We're happy to share that earlier this year, our startup raised a $360,000 pre-seed round from family and friends. This funding has been important for setting up our company, expanding our team, and continuing research and development on upcoming projects. It has also enabled us to launch our API platform, which is now serving its first customers.
In March, we released Papla P1, our advanced text-to-speech model. It's known for realistic, human-like speech and is designed specifically for real-time applications with a streaming API. We've received great feedback from users and strong rankings on platforms like TTS Arena on Hugging Face.
Last week, we also launched a playground that makes it easier to try out our models. At the same time, we're continuing to support developers through our API.
We also have a private beta for our voicebot, designed for smooth, real-time speech-to-speech interactions using our conversational speech technology. The voicebot is currently being tested by a select group of users, and their feedback is helping us enhance its performance and capabilities. If you're interested in joining this testing group and trying out our voicebot demo, please reach out at hello@papla.media - we'd love to hear your feedback!
We're excited for what's coming next, keep an eye out for more updates soon.