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Papercup, a British startup using artificial intelligence for video dubbing, has raised 20 million in a series A funding round from Comcast-owned Sky and others that will allow it to invest in bringing “more human-like voices” and “human emotion” to AI dubbing.
Octopus Ventures lead the investment round, joined by Local Globe, Sands Capital, Sky and Guardian Media Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Bdmi, as well as such individual investors as Des Traynor, co-founder of business messaging company Intercom, and John Collison, co-founder of online payments firm Stripe. Papercup’s existing investors also include William Tunstall-Pedoe, whose team built Amazon’s Alexa, and Zoubin Ghahramani, senior research director at Google Brain and former chief scientist at Uber.
The capital injection will help the London-based company with its “goal of making the world’s video content watchable in any language through emotive and realistic synthetic voices...
Papercup, a British startup using artificial intelligence for video dubbing, has raised 20 million in a series A funding round from Comcast-owned Sky and others that will allow it to invest in bringing “more human-like voices” and “human emotion” to AI dubbing.
Octopus Ventures lead the investment round, joined by Local Globe, Sands Capital, Sky and Guardian Media Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Bdmi, as well as such individual investors as Des Traynor, co-founder of business messaging company Intercom, and John Collison, co-founder of online payments firm Stripe. Papercup’s existing investors also include William Tunstall-Pedoe, whose team built Amazon’s Alexa, and Zoubin Ghahramani, senior research director at Google Brain and former chief scientist at Uber.
The capital injection will help the London-based company with its “goal of making the world’s video content watchable in any language through emotive and realistic synthetic voices...
- 6/9/2022
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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