Kova develops human‑AI interaction tools, starting with a studio‑quality, real‑time text‑to‑speech model priced at $0.40 per hour—up to 90% cheaper than leading alternatives. The company plans to expand the suite with voice agents that can answer, route, summarize, and act, as well as a conversational operating system.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
High-quality, real-time text-to-speech services are often priced prohibitively, limiting their use in applications that require scalable, low-latency voice output such as interactive agents, media production, and accessibility tools.
Solution
Kova offers a studio-quality, real-time text-to-speech model priced at $0.40 per hour, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared with leading providers. The service runs on a cloud infrastructure that streams synthesized speech with minimal latency, enabling seamless integration into conversational interfaces and media pipelines. By exposing a simple API, Kova allows developers to generate natural-sounding speech on demand without managing complex model deployments. The company plans to extend the platform with voice agents capable of answering, routing, summarizing, and performing actions, as well as a conversational operating system that can be controlled through natural language.
Target Audience
Primary customers are developers, SaaS platforms, and enterprises that need affordable, high-fidelity speech synthesis for chatbots, virtual assistants, e‑learning, and media content creation.
Features
- Real-time streaming TTS with studio-quality voice output
- Pricing model of $0.40 per hour of generated audio (≈90% cheaper than competitors)
- Low-latency API designed for integration into interactive applications
- Scalable cloud backend that handles high concurrency without degradation
- Upcoming voice agents that combine speech synthesis with intent handling, routing, and summarization
- Planned conversational operating system for voice‑first interaction across devices