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1 | Descript | Resemble.ai | Respeecher | Trends Noticed | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Logo |  | - Voices have emotion, making them stand out from other products that synthesized, un-human-like voices. - Editing after the fact is highlighted as a special feature - Resemble and Respeecher both note how easily the voices can be used for gaming purposes - APIs or other sercvices like Zapier are offered for integrations - Strong ethics statements and technologies are used to make sure these products are not used for innapropriate purposes. - Yearly discounts are offered | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | URL | www.descript.com/ | www.resemble.ai/ | http://www.respeecher.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Overview | Descript is a developer of audio editing and transcription software for radio and podcast producers. Descript is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Andrew Mason is the Founder & CEO of Descript. Descript has raised a total of $20M in funding. Descript's main competitors are Scribie, Trint and Otter. Descript has 10 followers on Owler. | Resemble AI's headquarters is in Toronto, Ontario. Resemble AI has a revenue of $1M, and 10 employees. Resemble AI's investors include Craft Ventures, Betaworks, and AET Fund. | Respeecher develops an AI-based platform that allows users to speak in the voice of another person. Respeecher's headquarters is located in Seattle, Washington. Respeecher generates $111.1K in revenue per employee Respeecher has received a total of $1.6M in funding. Respeecher's top competitor is Modulate, led by Mike Pappas, who is their Co-Founder & CEO. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | HQ | San Francisco | Toronto | Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Other offices | Montreal- Lyrebird (research arm) is located here. | None | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Year Launched | 2017 | 2019 | 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | UVP- Unique Value Proposition | This product lets you edit podcasts after the fact by typing in edits. The user's cloned voice is then inserted. The examples shown on the website were impressive. You could not tell the difference between the original and edited voice. | This product is similar to Descript, but offers multiple checkboxes to add emotion, inflection, and change the pace of spoken text. Can take pre-existing audio and build an AI voice. There is a page of the website that shows how to use the AI voices and add them into gaming coding. | This product can change your voice to that of another person. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Features | Overdub- lets you edit podcasts on the fly. It will let you add in different words. You can only use your voice. Speaker Detective- detects and adds speaker labels Collaborative abilities Cloud sync- full version histories Import accurate transcriptions for free and sync to media API agnostic Multi-track timeline editing fades/crossfades scratch text multimedia library File management Security- SOC 2 certified by end of 2020. Transcription can be automatic or human powered. Near instant turnaround Uses Amazon AWS for storage, Google Cloud speech to text, Segment to organize data, Rev for transcription, Zapier to connect to hundreds of apps. | 38,937 voices have been built with the program. Resemble FIll- edits speech by selecting spoken segments, dragging, and editing. APIs- to fetch existing content, create new clips, and create voices on the fly Speech Gradients- control of intonation of each word by adjusting expressiveness, aggressiveness, and pace Voice Cloning- clones from as little as 5 minutes of audio data Resemblyzer- Open Source (GitHub) python package that they use for speaker verification, diarization, and false speech detection. Resemble Clone- Can use web recorder to upload data Resemble AI- produces a cloned voice model TTS- in your own language. 50+ supported languages Gaming- w/Unity plugin can upload raw audio voices with emotion and use different voices for each character APIs- to give Google Home or Alexa a personalized voice Ethics- Resemblyzer is used to make sure it is your voice. | Respeecher had a very minimal website with no options to purchase the product other than to send a message and wait for them to contact you. Can change voice to another person Preserves the subtle details of the voice Proprietary AI/deep learning to produce synthetic speech. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Cool/Unique Features | Overdub- lets you edit podcasts on the fly and uses your own voice. You can only clone your own voice. Can have voice styles that add emotion. Speaker Detective- detects and adds speaker labels White Glove Service for text to speech- 99% accuracy $2minute Can export to Final Cut Pro or Premiere | This product can be easily used in programming for games. Resemblyzer makes sure that you are not using someone else's voice. | Can change your voice to that of another person | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Uses | Videos, podcasts, transcription, scripted broadcasts, telephone calls, meetings, interviews | Marketing content, podcasts, advertising, AI assistants, smart assistants, voice overs, voices for games. | Dubbing/ADR, famous voices, call centers, singing, video games, correct speech impediments | |||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Speaker diarization | yes | yes | no mention | |||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Speech to text | yes | yes | no mention | |||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Text to speech | yes | yes | no mention | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Google text machine translation | yes | no mention | no mention | |||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Voice cloning (text to speech with reference voice for the same language) | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Edit audio by editing text ( i.e. talk by someone’s voice ONLY the same language) | yes | yes | no mention | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Voice translation ( text to speech with reference voice for different language (translate speech of the actor to different language with his voice and prosody) | no | yes | no mention | |||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Prosody translation ( copy the flow speed, peculiarities of word pronunciation, voice semantic intonations, accent) | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Speech alignment (sync with speaker's lips or previous speech) | no mention | no mention | no mention | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Services NOT provided / NOT suitable for | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Analytics provided | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Revenue (USD M) | $1-3 million | n/a- Resemble has not been opened long enough for annual revenue. The $1 million in revenue provided could not be verified by credible sources. | $800,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Employees | 24 | 10 | 9-13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Fee model (Named-user vs. concurrent-user licenses, Monthly vs. annual pricing, Package-based pricing, Consumption-based pricing) | Monthly Pricing- Three Levels Free- 3 hours of speech Producer- $120/yr, $14 monthly- 10 hours of speech Team- $180/year, $15 monthly- Multiple users along with guest editors- 10 hours of speech Enterprise- Must contact for information | Monthly Pricing- Three Levels- 20% discount if paid yearly Entry- $24/month- 100,000 characters, 1 custom voice, 1 user, stock voices, API access Professional- $449/month- 500,000 characters, 3 custom voices, unlimited projects, team collaboration, widget Enterprise- Contact for price- Unlimited voices and characters, 500,000 characters, discount for bulk usage, foreign languages, on premise deployment, premium support. Another page offers Entry for $50, marked down to $30 monthly. | Not Available | |||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Demo / Trial period | Yes, users can try the product for up to three hours a month for free (without providing credit card details). The trial misses some features, including | The user can create a voice for free. | Not Available | |||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Base monthly fee per user | $14 monthly | $24 monthly | Not Available | |||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Highest fee bracket | Enterprise | Enterprise | Not Available | |||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Other fees | Can increase transcription rate permanently for $2/hour. Can increase transcription rate as a one time booth for $2.50/hour White Glove- $2/minute | Can add 100,000 additional characters for $50 monthly. | Not Available | |||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Parent Co | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Funding received (Crunchbase) | 2 Funding rounds- $20 million total in funding. Last funding round was 9/18/19 (Series A). | 1 funding round on 6/30/19- Pre-seed. $2 million. | 4 rounds- for a total of $1.5 million. Last round- 3/4/20- seed round | |||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Investors | Andreessen Horowitz and Redpoint. | GMG Ventures, Betaworks Ventures, Canaan Partners, Craft Ventures, Firstminute Capital, AET Fund. | ff Venture Capital, ICU Ventures, Vlad Ionescu, Acrobator Ventures, Comcast NBC Universal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures, Chris Adelsbach | |||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Subsidiaries | In 2019 Lyrebird was acquired. They operate out of Montreal and are the AI research team for Descript. | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Reviews- TrustPilot (Provide the ratings and 3-5 review comments) | Trustpilot nor Capterra have reviews for Descript. On Product Hunt, Descript has a 4.2/5 rating. There are no reviews by customers on the three review sites. Descript provides their own reviews here: https://www.descript.com/happy-customers | Trust Pilot nor Capterra have reviews for Resemble. On Product Hunt, it has a 5/5 rating. There are no reviews by customers on the three review sites | Trust Pilot, Capterram Product Hunt, nor G2 have any reviews for this product. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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