MODULATE RAISES $25M TO BUILD THE AUDIO INTELLIGENCE LAYER FOR VOICE AI

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Modulate raised $25M, led by Future Ventures [5], to build the understanding layer for voice AI. Transcripts drop the fraud, frustration, and abuse hiding in conversations. Velma, Modulate's audio-native model, catches them by orchestrating 100+ voice-specialized submodels running on raw audio. ✅ Stop fraud→ catch deepfakes with the #1-ranked detection model on Hugging Face ✅ Catch AI agent failures→ flag hallucinations and compliance violations in real time ✅ Keep customers→ spot churn and dissatisfaction signals ✅ Protect human and AI agents→ flag risk and abuse ✅ Build your foundation with it→self-serve APIs; top ranked Hugging Face Leaderboard STT API The funding brings more models, deployment options, and broadens the APIs for teams building with voice.