Uplift AI
Foundational Voice Models for regional languages
How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
Hammad left Apple and took a year off to figure out what he wanted to do with the next decade of his career.
First month: finished netflix :)
Then he spent two months reviewing 20 years of voice tech research papers in chronological order… and somewhere in there realized that there is an opportunity to make amazing voice models for smaller languages — faster than big tech.
What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
At the core, we are solving the problem of universal access to digital knowledge and digital services.
People who would previously never use certain digital services (like online ordering, or online health advice), actually use the service when they are given an intuitive Voice based interface — especially in emerging markets.
Voice Interfaces make it more natural and intuitive to use technology; and we believe it will onboard 100s of millions of new users onto digital services. This will make people more productive, and increase GDP per capita.
What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
When we truly succeed, the world will access technology through our Voice Tech.
And the GDP per capita would increase around the world, as more people will be able to take full advantage of technology using intuitive voice interfaces.
Currently a large part of the world is unable to fully utilize technology coz text-interfaces are very confusing for many people.
