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Phonic

Phonic

Software Development

San Francisco, CA 710 followers

Reliable Voice AI

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Reliable Voice AI

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https://phonic.co
Industry
Software Development
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
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Privately Held

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    🎙️ Voice AI Is Entering Its Second Act   When we first looked at conversational AI in 2024, the big question was: can it sound human? Today, that bar has been met and raised. Latency is under 300ms, voices feel natural, and even Wimbledon is using AI to call lines.   The prevailing narrative is that AI will soon replace customer service entirely. We once shared that belief, but it misses a key consideration: customer service is rarely about information delivery alone. It happens in moments of urgency, confusion or frustration, when empathy matters as much as accuracy.   Our latest report explores where we foresee enterprise value emerging as Voice AI evolves from tool to infrastructure, focusing on: 🧠 Intelligence as the moat – memory, reasoning, and governance as key differentiators 🏗️ Owning the stack – control over latency, cost, and reliability 🏥 Verticalization – industry depth beats generality 📊 Pricing outcomes, not minutes – aligning cost with results   Click to read or listen (powered by ElevenLabs) to our latest report: https://lnkd.in/dyvk-Psd 💬 What do you think: Will Voice AI free human agents to focus on higher-value work, or outright replace them? ElevenLabs Deepgram AssemblyAI Cartesia Rime Vapi Retell AI Bland Daily LiveKit Infinitus Systems, Inc. Reality Defender Stuut Sierra Phonic Cekura Coval Hamming AI Pindrop Liberate Salient Casca Strada Assort Health Tennr SuperDial Hello Patient Avoca Netic HappyRobot FleetWorks Augment EliseAI Marr Labs Toma Numa Slang AI Letta Mem0

  • Killer joint Healthcare AI GTM dinner between Phonic and Kaizen Automation, featuring startups like Kaigo Health (YC F25), Careforce (prev. Helpcare AI), Arini, Paratus Health, and others. Excellent Japanese-Italian fusion, excellent conversation, and some neat lessons: 1️⃣ Most people's phone calls still haven't passed the "Audio Turing Test" -- they can still tell it's an AI, and this is causing meaningful harm to their voice AI businesses. 2️⃣ The need for multilingual is real: some businesses have more Spanish call volume than English, and there's a strong gap between English vs. other languages. Phonic is at the center of both of these challenges -- with us, our customers are building voice AI agents that are more realistic, faster, and conversational than anything else. Reach out if you'd like to book a demo!

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    Big news: we’re announcing Maven Voice. Maven Voice is our enterprise-grade AI voice agent built for the chaotic, noisy and unpredictable situations we encounter everyday. People don’t speak in perfect prompts. We change our minds mid-sentence, switch languages without warning, and reference screenshots we sent three emails ago. And no one wants to hear “press 1 for this, and 2 for that” when they’re already frustrated. Maven Voice understands your problem, your language, your accent, and responds like a real support agent. We’ve tested it in subways, airports, and stadiums so it adapts like a seasoned pro with a consistent, even-keeled, natural tone that handles interruptions and keeps up with the conversation. On the tech side, we made sure it can plug-and-play with telephony, CCaaS & CRM platforms and deliver seamless agent handoff, all powered by Maven’s orchestration engine. We partnered with the best in the business to give our customers flexibility to pick the right voice engine for their brand. Thank you to OpenAI, Phonic, ElevenLabs, and Cartesia for helping make this possible. Thank you and congratulations to the incredible team behind the most advanced voice AI agent in the world: Joyce Wong Phan, MBA (Product), Rosie Levy Riste (SE), Tammy Lee and Dalya Browne (Marketing), brendon puntin, Jeremy Joslin and Dongsheng Wang (Eng), Eniola Oluwole (UX), and Aimee Allen (CX). 🎥 We had a ball bringing this to life in this 👇new video showing Maven Voice in action. Details in the comments.

  • 🚨 Spotlight on Arun 🚨 Meet Arun, MIT grad, IOI 🥈 medalist, CS & Linguistics double major ❓ What led Arun to Phonic? Arun did a lot of audio research during his M.Eng & really liked the vision ❤️ Favorite part of Phonic? Being able to work on a variety of things with high velocity & really take ownership 🔥 Best part of Phonic culture? A friendly and open team & being able to take responsibility over decisions

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Phonic 1 total round

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