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ai-audio-startups

Community list of startups working with AI for audio and music tech

Music

Creation & Production

• Sonauto - Create hit songs with AI
• Microphone Studio - Multi-track recording without expensive studio equipment
• TuneFlow - Generate lyrics, melody, drum beats and a lot more, while still being able to edit and mix like any professional DAWs.
• CassetteAI - AI powered music production platform: Make lyrics, beats & vocals with AI then mix & publish straight from Cassette.
• AIVA - The Artificial Intelligence composing emotional soundtrack music.
• beatoven.ai - A simplified music creation tool that helps you create music for your videos and podcasts.
• Infinite Album - Adaptive AI music for gamers who livestream.
• Epidemic Sound - High quality music and sound effects for all your content, all rights included.
• Wonder - Dynascore: The world’s first Dynamic Music Engine.
• Amper (Acquired by Shutterstock) - AI Music Composition Tools for Content Creators.
• mayk.it - your virtual music studio.
• boomy - Make instant music, Share it with the world.
• enote - Intelligent Sheet Music
• Qosmo - Qosmo is a group of artists, researchers, designers, and programmers.
• AI Music (Acquired by Apple) - Our music helps brands enable deeper connections with their audiences.
• Splash HQ - The next generation of music producers
• musico - AI-driven software engine that generates music. It can react to gesture, movement, code or other sound.
• Yousician - The largest music educator on the planet.
• Tape It - App for songwriting & audio recording.
• sessionwire - All-in-one online collaboration platform that delivers a seamless studio experience.
• Aflorithmic - Professional audio, voice, sound and music to scale.
• Audio Design Desk - The Audio Solution for Video Editors.
• Never Before Heard Sounds - A music studio powered by AI.
• NeuralDSP - Empowers music players by democratizing the access to world-class sound, through an intuitive software/hardware ecosystem.
• Neutone - AI audio plugin & community bridging the gap between AI research and creativity.
• RoEx - AI Powered Mixing Services for Musicians, Producers and Content Creators.
• LANDR - Online music software for creators: music mastering, digital music distribution, rent-to-own plugins, free sample packs, collaboration tools.
• Accusonus (Acquired by Meta) - Audio and Video Editing Software For Creators
• Moises - The Musician’s App.
• Waveshaper (Previously Tonz) - Real-time neural signal processing
• Sonible - Audio Soft & Hardware made in Austria.
• Accentize - Intelligent audio tools
• AI Mastering - AI-powered online audio mastering service.
• Splice - Music-creation technology platform that automates the process of making and sharing music.
• AudioStellar - Open source data-driven experimental sampler.
• chord.ai - Chords and beats for any song!
• DoReMIR - Sing and play into a single mic to get a lead sheet, with lyrics & chords!
• mubert - Instantly generate tracks perfectly tailored to your content on any platform.
• Evoke Music - Find the right music for your videos, podcasts, and business.
• Klangio - Our innovative apps enable you to create sheet music easy and fast!
• XLN Audio - VST plugin developer of Addictive Drums, Addictive Keys, RC-20 and XO.
• Laplacian Audio - Formerly 'Definite Technologies', developing VST/AU/AUv3 that uses AI in order to process/generate sound.
• Lifescore - Adaptive AI music platform. Real time Cellular Composition from high quality audio samples.
• WaveAI - AI-based musical assistanc including lyrics writing assistant.
• Humtap - A platform for real-time music, audio & video creation.
• Voctro Labs - Synthetic Singing for creative media applications.
• Loudly - Music solutions for the digital universe, makers of Soundtracks, AI Studio, Music Maker JAM
• DeepMusic - AI music creation and production.
• Soundraw - Freely customize high quality royalty-free music
• BandLab - The cloud platform where musicians and fans create music, collaborate, and engage with each other across the globe.
• Setmixer - Help artists record, mix and master their live shows using a combination of embedded software, signal processing, AI.
• okio - Open source generative tools for music
• Audialab - Ethical audio AI plugins, tools, and community designed to empower real artists with AI, not displace them.
• suno - Create music and speech with AI
• Lemonaide Music - Generative Music tools integrated with DAWs and 100% royalty free.
• tuney.io - Ethical Music AI for Creative Media.
• KORUS AI - AI music creation platform and your personal music producer exploring the Universe of Sound.
• TRINITI - Gives you new ways to create and express yourself through music.
• voice swap - Change your singing voice using AI.
• mix audio - AI music for your creativity and productivity.
• Audiogen - Generate sounds, sound effects, music, samples, ambience and more with AI.
• Wavtool - web based DAW with AI assistants and support for local VST plug-ins
• Wavacity - A port of the Audacity® audio editor to the web browser.
• DIKTATORIAL Suite - AI audio mastering with text prompts.

Source separation

• TuneFlow - A free DAW that offers high quality vocal, drums, melody, bass stem separation, all-in-one audio separation, editing and vocal/instrument to MIDI transcription.
• Spliter.ai - AI Audio Processing
• Gaudio - Redefine your audio experience in music/video streaming and virtual/augmented reality.
• AudioShake - An On-Demand Stem Creation Platform for the Music Industry.
• Audionamix - Audio separation solutions for the entertainment industry to unlock every ounce of potential from classic content.
• vocali.se - Separate vocals and music from any song, in seconds!
• lalal.ai - High-quality stem splitting based on the world's #1 AI-powered technology.
• VocalRemover - Separate voice from music out of a song free with powerful AI algorithms.
• PhonicMind - Separate vocals, drums, bass and other instruments out of your songs with our HiFi AI.
• EasySplitter - AI-Based Vocal Remover Online for DJ Singers
• Remover.studio/) - Vocal Remover & Online Karaoke
• MVSep - Free separation of songs with many different algorithms (Demucs, MDX, UVR etc)
• MuzLab - Remove vocals from songs and split drums, bass and other instruments out of music.
• Fadr - Remove stems, convert to midi, and create high-quality remixes and mashups using AI tools!

Analysis / Recommendation

• AIMS - AI-powered music similarity search & auto-tagging for anyone who makes music discovery their business.
• FeedForward - The intuitive audio search engine for audio & sound catalogues.
• Aimi - Discover the artists who freed their music from the shackles of songs and playlists.
• Utopia Music - Fair Pay for Every Play
• Musiio (Acquired by SoundCloud) - Use Artificial Intelligence to help automate your workflows.
• niland (Acquired by Spotify) - Build AI Powered Music Apps
• cyanite - AI for Music tagging and similarity search
• musicube (Acquired by SongTradr) - B2B AI music metadata services like auto-tagging, metadata enrichment and semantic search
• Musixmatch - Algorithms and tools for music discovery, recommendation, and search based on lyrics.
• hoopr - Find the best music, tell better stories, grow your audience. AI-powered engine that helps find the right soundtrack.
• Pex - Music identification and copyright compliance. Audio fingerprinting, cover song identification in large scale.
• SONOTELLER - AI music analysis including song lyrics summarization, themes extraction and musical features.

Health & Wellbeing

• Endel - Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep.
• Lucid - Transforming music into medicine, using AI to compose and curate a personalized therapeutic music experience
• Wavepaths - Music for Psychedelic Therapy
• Suki - AI-powered voice solutions for healthcare.
• audEERING - Technology that can detect emotions and health information from the voice.
• brain.fm - Music to Focus Better
• SPOKE - Lo-fi & Lyricism-led Mindfulness music episodes
• sona - music as medicine. research-based music for anxiety made by Grammy-winning producers.
• Novoic - Using speech to detect neurological diseases.
• Ubenwa - Infant health analysis based on cry signals.

Radio / Podcast

• faidr - Your favorite radio, interruption free.
• fathom - The search engine for podcasts.
• Nomono - A self-contained recording kit for capturing interviews in the field.
• Descript - All-in-one audio & video editing, as easy as a doc.
• auphonic - Automatic audio post production web service for podcasts, broadcasters, radio shows, movies, screencasts and more.
• SimonSays - Edit Video 5x Faster Built For Teams
• Podcastle - Studio-quality recording, AI-powered editing, and seamless exporting – easy to use and FREE
• cleanvoice - Removes filler sounds, stuttering and mouth sounds from your podcast or audio recording
• Super Hi-Fi - Artificial Intelligence Powered Music Experiences

Hearing

• Whisper.ai - Smarter than your average hearing aid.
• Eargo - A Revolutionary New Hearing Aid.
• Concha Labs - Helping you hear more clearly

Sound detection

• Audio Analytic - Creating exceptional human experiences through a greater sense of hearing.
• SoundEye - Advanced sound recognition solutions capable of classifying sounds such as screaming, gunshot, coughing, and crying
• cochl - A next-generation sound AI platform that understands any sounds like a human.
• Josh.ai - a voice-controlled home automation system.
• SEE SOUND - The world’s first smart home hearing system
• Epigos.ai - AI models that can be used to extract hidden data from audio sources.
• HyperSurfaces - Seamlessly merging the physical and data worlds without the need for keyboards, buttons or touch screens.
• HyperSentience - HyperSentience delivers context awareness to phones, VR/AR headsets, smart watches, speakers and laptops.
• Circulr Sound - Smart audio wearables
• Securaxis - We turn sounds into information.
• Deeply - We add meaning to every sound in the world using advanced deep learning technology for sound event detection and context recognition
• Reef Pulse - Coral reef monitoring using bioacoustics and AI: Sound event detection (boats, divers, waves, marine mammals, fishes, invertebrates, ...) for impactful management of marine ecosystems.

Speech

Transcription

• Ava - Professional and AI-Based Captions for Deaf and HoH (Transcription & Diarization)
• verbit - Professional AI-Based Transcription & Captioning
• otter - Everything hybrid teams need for productive, collaborative meetings.
• Trint - Audio Transcription Software - Speech to Text to Magic
• Rev - 99% accurate captions, transcripts, and subtitles.
• voiceitt - An app for people with non-standard speech
• deepgram.com - Better voice applications with faster, more accurate transcription through AI Speech Recognition
• fireflies.ai - AI assistant for your meetings
• SoapBox - Speech technology that makes kids heard.
• Amberscript - SaaS solutions that automatically transform audio and video into text and subtitles using speech recognition.
• Speaksee - Live captions what’s being said during in-person group meetings.
• Speechmatics - Autonomous Speech Recognition technology that understands every voice.
• sonix - Automated transcription in 35+ languages.
• Picovoice - End-to-end Edge Voice AI, On-device voice recognition
• BoldVoice - Speak English clearly and confidently
• Gladia - Power your product with cutting-edge AI transcription, translation and audio intelligence using a single API.
• Podsqueeze - Re-purpose your audio or video podcast into transcript, show notes, blog post, video clips and other assets to publish and promote your show.

Synthesis (TTS)

• adauris.ai - Transforming written content into engaging audio with seamless distribution.
• Aflorithmic - Professional audio, voice, sound and music to scale.
• Sonantic (Aquired by Spotify) - Deliver compelling, lifelike performances with fully expressive AI-generated voices.
• kroop AI - Harness synthetic media generation and detection with endless possibilities.
• dubverse - Make your content multilingual at a click of a button and reach more people.
• Resemble.ai - Generate AI Voices that sound real.
• Replica - AI voice actors for games, film & the metaverse.
• Respeecher - Voice Cloning for Content Creators.
• amai - Ultra realistic text to speech voice engines.
• AssemblyAI - Transcribe and understand audio with a single AI-powered API.
• DAISYS - New voices that sound like real people
• WellSaid - Text-to-speech technology that creates life-like synthetic voices, from the voices of real people.
• Deepsync - Generate audio content that exactly sounds like you.
• coqui.ai - Providing open speech tech for everyone
• Voiseed- AI-based Voice Engine is able to mimic the emotions and prosody of human speech.
• Speechki - NLP-based most improved text and audio editing platform with hundreds AI-voices inside.
• MiSynth - A brain-controlled instrument that uses synaptic technology and BCIs to turn imagined sounds into a synthesized MIDI instrument.
• ElevenLabs - Developing the most compelling AI speech software for publishers and creators
• Wondercraft - Wondercraft enables users to generate podcasts using Text-to-Speech technology.
• play.ht - Building the future of content creation based on generative machine learning models.
• Revocalize.ai – Generate studio-quality AI Voices and train AI voice models from the web dashboard or the VST plugin.
• morpheme.ai - Our Actor-First, Digital-Double Voices are powered by the latest AI technology, ensuring that they are efficient, authentic, and ethical.

Enhancement & Manipulation

• Meaning - Streaming real-time voice and accent conversion.
• krisp - An AI-powered software solution for effective online meetings.
• voicemod - Free real-time voice changer.
• audo - Noise cancellation products for creators, developers, and virtual meetings.
• AudioTelligence - Our software transforms the clarity and intelligibility of speech in challenging acoustic environments.
• immersitech.io - We don’t make audio. We make audio better.
• utterly - Noise removal for meetings and audio.
• claerity.ai - Cutting-edge AI to eliminate all background noise on video conference calls.
• Neural Love - Set of AI-powered tools to enhance audio quality.
• HeardThat - A smartphone app that turns your smartphone into a sophisticated speech-enhancement device.
• Chatable - A smartphone app that removes disruptive background noise
• BdSound - Intelligent Audio Solution for audio and voice-enabled products.
• echosonic - Revolutionizing microphone by bringing Machine Learning capabilities into it.
• Insoundz - Generative AI Audio Enhancement
• Xound - AI-powered audio enhancements in just one click. Grammarly for audio.

Contributing

Fork the repo, edit the README, and then make a PR.