pyannoteAI funding news – Paris-based pyannoteAI Secures €8.1 Million in Seed Funding

The funding round was led by Crane Venture Partners and Serena, with support from well-known angel investors Julien Chaumond (CTO of HuggingFace) and Alexis Conneau (formerly at Meta and OpenAI).

Hervé Bredin, Co-founder of pyannoteAI and former research scientist at CNRS said, “Speech technology has advanced significantly, yet it still falls short of capturing the full picture. Voice is more than just words, For a decade, pyannote technology has been leading the way in distinguishing speakers and voices in real-world conversations—especially in high-stakes environments where every voice must be heard.”

pyannoteAI believes that analyzing spoken conversations is a key foundation for industries that rely on voice—like customer service, healthcare, meetings, and dubbing for videos.

However, understanding more than just the words—like tone, emotion, and speaker identity—is still a big technical challenge because of how complex real-life speech is.

Their open-source tools are already used by over 100,000 developers and downloaded 45 million times each month on HuggingFace. Now, pyannoteAI is launching enterprise solutions to meet the rising demand from businesses.

Vincent Molina, Co-founder of pyannoteAI said, “We’re bringing enterprise-grade Speaker Intelligence AI to businesses that depend on voice data, Our goal is to make speaker-aware AI as seamless and universal as speech itself.”

pyannoteAI’s platform helps create dubbing and synthetic voices for media, making sure the voice sounds natural and accurate in any language. With the new funding, the company plans to grow faster in the U.S. and Europe.

Morgane Zerath, Investor at Crane Venture Partners said “As the old saying goes, ‘it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it’—and in the world of Voice AI, that distinction has never been more important. pyannoteAI’s groundbreaking approach to Speaker Intelligence AI is setting a new standard for how businesses process and extract value from spoken data. We, at Crane, are thrilled to back a team that is redefining the fundamental layer of voice technology,”.

Matthieu Lavergne, Partner at Serena said, “pyannoteAI is redefining the way businesses harness voice data, turning raw speech into actionable intelligence. The team expertise in speaker diarization is unparalleled, and their transition from open-source leadership to enterprise-grade AI solutions marks a pivotal shift in the Voice AI landscape. We, at Serena, are excited to back their journey in making Speaker Intelligence AI a fundamental layer of modern voice technology,".

About pyannoteAI

pyannoteAI is leading the way in Speaker Intelligence AI, changing how AI understands spoken language. Its core technology, speaker diarisation, helps build advanced speech tools and real-time voice recognition for businesses.