Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.
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naddr1qv…xwemRime, a voice AI startup, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round to improve enterprise call handling. The company distinguishes itself by training voice models on its own recorded conversational data, focusing on accurate pronunciation of industry-specific terms and brand entities. Rime is shifting its focus to developing advanced speech-to-speech models to reduce latency and improve user interaction, aiming to overcome the limitations of current AI voice technology compared to legacy IVR systems. - Rime has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round led by M13 Ventures. - The startup trains voice AI models on proprietary conversational data recorded in its own studio, rather than web scraping. - Rime focuses on tuning models for pronunciation of brand entities and industry-specific terms using a phoneme-based architecture. - The company is shifting development towards speech-to-speech models to reduce latency and improve interaction quality. - Rime serves clients in sectors including food service, healthcare, airlines, and fintech, claiming longer customer call times. - The new funding will be used to expand the team, focusing on model development, engineering, and partnerships. - Rime previously raised $5.5 million in a seed round. Continue reading https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/rime-picks-up-24m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-field-customer-calls/