Tongues Translation Services

What Tongues Translation Services does

Tongues Translation Services LLC is a private, Florida-domiciled (Summerfield, FL) media translation company founded in 2021 by Franklin Mayfield (CEO) and Manik Arora (CTO), operating as a B2B platform for AI-powered multilingual media localization. The company's core offering, All-Media Translation, combines machine speech translation, text-to-speech, voice cloning, and lip synchronization with human linguist review across three service tiers (AI Foundation, AI+Human, and Human-Centered). It supports 550+ languages and dialects and one of the largest claimed AI voice inventories in the world with over 4,500 human-sourced voices, delivered via Branded Multi-Language Voice Creation, TTS LipSync PRO, Live and Simulated Live Event Translation Systems, an Embeddable Multi-Language Media Player, and Cloud Translation Encoding.

Underlying technology includes the Real-Time API Series (S2ST, S2TT, S2STT, T2ST) with sub-2-second latency, Postman-documented developer endpoints priced at $0.11/minute, and concurrent-connection subscription packages ($500-$2,000/month). Tongues targets media organizations, religious broadcasters (named customers include TBN, DayStar Television Network, GOD.tv, Canal 99, BetterMan Event, and World Impact TV), and enterprises needing EAA accessibility compliance, with event-driven and direct enterprise sales channels as well as API-first self-serve distribution. The company maintains a Marketing and Sales subsidiary in New Delhi (Tongues Translation Services-India LLP), additional US field offices (Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, New York City, Tulsa, Ocala), and partner integrations with AWS Activate and Postman. Revenue is generated from API subscriptions, usage-based per-minute charges, and project-based professional services; no outside institutional funding is disclosed.

Name

Tongues Translation Services

Legal name

Tongues Translation Services LLC

Website

https://tongues.services

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tongues Translation Services is a Florida-based AI media translation platform founded in 2021 that offers dubbing, captions, lip-sync, voice cloning, and real-time APIs across 550+ languages, serving broadcasters, religious organizations, and developers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Media Translation and Dubbing

NAICS

Postproduction Services and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries (51219), Translation and Interpretation Services (541930), Other Sound Recording Industries (512290)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Dubbing & Voiceover Production (Casting, Recording, Lip-Sync) (MPAHAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Voice Cloning, Dubbing & Audio Generative Media (HDAAAFAK), Machine Translation & Multilingual NLP (HDAAADAD), Multilingual Multimedia Localization (Subtitling, Dubbing, Voiceover) (MPAAANAH), Translation & Transcreation Services (Script/Dialogue Adaptation) (MPAHAFAD)

Keywords

• AI media translation
• AI voice dubbing
• Speech translation API
• Multilingual video localization
• Live event translation

Headquarters

HQ city

Ocala

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. API Subscription & Usage: Monthly subscription packages with concurrent connections (5, 10, 20 connections) plus per-minute usage charges at $0.11/minute. Enterprise pricing available for high-volume customers with social media platforms, large apps, hardware translations, call centers, and medical translation applications.
2. Professional Media Translation Services: Custom project-based services for All-Media Translation including dubbing, subtitling, audio/video translation, branded voice creation, and cloud encoding. Quote-based pricing for large media inventories.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Tongues Translation Services provides AI-powered media translation and dubbing across 550+ languages, including real-time speech-to-speech, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech translation APIs with sub-2-second latency, an AI voice library of 4,500+ voices, and supporting services for live events, simulated live broadcasts, on-demand video localization, branded voice cloning, and accessibility compliance. The company combines machine learning with human linguists and media artists to deliver audio, video, and print localization at scale for TV/film broadcasters, religious organizations, developers, and enterprises needing multilingual media.

Product overview

Tongues Translation Services offers a comprehensive media translation platform with All-Media Translation as the core service, supported by Real-Time API Series for programmatic access, TTS LipSync PRO for lip synchronization, and various add-on modules including Live/Simulated Live Event Translation Systems, Branded Multi-Language Voice Creation, Audio Book Creation, Website Translation & Development, Custom AI Media Services, Metaverse Translated Media, Cloud Translation Encoding, Text-Based Translation Services, and an Embeddable Multi-Language Media Player. The platform covers 550+ languages and dialects with over 4,500 AI voices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Real Time API Series: Speech-based multilingual communication APIs with under 2 second latency for transcription, translation, and speech generation
• TTS LipSync PRO
• Simulated Live Event Translation System
• Live Event Translation System
• Branded Multi-Language Voice Creation

Products and services

• All-Media Translation Complete media localization service covering audio (lip-sync, dubbing, multi-channel mixing, audio effects), video (graphics, text, captions, credits, lower thirds), and music (lyrics translation, AI Voice Singing, mixing and mastering) for broadcasters, content creators, and publishers needing multilingual media.
• Real-Time API Series Programmable speech-based multilingual communication APIs (Speech-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Speech-to-Speech-and-Text, and Text-to-Speech-Translation) with sub-2-second latency, supporting WAV, M4A, MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, G.711, G.722, Speex, and Opus inputs, for developers and enterprises integrating real-time translation into apps, call centers, metaverse, and devices.
• TTS LipSync PRO Premium lip-sync product that applies cinematic-grade AI lip movement to translated or original video, including voice-to-face synchronization, lighting and facial expression matching, and supporting multiple actors for film, TV, and marketing localization projects.
• Live Event Translation System Real-time translation broadcasting system for live events supporting 5 to 100+ languages with HLS, SRT, and RTMP multi-language encoding, streaming to Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and other multi-language aware platforms for global live audiences.
• Simulated Live Event Translation System Service that broadcasts pre-recorded content like live events with support for 5 to 200+ dialects and languages, providing a different voice per speaker in each language and using Branded Multi-Language Voice support for personalities.
• Branded Multi-Language Voice Creation Voice cloning service that creates custom neural voice models from studio-quality recordings so the speaker's voice is preserved while speaking in 60+ native languages, supporting branded voices for media organizations and creators.
• Audio Book Creation in Your Voice Audio book production service that uses the author's branded voice with AI-generated narration, including support for multiple voices, sound effects, and background music for authors and publishers.
• Expert Website Translation and Development Services Full-service website translation and development including front-end (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, single-page applications) and back-end (Node.js, Python, Ruby, .NET, PHP) development, with multilingual SEO optimization for international digital presence.
• Custom AI Media Services Custom AI media solutions using Generative AI, large language models, and large multimodal models for films, documentaries, marketing campaigns, interactive experiences, AI Music, and legacy media modernization.
• Metaverse Translated Media Translation services for metaverse and immersive content covering text (scripts, dialogue), digital layers (dApps, WebXR, UI), and interactive media (games, VR, AR), enabling multilingual metaverse experiences.
• Cloud Translation Encoding Platform Cloud-based translation encoding platform that ingests media from AWS, Azure, Google Drive, Dropbox, FTP, and SFTP, processes any volume of media, and outputs NextGen TV, MP4, HLS, and DASH multi-language formats for worldwide distribution.
• Text-Based Translation Services Text translation across 200+ languages using AI, AI+Human, or Human-Centered approaches for books, brochures, documents, and print media requiring multilingual text localization.
• Embeddable Multi-Language Media Player Customizable, white-label media player supporting VOD playback, captions and subtitles, 4K video, and multi-language audio tracks, ready for CDN distribution and embedding into customer websites and applications.
• European Accessibility Act (EAA) Compliance Services Accessibility compliance services bundling captioning, transcriptions, audio descriptions, sign language interpretation, and multilingual support to help essential service providers meet European Accessibility Act requirements.

Quantifiable outcome

• Live broadcast reaching 30+ nations in 16+ languages simultaneously
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 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

Integration4 records

AI capability8 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Postman API NetworkcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 March 2024Integration of Tongues Translation Services API documentation into Postman API Network, providing developers with comprehensive documentation, code samples in major programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Java), and easy access to Instant, Real-Time, and Precision API Series.
• Christians in Web3 EcosystemminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 May 2023Ecosystem of organizations including Advancing the Kingdom's Vision, BMCFerrell, Catalyst Brand Group, Forum12, GEB America, GEB Asia, Gravity Jack, Kingdom Warriors, Oral Roberts University, and Orchard focused on leveraging Web3 and AI technologies for Christian ministry.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Papercup: AI dubbing service for video content with human review. Competes in the same AI+human media dubbing workflow that Tongues offers, with overlap on broadcast and OTT buyers.
• ElevenLabs: AI voice synthesis and dubbing platform offering multilingual TTS, voice cloning, and dubbing APIs. Closest direct competitor to Tongues on AI voice inventory scale, multilingual reach, and developer/API distribution.
• Deepdub: AI dubbing and localization platform purpose-built for film/TV/streaming. Direct overlap with Tongues' media dubbing and lip-sync value proposition, targeting the same studio and broadcaster buyers.
• Dubverse: AI dubbing and video translation platform with API access for media localization. Comparable to Tongues in targeting multilingual video localization with subscription and API-based pricing.

Emerging players

• Camb.ai: AI voice and dubbing platform focused on multilingual media translation. Overlaps with Tongues on speech-to-speech translation and voice cloning for media workflows.
• Resemble AI: Voice cloning and speech synthesis platform with a developer API. Comparable on branded voice creation and real-time TTS, though smaller in media-specific dubbing tooling.
• Rask AI: AI video dubbing and localization platform with voice cloning. Direct overlap on video dubbing, AI voice cloning, and multilingual expansion capabilities targeted at media buyers.

Broad incumbents

• Synthesia: AI video generation with multilingual voiceovers for corporate/training video. Tangentially adjacent — comparable buyer use case (multilingual video for enterprises) but Tongues is more translation/dubbing-centric.
• Speechmatics: Enterprise speech recognition and translation provider. Overlaps with Tongues on the speech-to-text/translation API layer, but does not position primarily as a dubbing/media localization company.
• Veritone: AI platform for media and broadcasters including voice, dubbing, and translation services. Overlaps with Tongues in serving broadcast/media customers with AI-driven audio and translation tooling.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TonguesServices
• Facebookfacebook.com/tongues.services
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tongues-translation-services

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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