2022年9月21日

現有投資者Elevation Capital和天使投資者——Disney Streaming的Ajay Arora以及Ola、Mad Street Den、Drip Capital和Vymo的創始人也參與了這輪融資，Murf計劃利用這些資金開發產品創新。2021年，它在Elevation Capital領投的種子輪融資中獲得了150萬美元。人工智能初創公司Murf AI在由Matrix Partners India領投的A輪融資中獲得了1000萬美元。現有投資者Elevation Capital和天使投資者——Disney Streaming的Ajay Arora以及Ola、Mad Street Den、Drip Capital和Vymo的創始人也參與了這輪融資。Murf計劃利用這些資金發展產品創新，加速研發，並擴大其地理足跡。“Murf正在用他們的人工智能配音技術重塑一個價值數十億美元的行業。製作畫外音很困難，而Murf獨特的IP讓每個人都能更快、更好、更便宜地製作出充滿情感和戲劇色彩的聲音，”Matrix India負責人Pranay Desai說。Murf由印度理工學院的畢業生Sneha Roy、Ankur Edkie和Divyanshu Pandey於2020年10月創立，提供了一種支持人工智能的SaaS工具，可以生成類似人類的畫外音。這家初創公司的工具可以被個人用來準備視頻和演示文稿，因此不需要雇傭聲音藝術家或購買錄音設備。Murf表示，他們的目標是通過創建一個在線語音工作室，讓所有內容創作者都能獲得高質量的配音。它的人工智能工具可以模仿一係列的說話風格，比如對話式的、隨意的、權威的、悲傷的、焦慮的和煩惱的等等。 Besides, the AI tool’s use cases include online learning, advertising, podcasting and audiobooks. “Synthetic media is poised to become omnipresent in the near future and voice is at the core of it. At Murf, we continue to improve our speech technology by bringing diverse abilities of talented voice actors to our customers’ fingertips through AI. This Series A investment would further bolster our commitment towards simplifying and scaling voiceovers,” said Edkie. Murf claims its human voiceover SaaS tool has been trained on hours to mimic actual human speech. At present, the startup’s tool can create over 120 human voices across 20+ languages and is planning to bridge the diversity gap by including varied accents including African American, British, and Australian English. Murf said that the global text-to-speech sector is likely to grow into a $7.06 Bn by 2028, expanding at a 14.7% CAGR by 2028. Meanwhile, the voiceover and dubbing market is estimated to generate $8 Bn annually by 2027. In 2021, Murf secured a $1.5 Mn in its seed funding round led by Elevation Capital. Since then, the startup claims to have grown by 22x in ARR and completed over 1 Mn voice over projects. The startup competes with the likes of Play.Ht, Clipchamp, and Resemble.ai, among others. As per a report , the global artificial intelligence industry is projected to turn into a $1,811.8 Bn market by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 38.1% by 2030. Note: We at Inc42 take our ethics very seriously. More information about it can be found here. Loading Next…