation SBIR grant in 2016.Company co-founder and CEO Ken Sutton
want Alexa to play a Spotify playlist, you could (in theory at least), say the wake word from across a crowded room, give the playlist
command and the device would execute it in spite of the noise
noise, but Yobe is supposed to solve this.Sutton made clear the research phase is done and the funding is about getting ready to go to
The capital raised is to streamline and optimize [the technology] for deployment
We will be in market with a product to sell in 30 days, and all of the usual suspects are lined up and waiting for us to call with a live
enforcement, hearing aid manufacturers and meeting transcription services
You could even use voice as a biometric marker for authentication purposes
But the company has decided to focus its early efforts on voice-driven devices as an initial go-to market strategy.The company was founded
Hamid Nawab, an MIT PhD and researcher, whose work has focused on applying AI to signal processing
