Voicery YC Application

Winter 2018Inactive

Voicery went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2018
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Andrew GibianskyFounder

What Voicery does

Voicery synthesizes the most realistic human voices using deep neural networks. Prior to starting Voicery, Andrew, one of the founders, led the speech synthesis research team at Baidu Research. By synthesizing speech nearly indistinguishable from human, Voicery enable new media applications, such as auto-generated audiobooks, podcasts, television dubs, and voice overs.

Voicery's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Voicery, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Voicery

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automated, realistic, emotive speech synthesis

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build deep neural networks that generate human-like speech with natural emotion and tone. Our software creates voice acting for media applications like audiobooks, podcasts, and dubs without needing real voice actors.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco and the company is based there, with some remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the AI talent and startup ecosystem we need, and it keeps us close to early users in media and tech industries.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Voicery YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Voicery's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Voicery would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.