"Coqui, a conversational AI startup, on Wednesday (January 3, 2023), announced that it is shutting down its operation ...

[It] specialises in building open source models and applications in the area of quick voice cloning, text-to-voice, etc. The former employees of Mozilla, left the company after it stopped developing their own Speech-to-text engine, DeepSpeech to begin Coqui.”

#KLKrithika, 2024

https://analyticsindiamag.com/industry-insights/ai-startups/conversational-ai-startup-coqui-shuts-down

#translation #MachineTranslation #ASR #TTS #Coqui #Mozilla #DeepSpeech

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"...Coqui operated primarily as an open-source project, focusing on developing and providing tools and resources for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies."

#KLKrithika, 2024

https://analyticsindiamag.com/industry-insights/ai-startups/conversational-ai-startup-coqui-shuts-down

"...Coqui operated primarily as an open-source project, focusing on developing and providing tools and resources for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies."

#KLKrithika, 2024

https://analyticsindiamag.com/industry-insights/ai-startups/conversational-ai-startup-coqui-shuts-down

I wonder if that project will continue as a non-commercial community effort?