Palabra.ai

What Palabra.ai does

Palabra.ai is a London-based AI company that provides real-time speech-to-speech translation for video calls, webinars, in-person events, live streams, and developer platforms. Its core technology is a proprietary Large Language Model that combines automatic speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech in a single streaming pipeline, delivering sub-second latency across more than 60 languages and 1,000+ language pairs. The company reports a 2.4% word error rate, stated to be 31% lower than the nearest competitor, and offers differentiated capabilities including voice cloning from six seconds of audio, speaker diarization, custom glossaries, and zero-data-storage privacy architecture. The product is delivered via a self-serve web app and native integrations with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, OBS, vMix, YouTube, Vimeo, and Castr.

The company monetizes through tiered subscriptions across three product modules: Online Meetings ($60-$375/month), In-Person Events ($375-$2,250/month), and Streams & Broadcasting ($225-$1,125/month), with pay-per-hour capacity add-ons and custom Business tier pricing for enterprise customers. A separate streaming API and SDK target developers and platform builders embedding translation into third-party products. Go-to-market is hybrid: product-led growth with free trials for SMB and mid-market customers, paired with a direct enterprise sales motion offering dedicated account managers, custom SLAs, and regional server deployment. Distribution is augmented by integrations with major video conferencing and streaming platforms. Notable disclosed customers include DHL, UNICEF, Hyundai, BCG, Deloitte, and Fujitsu.

Palabra was founded in 2025 and raised an $8.4 million pre-seed round led by Seven Seven Six (Alexis Ohanian's venture firm) in August 2025. In November 2025 it acquired Talo, an all-in-one AI translation platform, and consolidated offerings into a unified product suite. By April 2026 the company reported surpassing $1 million in annual recurring revenue, representing 17x growth in six months from approximately $60,000 in October 2025. The company operates from London with disclosed expansion plans into North America and continental Europe.

Name

Palabra.ai

Legal name

Palabra AI

Website

https://palabra.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Palabra.ai is a London-based AI company that provides real-time speech-to-speech translation across 60+ languages via a proprietary LLM, serving enterprise customers, broadcasters, event organizers, and developers through subscriptions and an embedding API.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Speech Translation Software

NAICS

Translation and Interpretation Services (54193), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Communications Services, Nec (4899)

akta.pro primary industry

Speech Translation & Multilingual Speech Tech (HDAAAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Conversational AI Platforms (chat/voice bots, orchestration) (HDAAAFAC), Voice Cloning, Dubbing & Audio Generative Media (HDAAAFAK), Multilingual/Translation Communication Apps (BPAMACAJ)

Keywords

• Real-time speech translation
• AI voice translation
• Speech-to-speech API
• Multilingual communication software
• Live audio translation

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans (Meetings & Presentations): Monthly/annual subscription tiers for video call translation with capacity-based pricing: Starter ($60/mo), Pro ($150/mo), Team ($375/mo), Business (custom)
2. Subscription Plans (In-Person Events): Monthly/annual subscription for event translation: Starter ($375/mo), Pro ($1,200/mo), Team ($2,250/mo), Business (custom)
3. Subscription Plans (Streams & Broadcasting): Monthly/annual subscription for live stream translation: Starter ($225/mo), Pro ($600/mo), Team ($1,125/mo), Business (custom)
4. Pay-Per-Hour Capacity: Usage-based hourly pricing available on all plans for additional capacity beyond base allocation (e.g., $20/hour for Starter Meetings)
5. API/SDK Licensing: Developer API access for embedding real-time voice translation into third-party platforms and products

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Palabra.ai provides a real-time AI speech-to-speech translation platform that delivers simultaneous two-way voice translation across 60+ languages and 1,000+ language pairs with sub-second latency. The platform is offered both as a streaming API for developers to embed translation into third-party products and as ready-to-use tools for online meetings, webinars, live streams, and in-person events, replacing the need for human interpreters at 9.3x lower cost.

Product overview

Palabra.ai is a unified real-time AI voice translation platform offering both an API product for developers and ready-to-use tools for end users. The core Palabra API provides streaming speech-to-speech translation with ASR, machine translation, and TTS capabilities. The product portfolio includes Online Meetings Translation for video conferencing (Zoom, Meet, Teams), Webinar Translation, Live Stream Translation, Events and Conferences translation, and a TTS Demo. The platform supports 60+ languages and 1,000+ language pairs with sub-second latency. In November 2025, Palabra acquired Talo (an all-in-one AI translator for calls, events, streaming & API) and launched a unified product suite. All offerings are built on proprietary LLM technology and share the same low-latency infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Palabra API Streaming API that handles the full speech translation pipeline (ASR, machine translation, and TTS with voice cloning) over WebRTC/WebSocket, allowing developers to embed real-time multilingual communication into their own platforms. Targeted at software developers and platform builders.
• Online Meetings Translation Real-time translation for video calls that works directly with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams without plugins, providing two-way live speech translation and real-time captions. For teams running multilingual meetings and client calls.
• Webinar Translation Simultaneous live audio translation for webinar speakers and Q&A sessions that integrates with existing webinar setups without disruption. For webinar hosts serving multilingual audiences.
• Live Stream Translation Real-time translated audio and captions added to any live stream, with plug-in support for OBS, vMix, YouTube, Vimeo, Castr, and any SRT/RTMP/HLS workflow. For streamers and broadcasters reaching global audiences.
• Events and Conferences Translation Professional-grade real-time translation for in-person conferences and panels without interpreter booths; attendees tune in on their own device to hear everything live in their language. For event organizers and conference producers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 17x ARR growth in six months (from ~$60K in Oct 2025 to $1M+ in April 2026)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

AI capability6 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• TalocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 November 2025Palabra AI acquired Talo, an all-in-one AI translation platform for calls, events, streaming, and API. The acquisition expanded Palabra's product suite with additional real-time multilingual communication capabilities.
• ZoomcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Zoom video conferencing platform for seamless real-time translation during meetings without additional software
• Google MeetcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Google Meet for real-time speech translation during video calls
• Microsoft TeamscoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Microsoft Teams for enterprise video conferencing translation

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Wordly.ai: Wordly is the closest direct competitor: an AI-powered real-time interpretation and translation platform for meetings, events, and conferences. Both companies target the same buyer (procurement, event ops, IT) with a subscription SaaS model replacing human interpreters, and both market heavily on cost reduction vs. human interpretation.
• Interprefy: Interprefy provides remote simultaneous interpretation and AI-powered speech translation for events and conferences. It competes head-to-head with Palabra in the events & conferences segment, offering both human interpretation platform services and AI captioning/translation modes.
• KUDO: KUDO is a multilingual meeting and conference interpretation platform combining human interpreters with AI speech translation. It overlaps directly with Palabra's meetings and events offerings and targets the same enterprise buyer with subscription and per-event pricing.
• Unbabel: Unbabel offers an AI-powered language operations platform combining machine translation with human review for enterprise customer service and content localization. While more text/customer-support focused, it competes for the same multilingual enterprise budget and offers real-time translation capabilities similar to Palabra's.
• DeepL: DeepL is a premium AI translation service known for high-quality text translation, now expanding into voice and real-time translation offerings. DeepL competes with Palabra on translation quality claims and is moving into the same enterprise multilingual communication space, though historically more document-focused.

Broad incumbents

• Google Translate: Google Translate and Google's real-time translation features in Google Meet represent the largest incumbent threat. Bundled into Google's broader Workspace productivity suite at effectively zero marginal cost to enterprise customers, it competes on the same use cases Palabra serves but as part of a much wider communications platform portfolio.
• Microsoft Translator: Microsoft Translator ships natively inside Microsoft Teams and offers real-time captioning and speech translation. As a default-enabled feature within the dominant enterprise communication platform, it competes with Palabra's Microsoft Teams integration and is offered as part of a much broader enterprise productivity bundle.
• LanguageLine Solutions: LanguageLine is the largest dedicated interpretation services provider globally, offering phone, video, and on-site interpretation across hundreds of languages. It competes with Palabra by serving the same enterprise need (real-time multilingual communication) via the human-interpreter model that Palabra explicitly displaces at 9.3x lower cost.

Emerging players

• Speechmatics: Speechmatics provides enterprise-grade automatic speech recognition with multilingual support and custom language models. It overlaps with Palabra's ASR foundation and competes for developer/enterprise budgets building multilingual voice products, though Speechmatics focuses on the recognition layer rather than end-to-end speech translation.

Others

• Rev AI: Rev (formerly Rev.com) provides transcription and captioning services with AI and human options, plus a speech-to-text API. It is adjacent to Palabra's offering (speech-to-text is the upstream step), targeting similar enterprise customers with transcription needs but not offering end-to-end real-time speech translation.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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