Recently, the UAE-basedAI DubbingStartupsCAMB.AI announces seed roundFinancingCAMB.AI has successfully raised $4 million in a round led by Courtside Ventures in New York, TRTL Ventures in Singapore, Blue Star Innovation Partners in Texas, Ikemori Ventures in Japan, and Japanese web designer Eisaburo Maeda. CAMB.AI's CEO Avneesh Prakash was formerly the vice president of mobile business at Tata Communications, while co-founder and CTO Akshat (Ack) Prakash worked at Apple.
CAMB.AI's flagship product DubStudio has attracted much attention. It uses proprietary MARS TTS and BOLI language translation models to provide near real-time dubbing services to hundreds of companies in the media, sports and entertainment fields. Its unique feature is the ability to instantly dub performances into more than 100 languages, dialects and accents, including some low-resource languages such as Afrikaans, Malay and Basque. At the same time, DubStudio is known for itsVery highCapture and convey the speaker's original intonation and emotion with unmatched accuracy, preserving the original sound and its nuances.
Vasu Kulkarni, partner of Courtside Ventures, said that he is well aware of the difficulty of understanding a large amount of content in India, where more than 700 languages are spoken. For NBA fans in India, through CAMB.AI's technology, they can enjoy games narrated in Hindi, which will help promote the globalization of this sport. Currently, CAMB.AI's technology has been widely used, and its dubbing content has been viewed more than 100 million times. Its customers include well-known organizations such as Major League Soccer, Tennis Australia, and Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment.
In addition to sports, CAMB.AI’s technology is also popular in the film and entertainment industry. In the video of Serbian player Djokovic’s press conference after the Australian Open semi-final, the English narration was dubbed into Spanish by CAMB.AI according to the real intonation. In addition, UAE director Nayla Al Khaja recently used this technology in her horror film "Three", which became the world'sFirstThe first multilingual feature film dubbed entirely by artificial intelligence.
Regarding this financing, CAMB.AI CEO Avneesh Prakash said that they have seen amazing applications of technology and hope that this funding will quickly drive the company's further development and global expansion.