What Audioshake does

Audioshake (Audioshake Inc.) is a San Francisco-based AI company founded in 2020 by Jessica Powell, a former Google executive, and data scientist Luke Miner. The company develops AI-powered audio source separation technology using proprietary deep neural networks that deconstruct mixed audio recordings into their constituent components — vocals, individual instruments, dialogue, music, and effects — without generating new content. This non-generative, discriminative approach is purpose-built for professional media workflows and is differentiated from open-source alternatives (Demucs, Spleeter) and generative diffusion-based models by its deterministic outputs and legal training-data provenance. The technology is delivered through multiple product surfaces: a REST API and on-device SDK across iOS/macOS, Android, Windows, and Linux; the AudioShake Live web application for professional teams; and the AudioShake Indie self-serve platform for independent artists and labels. The portfolio spans instrument stem separation (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, strings, winds), dialogue/music/effects separation for dubbing and post-production, multi-speaker separation, lyric transcription and alignment across 40+ languages, music detection and identification, real-time copyright music removal, and a Copyright Compliance System.

The company generates revenue through four streams: B2B API/SDK licensing (subscription and usage-based), SaaS subscriptions (AudioShake Indie and Live), direct enterprise/catalog licensing with major labels and studios, and revenue share from third-party platform integrations. GTM is hybrid — API-first and product-led growth at the developer and prosumer tiers, enterprise field sales for Fortune 500 entertainment clients, and channel partnerships through localization platforms (OOONA, Cielo24, Deluxe), music technology vendors (Algoriddim djay Pro, LANDR, Tuned Global, Tuney, Myxt, Bushido, Audiio), and broadcast infrastructure (AI-Media). The company has raised approximately $16.7M across a $2.7M seed round (Indicator Ventures, 2023) and a $14M Series A (Shine Capital, late 2025), with a customer base of 40+ enterprise contracts including Disney Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music, EMPIRE, NFL Films, ESPN, Netflix, Downtown, and Concord. Audioshake has processed over 100M minutes of audio in the trailing year and reports 400% year-over-year revenue growth alongside AWS, Disney Accelerator, Sony, NAB, and LaLiga award validations.

Name

Audioshake

Legal name

Audioshake Inc.

Website

https://audioshake.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Audioshake is a San Francisco-based AI company that uses proprietary deep neural networks to deconstruct mixed audio into vocals, instruments, dialogue, and effects, serving major music labels, film studios, broadcasters, sports leagues, localization platforms, and AI developers through its API, SDKs, and SaaS products.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Audio Source Separation Software

NAICS

Other Sound Recording Industries (512290), Sound Recording Studios (51224), Sound Recording Studios (512240)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Music Creation & Assistive Tools (Generation, Separation, Mastering) (MPAIAIAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Audio Editing, Restoration & Mastering Software (MPAIAIAH), Dialogue Editing & Cleanup (De-noise, De-click, De-plosive) (MPAHAEAA), On-Device Speech & Audio AI (wake word, ASR, enhancement) (HDAAAJAF), Voice Cloning, Dubbing & Audio Generative Media (HDAAAFAK)

Keywords

• AI audio separation
• Stem separation software
• Lyric transcription API
• Dialogue isolation
• Music source separation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. API/SDK Licensing: B2B licensing of AI audio separation technology via REST API and on-device SDK. Revenue from AI companies training speech/music models, media companies processing archives, and developers building karaoke apps, remix tools, and audio experiences. Enterprise contracts with 40+ clients.
2. SaaS Platform Subscriptions: Self-serve SaaS products: AudioShake Indie for artists and labels, AudioShake Live for professional teams and studios. Subscription-based access with free trial credits. Land-and-expand model with enterprise upsell.
3. Enterprise/Catalog Licensing: Direct licensing deals with major labels, publishers, and studios for catalog-wide stem separation and lyric transcription. Revenue from Disney Music Group, EMPIRE, Downtown, Concord, and others unlocking new revenue streams (sync licensing, immersive audio, lyric videos).
4. Third-Party Platform Revenue Share: Revenue from embedded integrations on third-party platforms including Algoriddim djay Pro, LANDR, Myxt, Tuned Global, and others that bundle AudioShake's technology. White-label/OEM-style embedding with platform partners.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels9 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Audioshake provides AI-powered audio source separation software that deconstructs mixed audio recordings into clean individual components — vocals, instruments (drums, bass, guitar, piano, strings, winds), dialogue, music, and effects — for use in music, film/TV, broadcasting, localization, and AI training. Its offerings are delivered through the AudioShake Live web platform, AudioShake Indie self-serve platform, a REST API, and on-device SDKs, and include instrument stem separation, dialogue/music/effects separation, multi-speaker separation, lyric transcription, music detection/identification, and copyright compliance tools.

Product overview

AudioShake is an AI-powered audio source separation platform offering a portfolio of products including core separation technology (Dialogue/Music/Effects Separation, Instrument Stem Separation, Multi-Speaker Separation), transcription services (Lyric Transcription & Alignment, LyricSync), detection/identification tools (Music Detection, Music Identification, Copyright Compliance System), and developer products (REST API, Local Inference SDK, Real-Time SDK). The platform is accessible through multiple tiers: AudioShake Live (teams/studios), AudioShake Indie (independent artists/labels), API (developers), and SDK (on-device/edge deployment). Use cases span music (stem separation, remixing, karaoke), film/TV (dubbing, localization, immersive audio), broadcast (live sports, captioning), and accessibility (ALS voice preservation).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AudioShake Indie: Enterprise-grade audio separation technology made accessible to smaller teams and independent artists.

Products and services

• AudioShake API REST API for AI audio source separation, transcription, and content analysis with webhook notifications, API key authentication, 60 requests/second rate limit, and batch processing of up to 20 model targets per request. Designed for developers and enterprises integrating audio separation into their own applications.
• Local Inference SDK On-device audio source separation SDK running models without network calls, available for iOS/macOS (Metal/Neural Engine), Android (OpenGL ES 3.1+), Windows (DirectX 12/CUDA), and Linux (CUDA 11.8+). Supports configurable chunk sizes down to ~46ms latency for real-time processing. Targeted at developers embedding AI audio capabilities into edge applications.
• Instrument Stem Separation AI-powered separation of music into individual instrument stems including vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, strings, and winds. Used by music labels, producers, and remastering engineers to create stems from legacy recordings lacking original multi-tracks.
• Dialogue, Music & Effects Separation AI-powered separation of dialogue, music, and effects from mixed audio/video content for dubbing, captioning, and post-production workflows, creating clean dialogue tracks while preserving music and sound effects. Used by film/TV studios, broadcasters, sports leagues, and localization platforms.
• Multi-Speaker Separation High-resolution multi-speaker separation technology that detects, diarizes, and separates unlimited overlapping speakers into individual tracks for broadcast-quality audio. Used for podcasts, broadcast, dubbing, accessibility, and voice AI applications.
• Lyric Transcription & Alignment (LyricSync) Automated lyric transcription with word-by-word and line-level timestamps using proprietary acapella-separation models. Supports 40+ languages with 95%+ accuracy and produces clean, time-stamped lyric transcripts for karaoke, lyric videos, and DSP metadata.
• Music Detection Identifies where music appears in long-form audio and video content with start/end timestamps and confidence scores. Used for licensing review, content indexing, and triggering downstream audio processing workflows.
• Music Identification Detects and identifies specific music in content, returning metadata including title, artists, album, label, release date, ISRC code, and confidence scores. Available in pre-release with limited partner access.
• Copyright Compliance System Identifies composition and recording elements within tracks to support licensing, royalty allocation, and ownership verification. Enables precise isolation of vocals, instruments, and other components for sample-clearing, dispute resolution, and accurate attribution at scale.
• Real-Time Sound Separation SDK Streaming-capable SDKs for real-time music detection and copyright-safe audio cleanup for broadcasters, sports leagues, and media creators. Low-latency separation of vocals, speech, and instruments for live broadcast, live events, and voice AI systems.
• Speech Denoising Removes background noise, hum, and ambient interference from speech recordings. Used for cleaning podcasts, meetings, voiceovers, and as pre-processing before transcription. Available via the AudioShake API.
• AudioShake Live Web application platform for teams and studios to access AudioShake's stem separation, lyric transcription, multi-speaker separation, and DME separation tools at professional subscription tier. Provides higher processing limits, batch workflows, and collaboration features.
• AudioShake Indie Self-service platform for independent artists and labels to access enterprise-grade AI stem separation and lyric transcription tools at lower entry pricing, with free trial credits included on sign-up. Makes professional audio separation accessible to smaller creators.
• Data Preparation / Custom Models Custom model training and catalog preparation services for enterprises. Enables creation of specialized AudioShake separation models tailored to specific audio characteristics, languages, genres, or industry requirements.

Quantifiable outcome

• 25% or more improvement in ASR transcription accuracy when using AudioShake separation as preprocessing for speech recognition
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers28 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration15 records

AI capability6 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

19 partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and flagship.

• AudioLabs (Fraunhofer IIS / Friedrich-Alexander-Universität)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025AudioLabs validated AudioShake's new piano stems models by testing on piano concertos, finding the system performed well even without prior training on classical music data.
• AI-MediacoreTechnology or Integration · 1 April 2025Partnership to integrate AudioShake's separation technology into AI-Media's LEXI Voice solution for live sports broadcasting. Isolates commentary from noisy stadium environments for high-quality translated audio. Integrated through AI-Media's iCap network with first release planned for July 2025.
• EMPIREflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2025Multi-year partnership under which AudioShake provides AI-powered stem and lyric separation technology for EMPIRE's entire music catalog. Enables new revenue streams through sync licensing, immersive audio formats, and fan engagement globally.
• Tuned GlobalcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 February 2025Tuned Global's cloud music platform offers AI-powered audio tools to streaming app clients powered by AudioShake, enabling features including stem separation, karaoke mode, remixing, and lyric transcription.
• Bridging VoicecoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025Nonprofit dedicated to empowering ALS patients partnered with AudioShake and ElevenLabs to use voice cloning technology helping patients communicate using their own voices. AudioShake isolates patients' voices from noisy recordings.
• CrunchLabs (Mark Rober)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025Mark Rober's educational video company uses AudioShake to isolate dialogue for localization, remove copyrighted music for global distribution, and repurpose archival content. Streamlined global distribution workflows.
• ElevenLabscoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025Voice AI company partnered with AudioShake and Bridging Voice for ALS patient voice cloning. AudioShake isolates clean voice samples from recordings for ElevenLabs' voice synthesis platform.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 December 2024AWS Generative AI Accelerator participant. AWS Unicorn Tank competition winner ($100K prize). Built scalable infrastructure on AWS for training and inference. AWS re:Invent 2025 keynote feature. Featured as key infrastructure partner.
• AIMScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024AIMS AI-powered music search partners with AudioShake for lyric transcription to enable semantic lyric-based music search across catalogs. Combines AudioShake's transcription with AIMS' Lyrics Search for context-aware music discovery.
• Disney Music GroupflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2024Expanded collaboration to use AudioShake's sound separation and lyric transcription technology across Disney's extensive music catalog. Enables DMG to unlock new revenue from recordings lacking stems including sync licensing, remastering, immersive audio, and lyric video formats. Also strengthens catalog metadata and lyric distribution to streaming platforms. AudioShake previously participated in Disney Accelerator 2024.
• DeluxecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 April 2024Deluxe, with 100+ years of media/entertainment distribution experience, introduced AudioShake's stem separation as a new service offering for its broadcast clients. Combined services help clients localize and reservice original and catalog content more efficiently.
• Algoriddim djay ProcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024djay Pro 5.0 integration brings AudioShake's industry-leading stem separation to DJs in real time for the first time on both mobile (iOS) and desktop (macOS) devices.
• LANDRcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024LANDR Stems Plugin powered by AudioShake enables music producers to extract vocals, drums, bass, and other instruments from any track. Professional-grade accuracy with drag-and-drop functionality for LANDR Studio subscribers.
• TuneycoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024Tuney's Beat Swap remixing tool powered by AudioShake stems. AI analyzes vocal stems for tempo, key, and composition before generating compatible instrumental beats across any genre. Fairly Trained certified AI company.
• WondercraftcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024Wondercraft's AI audio platform integrated AudioShake's Multi-Voice Separation technology allowing creators to isolate individual speakers in multi-person recordings for precise editing.
• Warner Music GroupcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024Major label using AI-powered stem separation for creative projects including Oscar-nominated films and catalog reissues (e.g., Whitesnake 'Into The Light' box set).
• Sony MusiccoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024Sony's Demixing Challenge was won by AudioShake. Sony Music is also a catalog client for stem separation applications.
• OOONAcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 September 2023Integration of AudioShake's speech clean-up technology into OOONA's professional management and production tools (OOONA Create, OOONA Transcribe, OOONA Integrated). Improves ASR transcription accuracy by more than 20%.
• cielo24coreTechnology or Integration · 1 April 2023Joint dubbing solution combining AudioShake's patented separation technology with Cielo24's localization platform. Eliminates need for source files, costly studio time, or high-end sound mixing. Hybrid AI-human approach delivers accurate transcription, translation, and localization at scale.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Lalal.ai: Lalal.ai provides AI-powered vocal and instrument stem separation for musicians, producers, and content creators with a self-serve web product. It is one of the named competitors in the Meta SAM Audio benchmark and competes directly on the same professional music workflows as AudioShake.
• Auphonic: Auphonic is an AI-powered audio post-production service that automates leveling, noise reduction, and speech enhancement for podcasts, broadcasters, and video creators. It overlaps with AudioShake's speech denoising and broadcast use cases and is named in the Meta SAM Audio benchmark alongside AudioShake.
• Moises: Moises (parent of Music.AI) is the most direct competitor to AudioShake in AI audio source separation, offering stem separation, lyric transcription, and mastering tools to musicians and developers. It targets the same SMB and prosumer music-producer base and competes head-to-head in the AudioShake Indie and Live segments.
• FADR: FADR offers AI-powered stem separation and remixing tools aimed at DJs, producers, and music creators. It is another named competitor in the Meta SAM Audio benchmark and competes with AudioShake across the music-stem-separation use case.
• Audionamix: Audionamix has historically specialized in professional vocal isolation and dialogue separation for film/TV post-production — a closely adjacent capability to AudioShake's Dialogue/Music/Effects separation. Audionamix now integrates AudioShake's technology, making it both a competitor and partner in the broadcast post-production vertical.

Broad incumbents

• iZotope: iZotope (a Native Instruments company) offers the RX suite, a leading professional audio repair and restoration toolkit including music rebalance, dialogue isolation, and de-noise capabilities. It overlaps with AudioShake's restoration/cleanup use cases but is sold as a desktop DAW plugin ecosystem rather than an API/SDK.
• Dolby: Dolby offers immersive audio (Atmos) and broadcast audio solutions that overlap with AudioShake's music remastering and broadcast use cases. AudioShake's stem separation is already used to create Dolby Atmos mixes (e.g., Luciano Pavarotti for Decca), making Dolby both a downstream customer enabler and a potential strategic acquirer.
• Adobe (Audition / Premiere Pro): Adobe ships audio speech enhancement and noise reduction features inside Audition and Premiere Pro that overlap with AudioShake's speech denoising and dialogue isolation capabilities. As a broad incumbent with a massive creative-tools installed base, Adobe represents both an embedded alternative and a potential distribution or acquirer partner.

Emerging players

• ElevenLabs: ElevenLabs is a leader in generative voice AI (synthesis, cloning, dubbing). It is a partial competitor in voice AI/dubbing workflows (where AudioShake provides source separation) and also a named AudioShake partner via the Bridging Voice/ALS initiative, illustrating both overlap and complementarity in the audio AI stack.
• Spleeter (Deezer): Spleeter is Deezer's open-source audio source separation library and the most widely deployed free alternative to commercial solutions. While not a direct commercial competitor, it caps the pricing ceiling for AudioShake's self-serve tier and is regularly cited in benchmark comparisons.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AudioshakeAI
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC7olw-IdHcEQOJJPYAg1-Cw
• Facebookfacebook.com/AudioShakeAI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/audioshake
• Instagraminstagram.com/audioshakeai/?hl=en
• TikToktiktok.com/@audioshakeai

Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors15 records

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M&A

Investments

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