

Voice Agents + Speech Models for East Asia with Kindred Ventures
A new generation of low-latency speech models and voice agents are finally keeping pace with the speed of human conversation and closing the gap of language barriers in real time.
On Wednesday, June 24th Kindred Ventures and Kotoba are hosting an event dedicated to the frontier of voice AI. We're bringing together engineers, researchers, and builders to hear from the co-founders of Kotoba - a frontier voice AI company building a real-time speech model and simultaneous translation technology for East Asian languages.
Event Details
4:00pm Doors open
4:30pm Kotoba overview and live demo
4:45pm Discussion with Ludovic Copéré (Investor, Sony Ventures), Will Matteson (Speech AI, Salesforce)
moderated by Jungo Kasai (Co-founder/CTO, Kotoba)5:05pm Discussion with Mike Henry (Founder/CEO, Parasail), Sewon Min (Assist. Prof at Berkeley AI)
moderated by Noriyuki Kojima (Co-founder/CEO, Kotoba)5:25pm Discussion with Noriyuki Kojima, Jungo Kasai, and Steve Jang (Founder and Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures)
5:40pm Mixer and on-floor demos
6:00pm Event concludes - stick around for our S. Korea vs. S. Africa World Cup watch party!
Space is limited — RSVP to reserve your spot.