Silencio Network LLC

What Silencio Network LLC does

Silencio Network LLC, incorporated in Delaware in 2023 and headquartered in Wilmington, operates a voice and audio data infrastructure platform for AI and robotics model training. The company runs the Silencio mobile app and a browser-based contribution surface, aggregating audio from 2.5 million contributors across 180+ countries covering 1,000+ languages and dialects. Every meaningful contributor action — microphone access, voice submission, environmental measurement — is immutably recorded on-chain via the Peaq Network, creating a tamper-proof consent audit trail aligned with GDPR and the EU AI Act. Quality is enforced through a proprietary three-layer pipeline combining AI-driven automated scoring, native-speaker peer review, and internal expert review, with a reputation/trust system tracking validator and contributor accuracy over time.

The core product set comprises (i) off-the-shelf multilingual voice and audio datasets (500,000+ hours per the website; 250,000+ hours per the June 2026 update), distributed via Hugging Face and a self-serve storefront at ai.silencio.store; (ii) on-demand custom collection scoped to enterprise specifications; and (iii) native-speaker human transcription and data labeling, sold standalone or bundled with datasets. Silencio monetizes through enterprise data licensing, professional services for custom collection, a consumer ad-removal mobile subscription ($1–3.50/month or $6–25/year), a marketplace for Noisecoin redemption, and the $SLC utility token ecosystem on Peaq, which underpins staking, monthly raffles, and contributor rewards.

Silencio serves Fortune 100 companies, frontier AI research labs, and robotics manufacturers building ASR, TTS, voice agents, speech translation, accessibility, voice biometrics, and audio-aware robotics systems. The founders are Thomas W. Messerer (CEO), Eric Thomas Stotz (CPO), and Theo Messerer (COO). The company has raised approximately $5 million in seed funding across two 2024 tranches (February 2024 $1M led by Borderless Capital and Shapes Ventures; December 2024 $2.5M led by Blockchange Ventures), with the community token round reportedly 86x oversubscribed.

Name

Silencio Network LLC

Legal name

Silencio Network LLC

Website

https://silencio.network

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Silencio Network LLC operates a consent-cleared voice and audio data platform that aggregates 2.5M contributors across 180+ countries and 1,000+ languages, licensing multilingual datasets and custom collection services to Fortune 100 companies, frontier AI labs, and robotics manufacturers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Voice Data Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Other Sound Recording Industries (512290)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Audio & Speech Analytics (call analytics, QA, insights) (HDAAAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

On-Device Speech & Audio AI (wake word, ASR, enhancement) (HDAAAJAF)

Keywords

• Voice data infrastructure
• AI training datasets
• Speech data licensing
• Multilingual voice collection
• Human transcription services

Headquarters

HQ city

Wilmington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Voice Data Licensing: Sale of consent-cleared, anonymized multilingual voice datasets to AI companies, robotics firms, and research labs. Off-the-shelf datasets licensed for immediate use or custom collection arranged to spec. Datasets include audio (WAV format), enriched JSON metadata, and expert transcription. Revenue from licensing fees based on volume, language coverage, and exclusivity.
2. Premium App Subscription: Monthly and annual subscription tiers ($1-3.50/month, $6-25/year depending on location) that remove third-party advertisements from the mobile app. Auto-renewing subscriptions processed through Apple App Store and Google Play. Contributors can earn Noisecoins and enter raffles for $SLC token rewards.
3. Silencio Marketplace: Users purchase Sale Codes with Noisecoins to obtain third-party benefits including discounts with retailers and services. Marketplace generates revenue through coin redemption and potential fees on third-party transactions.
4. On-Demand Data Collection Services: Custom voice data collection services where enterprise buyers specify exact requirements: language, dialect, accent, recording conditions, and use case. Silencio mobilizes its contributor network to fulfill scoped data collection projects for a fee.
5. $SLC Token Ecosystem: Native $SLC token serves as decentralized medium of exchange within ecosystem. Tokenomics support staking, raffle rewards, and community incentives. Token holders can stake for rewards via on-chain or in-app mechanisms. Not a revenue stream per se but drives contributor engagement and network value.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Silencio Network LLC operates a voice and audio data infrastructure platform that collects, validates, and licenses consent-cleared multilingual voice and audio data to AI companies, robotics firms, and research labs. The platform leverages a contributor network of 2.5M+ people across 180+ countries covering 1,000+ languages and dialects, delivering off-the-shelf datasets, on-demand custom collection, and native-speaker human transcription for AI model training.

Product overview

Silencio Network LLC operates as a voice and audio data infrastructure company with two primary product lines: (1) Silencio App (Sound Check), a mobile app for measuring environmental noise levels with on-chain consent and a Premium Subscription (ad-free), and (2) Silencio Voice AI, a browser-based voice data contribution platform powering off-the-shelf datasets, on-demand custom collection, and expert human transcription. The network spans 2.5 million contributors across 180+ countries, offering 250,000+ hours of voice data in 1,000+ languages and dialects. The ecosystem includes the $SLC token for community rewards and staking, published on the peaq network, with datasets accessible via Hugging Face.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Silencio Sound Check: The noise-level measurement product that captures decibel readings from users' environments. Raw audio is never recorded, only sound level measurements (dB(A)). The foundational product that established the contributor network.
• Silencio Voice AI
• $SLC Token
• Deep-In Luck Raffle

Products and services

• Silencio Voice AI Browser-based voice contribution platform enabling contributors to record and submit voice data (scripted readings, free speech, commands, live conversations) in 1,000+ languages and dialects. Features on-chain consent, three-layer quality validation, native-speaker transcription with forced alignment, and delivery as model-ready WAV datasets.
• Off-the-Shelf Voice Datasets Pre-collected multilingual voice and audio datasets licensed to AI developers, voice AI companies, and enterprises. Structured by language, region, accent, demographic, and use case. Includes 250,000+ hours of voice data across 150+ languages with 5,000+ hours added daily, available on Hugging Face.
• On-Demand Custom Data Collection Custom voice and audio data sourced to specification across 1,000+ languages and dialects in 180+ countries. Buyers specify requirements and Silencio delivers structured data in days in the buyer's preferred format.
• Human Transcription & Data Labeling Native-speaker transcription with code-switching support and multi-stage QA, built for languages where machine transcription fails. Includes forced alignment with word-and-phoneme-level timestamps. Available as a standalone service for buyers who bring their own audio.
• Silencio App (Sound Check) Mobile app (iOS/Android) for measuring environmental decibel levels and contributing noise data. Collects dB(A) measurements only—no raw audio. Consent captured on-chain, paid in stablecoin (NoiseCoins). Includes Premium Subscription (ad-free) on monthly ($1-3.50) or yearly ($6-25) auto-renewing plans.
• $SLC Token (Staking & Rewards) Native $SLC utility token of the Silencio Network on the peaq network. Used to reward contributors via monthly raffles. Staking options of 3-18 months boost OG bonus for raffle rewards.

Quantifiable outcome

• Voice AI trained on Silencio data can understand the 97% of languages and accents currently unrepresented in AI training datasets
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability9 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core infrastructure.

• Peaq Networkcore infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationProvides blockchain infrastructure for Silencio's on-chain consent verification system. On-chain consent actions are recorded on Peaq Network, enabling immutable audit trails tied to machine IDs and timestamps.
• Particle Networkcore infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationEnables self-custodial wallet creation and sensor account abstraction for contributors. Seed phrases stored securely on device for identity verification during on-chain consent.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)core infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationCloud infrastructure provider powering Silencio's backend. Supports microservices, container orchestration (EKS), database (RDS), file storage (S3), and auto-scaling capabilities.
• Cloudflarecore infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationProvides reverse proxy, DDoS protection, and bot detection for Silencio's web infrastructure. First line of defense filtering malicious traffic before reaching AWS.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Defined.ai: Operates a voice and NLP data marketplace with ethical sourcing and pre-built datasets for AI training. Closest direct competitor to Silencio's enterprise voice-data licensing and custom collection offering.
• Appen: Public data annotation and collection company serving major AI labs with multilingual speech datasets across 100+ languages. Direct peer for Silencio's data licensing and custom collection services at much larger scale.
• Rev: Provides human transcription and captioning services with a gig-economy contributor pool, and sells speech datasets for AI training. Closely comparable model for Silencio's transcription service line and contributor-based supply.
• TranscribeMe: Specialized transcription and multilingual data services company with a distributed contributor network. Comparable to Silencio's human transcription and language-data offering at smaller scale.

Broad incumbents

• Scale AI: Largest AI data labeling platform with broad multimodal coverage including speech/audio. While Scale is a broad incumbent rather than voice-specialized, it competes for the same enterprise AI training-data budgets and increasingly targets audio.
• Speechmatics: Speech recognition company that builds ASR models using internally sourced multilingual training data. Represents the "make vs. buy" alternative for enterprise speech AI buyers — a key competitor to Silencio on the demand side.
• Deepgram: Enterprise speech AI platform with proprietary ASR, TTS, and voice agent products trained on internally curated voice corpora. Comparable as a downstream voice AI buyer/competitor for the same enterprise customers.

Emerging players

• Surge AI: AI-native data labeling platform focused on RLHF and frontier-model evaluation, increasingly expanding into speech/audio. Comparable as a next-generation data infrastructure company targeting frontier AI lab buyers.
• Snorkel AI: Data-centric AI platform focused on programmatic labeling and weak supervision. Adjacent competitor for the enterprise "AI training data infrastructure" budget that Silencio targets.

Others

• Hugging Face: Open AI model and dataset hub that hosts Silencio's published datasets. Acts as a distribution channel and adjacent infrastructure provider rather than direct competitor, but represents a potential alternative marketplace for voice data buyers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/silencioNetwork
• GitHubgithub.com/Silencio-network
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/silencionetwork

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors9 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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

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