Respeecher

About Respeecher

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Respeecher

All products by Respeecher reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

RespeecherAI Voice & Speech

Professional AI voice conversion for film, TV, games, and music

From $9/mo7.3/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Respeecher

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Respeecher's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.7 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Respeecher competes with, and how they differ.

ElevenLabs8.3/10

The scale leader in AI speech, selling self-serve text-to-speech, dubbing and an open voice library on developer-priced API and subscription tiers. Respeecher sells a studio service built on speech-to-speech conversion, per-project licensing and documented talent consent rather than high-volume self-serve.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Resemble AI6.8/10

The closest technical analogue: speech-to-speech conversion and voice cloning sold as an enterprise API, bundled with its own audio deepfake-detection product. Resemble leads with the developer platform, while Respeecher's business is anchored in film, TV and AAA game post-production credits.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Deepdub7.6/10

Israel-based and focused on end-to-end localisation and dubbing of film and TV into other languages, competing for the same studio post-production budgets. Respeecher does localisation too but as often sells voice replacement, de-ageing and archival recreation in the original language.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Murf7.8/10

Self-serve text-to-speech voiceover aimed at corporate e-learning, marketing and explainer-video budgets on a subscription studio model. It overlaps Respeecher's Voice Marketplace tier for creators, not the bespoke entertainment engagements that make up Respeecher's core work.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Voicemod7.7/10

Real-time voice changing distributed as a free consumer desktop app with paid voice packs for gamers and streamers. It shares Respeecher's speech-to-speech approach but targets live consumer use rather than consent-cleared, licensed reproduction of a named performer's voice.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Respeecher's history, with sources.

1. Jan 6, 2026Partnership

   MacPaw partnership puts Respeecher speech into the Eney assistant

   Announced at CES 2026, the deal integrates Respeecher text-to-speech into Eney, MacPaw's AI assistant for macOS, which is in beta on Setapp ahead of a full 2026 launch.

   prnewswire.com
2. June 2025Milestone

   Named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

   The World Economic Forum selected Respeecher for its 2025 Technology Pioneers cohort in June 2025.

   respeecher.com
3. March 2025Milestone

   Films using Respeecher win five Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards

   Respeecher-supported films drew more than 20 Academy Award nominations in March 2025, and two of them took a combined five Oscars.

   respeecher.com
4. Aug 1, 2024Partnership

   Partnership with Reality Defender on audio deepfake detection

   Respeecher gave the deepfake-detection firm access to its speech-synthesis models so Reality Defender can train detectors against Respeecher-generated audio; marketplace voice data is shared only with explicit donor consent.

   prnewswire.com
5. Dec 6, 2023Funding

   Pre-Series A — $1M

   Gary Vaynerchuk, ffVC, SID Venture Partners, Bad Ideas and ICU backed the round, which Respeecher earmarked for adding studios to its media and gaming client base.

   techcrunch.com
6. Sep 26, 2022Milestone

   James Earl Jones signs over Darth Vader recordings for Respeecher AI voice

   Variety reported that Jones, then 91, stepped back from the role and authorised Lucasfilm to use his archival recordings. Respeecher's Kyiv team completed the Obi-Wan Kenobi Vader voice during the opening months of Russia's full-scale invasion.

   variety.com
7. Sep 29, 2021Milestone

   Emmy Award for "In Event of Moon Disaster"

   The MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality film, in which Respeecher synthesized Richard Nixon delivering the unused Apollo 11 contingency speech, won the Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Media: Documentary at the online ceremony on 29 September 2021.

   openlearning.mit.edu
8. December 2020Milestone

   Young Luke Skywalker's voice synthesized for The Mandalorian finale

   Respeecher recreated Mark Hamill's 1980s-era voice for the Disney+ season two finale from archival ADR, radio plays and audiobook recordings. Director Jon Favreau later said the voice was "completely synthesised using an application called Respeecher".

   respeecher.com
9. Mar 4, 2020Funding

   Seed — $1.5M led by ff Venture Capital

   New York-based ff Venture Capital led the seed round, with Acrobator Ventures, Network VC, ICU Ventures and angel investors participating.

   finsmes.com
10. 2019Funding

    Techstars-run accelerator in Philadelphia — $120,000

    Respeecher went through the Techstars accelerator in Philadelphia during 2019 and took $120,000 from the program in exchange for equity.

    finsmes.com
11. February 2018Founded

    Founded in Kyiv by Alex Serdiuk, Dmytro Bielievtsov and Grant Reaber

    Respeecher was founded in February 2018 in Kyiv, Ukraine by three friends and former colleagues, building speech-to-speech voice conversion rather than conventional text-to-speech.

    respeecher.com