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With video, Veo3, Sora and others are closing the gap rapidly. But with its endless languages, dialects, accents, subtle intonations, and speech melodies voice remains a highly complex unsolved frontier.\nThat is exactly why we started Deepslate.\nBacked by top-tier investors from the Tech and AI sectors, as well as a major German VC fund, we are well-funded and moving fast.\nWe are building the future of communication.\nWe aren't trying to build another standalone platform; instead, we are the intelligence engine powering countless other applications. 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