Deepslate secures €7.7M for its European voice AI platform

What happened

Berlin-based voice AI company Deepslate has raised €7.7 million in a seed round (an early stage of company funding) led by Munich-based technology investor 42CAP , with participation from Alstin Capital , existing investor SIVentures and several business angels. Deepslate develops its own speech-to-speech AI models, which process spoken language directly rather than first converting speech into text.

The company focuses on European languages and hosts its technology entirely within the EU. Conventional voice AI typically converts speech into text, processes it through a language model and then converts the response back into speech.

Deepslate instead operates with an end-to-end model in which audio is processed directly and returned as audio. The company says this approach reduces latency (the delay between asking for something and getting it) while retaining information such as tone, emphasis, dialect and other aspects of spoken language.

Key facts

• Deepslate instead — uses: an end-to-end model in which audio is processed directly and returned as audio