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
Creating natural, high-quality voice output for AI applications is often expensive and requires substantial computational resources, limiting the ability of developers and businesses to integrate real-time speech into their products at scale.
Solution
Kova provides a studio-quality, real-time text‑to‑speech (TTS) service priced at $0.40 per hour, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared with leading providers. The service is delivered via an API that supports low‑latency streaming, enabling developers to embed lifelike speech directly into applications without managing complex infrastructure. Kova’s roadmap includes voice agents capable of answering queries, routing calls, summarizing content, and performing actions, as well as a conversational operating system that allows users to interact with AI through natural dialogue. By offering affordable, high-fidelity speech and expanding toward interactive voice agents, Kova aims to simplify the human‑AI interface for a wide range of use cases.
Target Audience
Primary customers are developers, SaaS platforms, and enterprises building conversational AI, virtual assistants, or voice‑enabled content services that require affordable, high-quality speech synthesis.
Features
- Studio-quality, real-time TTS model with natural prosody and expressive voice output
- Pricing at $0.40 per hour, delivering up to 90% lower cost than major competitors
- Low‑latency streaming API for seamless integration into web, mobile, and desktop applications
- Scalable cloud infrastructure that handles high request volumes without performance degradation
- Upcoming voice agents that can answer, route, summarize, and execute actions based on spoken input
- Planned conversational operating system that provides a unified voice‑first interface for AI services