Aiola, the leading deep-tech audio and conversational AI lab, $25 million The Series A2 round, including United Airlines, will use ventures as strategic investors along with existing investors, providing total funding for the company so far $58 million. The funding is part of a potentially broad collaboration with United Airlines to investigate the use of Aiola's benchmarking technology in a variety of use cases and turn speeches into structured, actionable data.
AIOLA instantly transforms voice data into structured data, even in noisy, multilingual, and terminology-rich environments where common automatic speech recognition (ASR) tools are lacking. The field team simply speaks to Aiola's Jargonic system and AIOLA handles transcription, terminology recognition, and data structures. Eliminate manual input and enable faster, more informed decisions throughout the operation. Designed for real complexity, Aiora is especially valuable in complex environments such as aviation.
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AIOLA's terminology-specific ASR engine offers more powerful adoption, real-time reporting, and higher data accuracy. United Airlines explores AIOLA's voice AI ecosystem for a variety of potential use cases. To support over 100 languages, employees interact naturally regardless of noise, accent, or terminology, and instantly log structured data to the backend system.
Andrew ChanManaging Director – United Airlines Venture, Corporate Development:
“UAV believes that AIOLA's technology has endless applications across the industry to solve the fundamental problem of capturing data from speech and converting it into structured data used in machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, using speed and accuracy,” he said. Andrew ChanHead of United Airlines Ventures (UAV). “United Airlines Ventures was created to invest in companies that define the future of travel technology. We believe that innovative technologies like Aiola will play a key role in that future.”
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Aiola's A2 round occurs when the voice AI market rises sharply, increasing by 25%. $5.4 billion 2024. The company has strengthened its position as a major voice and conversation AI lab since Series A, supported by peer-reviewed research and real-world developments. What sets the Aiora apart is the patented Adakws model, unlike common voice tools, that detects industry-specific terminology with 95% accuracy and quickly adapts to any workflow. The technology enhances Jargonic, Aiola's speech ecosystem that surpasses Openai and 11 models in a challenging multi-speaker, noisy, and multilingual environment. This advancement is being driven by top aiola researchers from the finest high-tech labs around the world.
“Incomplete or lag data in complex operations is not a widespread industry challenge,” he said. Amir Haramatipresident and co-founder of Aiola. “Voice is the only interface that can solve core data challenges (quality, volume, real-time visibility) without disrupting existing workflows. With the investment from UnitedAirlinesVentures, we can accelerate Voice AI adoption and deliver measurable value from day one.”
AIOLA has made the Voice AI platform available, allowing developers to access patented voice-to-text, speech to text and audio intelligence tools via simple APIs.
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