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October 15, 2024

Multilingual AI: Paris-based Gladia raises $16m to make AI understand accents

The French startup is tackling AI’s failure to understand non-English languages and accents properly

Paris-based AI startup Gladia, which provides speech-to-text technology in multiple languages, has raised $16m in equity funding in a Series A led by Franco-German VC XAnge.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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