Inworld AI

58 Total Employees
Year Founded: 2021
Inworld AI is a realtime voice AI research lab and platform. It builds the voice layer for consumer AI, the speech that powers companions, tutors, coaches, customer-service agents, and creative and content applications. Inworld's flagship product is text-to-speech, top-ranked on the independent Artificial Analysis Speech Arena, and around it the company offers a full realtime voice stack. That stack includes text-to-speech (Realtime TTS-2, with over 100 languages and natural-language voice steering), speech-to-text, and an LLM router that reaches 200+ models from every major provider with no markup. Developers can call any product on its own, for example Realtime TTS through a single API call, or combine speech-to-text, an LLM, and text-to-speech into one live conversation through the Realtime API. Dedicated GPUs are available for the largest workloads. Inworld serves developers and founders building consumer AI products. As voice quality becomes commoditized, the company's focus is realtime conversation at scale: voice agents that respond in roughly 200 milliseconds for thousands of simultaneous users, at a cost that stays efficient as usage grows. Inworld is a product-oriented research lab. Its founding team pioneered conversational AI and generative models at API.AI (acquired by Google and renamed Dialogflow), Google, and DeepMind, with expertise spanning language models, speech synthesis, multimodal interaction, and design. Inworld has raised more than $125M from investors including Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Intel Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Section 32, Meta, Microsoft's M12, and LG Technology Ventures. The company was one of six selected for the 2022 Disney Accelerator.