Audio Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A way to convert audio files into text files. The startup wants to help make it easier for people to collaborate on content with audio.

2,345

5 years ago

A tool that simplifies the process of turning a Kindle book into an audiobook.

581

3 years ago

A text-to-speech app that translates text into any language, then sends the audio to a bank of speakers with deep learning built into the app.

513

2 years ago

A startup that helps users with their collections of videos, books, audiobooks, and other digital media by providing recommendations.

356

5 years ago

A startup that brings a book to life by adding illustrations and audio.

255

4 years ago

This startup is building a new way to work that allows you to quickly create a virtual meeting room for your team (with audio, video, and other features) and then broadcast it to whoever is interested.

240

4 years ago

An audio platform for artists and labels to sell and distribute music and audio-visual content to customers.

193

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for the blind to get quality audio books

172

3 years ago

Low-cost, low-overhead video conferencing, made possible by software that sends the video through the internet rather than over a traditional phone line, is a key factor in bringing remote workers to a company. This startup is building software for companies to use to host audio and video calls.

172

5 years ago

A “shareable” version of Microsoft Word, with a story, an audio component, and a visualization component.

162

5 years ago

A set of tools for publishing and managing digital media like video and audio.

161

4 years ago

A software platform that allows producers to create, edit, and distribute videos, audio, photos, and text.

160

5 years ago

A system that helps people who are blind assess the quality of their phone’s audio.

155

5 years ago

A social network for the deaf, modeled after its popular iPhone app. The company has expanded its offerings to include audio versions of the app for the deaf and hard of hearing.

154

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to transcribe your audio and video interviews

152

5 years ago

A “digital marketplace for used books and audiobooks” that allows users to find and buy books in their community of interest.

152

5 years ago

A company that provides a platform for people to create podcasts and audio-books.

152

4 years ago

A platform for online video production that allows users to add audio, video, and text to their videos.

152

5 years ago

A company that wants to build a way to understand the meaning of phone calls (through audio) and help courts make educated decisions on them.

149

3 years ago

A digital time capsule for the family. Families can upload photos, video, audio, and text of the family, and then give it to their descendants for a later date.

147

4 years ago

A platform for creating and publishing podcasts, automatic transcribed interviews, and other audio-only content, made for consumption on Apple’s podcast player iRadio.

146

5 years ago

A platform for small businesses to create online communities that offer live and on-demand video and audio conferencing.

141

2 years ago

A LBS product meant to help blind people navigate the world, and has more than 50,000 users. It’s a smartphone app that uses audio changes of traffic sounds to detect obstacles ahead and helps guide users to their destination.

137

5 years ago

A text-to-speech service for the blind that uses the Amazon Echo to convert written words to audio. WordBlind uses a technology called "on-the-fly" speech synthesis to convert text to audio that sounds like the original.

135

5 years ago

A platform for recording live audio and video shows.

130

5 years ago

A way for users to contribute content in the form of photos, audio, video to the existing photo sharing app.

125

3 years ago

Podcasts are a booming business, but the way they are produced – with people in their bedrooms – can’t scale. AudioBoom claims to change that.

125

5 years ago

A startup that creates a new kind of smart home audio experience Their idea is to create a “high quality, yet affordable, audio experience”

124

4 years ago

A platform for organization and management of music and audio on a mobile device for the blind and visually impaired

122

5 years ago

A gaming and entertainment company that builds audio and video streaming MMORPGs for connected devices.

120

5 years ago

A tool that allows people to create, edit, and manage their own podcasts. It’s a tool for podcasters and anyone else who wants a place to publish audio content.

118

5 years ago

A photo app for capturing and sharing memories that includes a suite of features like either a video or still image capture, an audio track, and even a filter that lets you add music.

113

5 years ago

A startup for companies that want to run their own video and audio conferencing system for internal meetings

111

5 years ago

A tool to help coaches create and share videos. They can also use it to record conversations and audio into a video.

111

4 years ago

A live chat audio software for call centers.

105

5 years ago

A tool for scheduling “marathon” meetings, with video and audio conferencing.

104

3 years ago

A product that allows consumers to collect and share their life’s moments in the form of text, audio, video, and pictures. The company claims they’re the first company to blend AI-driven software, powerful hardware, and mobile-friendly design to create a stand-alone action camera, the Zing Camera.

102

4 years ago

A wearable for the visually impaired, which uses machine learning to convert a video of the world, like a restaurant or a landscape, into an audio guide.

99

4 years ago

A tool for businesses to create and distribute their own branded podcasts, video and audio content, and digital marketing materials.

98

4 years ago

A startup that aims to make podcasting more accessible and easier to use with services like audio-only versions

98

5 years ago

A digital assistant for the home, bringing together control of lighting, audio, and security into one platform, along with a series of smart gadgets.

96

3 years ago

A collaborative editing software that allows you to edit video and audio files simultaneously in real-time.

96

4 years ago

A mobile app that creates, share, and edit a variety of different categories, including photos, videos, and audio, in the cloud.

95

4 years ago

A tool for audio signal processing that can help vocalists learn new notes faster, with a similar approach to techniques used in speech therapy.

91

4 years ago

A calendar app that pays people to listen to the audio version of their day.

89

4 years ago

A tool helping people make an audio track of their life, from a single instrument, so they can share that with their friends and family.

86

3 years ago

A company that makes an AI-powered platform for blending and remixing audio.

85

4 years ago

A $1 million seed round for a company building a platform for people to create and manage their own audio and video recordings while they’re on the go.

82

4 years ago

A tool to record your phone’s audio, transforming it into a human voice recording with natural-sounding intonation.

82

3 years ago

A network of real-time, high-quality audio recordings of presidential speeches, for use in classrooms, research, and other purposes.

81

4 years ago

A startup that helps you be a better listener. A podcast-focused app that allows users to listen to a podcast or podcast episode on their phone, and then scroll over text to see what was said, or share the audio with someone else.

79

4 years ago

A platform for all kinds of digital content, including video, audio, and images. It’s a content delivery network (CDN) built on a blockchain.

78

3 years ago

A platform to help businesses track, monitor, and sell their employees’ video and audio recording usage, and set fair prices for usage. The startup is in closed beta with an early, working version, and is currently live in the Los Angeles area.

74

3 years ago

A personalized recommendation service that can track over 25,000 movies, TV shows and audio books.

74

4 years ago

A startup that allows you to create, manage, and share your own audio and video podcasts. The startup wants to compete with the likes of Anchor and Pocket Casts by making it easy for the average user to create a podcast.

72

4 years ago

A tool for recording audio conversations with text transcripts.

71

4 years ago

A digital audio recorder and mixer that lets you record and mix music for your video project.

71

3 years ago

A tool for making video, software, and audio calls from a mobile phone.

71

4 years ago

A tool for building media apps that uses the power of machine learning to find the best stock photos and audio clips. It’s a spinoff of the startup that develops the core infrastructure for sites like Pinterest, SoundCloud and Twitter.

70

4 years ago

A company that makes “verticality” as easy as possible. They’re building a platform for organizing and sharing content with verticality, like video and audio. It works as a video editor and a video sharing platform.

66

4 years ago

A startup that helps retailers increase their online sales. It’s a marketplace that connects businesses with a network of independent content producers who sell e-books, audiobooks and other digital products.

66

4 years ago

A Q&A platform that transcribes audio conversations to text and vice versa, so users can have conversations with friends and family over voice technology.

66

3 years ago

A company that allows people to securely share video and audio with family and friends, then download the video or audio directly to their phone.

66

3 years ago

A web-based platform that makes it easy to record and edit audio.

66

3 years ago

An AI assistant for the home. It can read emails and book flights, answer questions about sports and politics, and even transcribe audio.

66

3 years ago

A tool for managing your own collection of audio and video interviews, which are then made available to your clients.

65

3 years ago

A startup that creates a personal library of books and audio files, and then creates a podcast about the book or audio that it is hosting.

64

3 years ago

This startup is building a way for people to listen to their favorite podcasts, music and audiobooks in the car. It’s the only car audio system that can also process voice commands from Siri.

63

3 years ago

A startup that merges the video chat and voice chat on Skype, allowing users to have voice audio on any video.

60

2 years ago

A way to collaborate with others on an audio recording, which is then sent out to the world. It’s a combination of Google Music and Skype.

60

4 years ago

A platform for the visually impaired. The app translates text into an audio reading of that text, with the readout played on a phone’s loudspeaker. While the smartphone app is free to download, the smartphone’s loudspeaker is not.

59

3 years ago

You know how it’s hard to get those 15 minutes of exercise you’ve been promising yourself Your phone’s always in your pocket, and you’re always distracted. The app uses a combination of motion-activated sensors and beautiful audio prompts to keep you working toward your goals.

59

3 years ago

This startup makes a video platform that has been used by the likes of the New York Times, the New Yorker, Huffington Post, Wired, and more. The company is looking to expand beyond video to audio and still images.

59

3 years ago

2. A tool for converting a phone’s microphone and recording into a digital audio file.

57

3 years ago

The startup is building a language course that uses text-to-speech technology and audio technology to teach languages.

55

4 years ago

A company that provides a mobile device that allows healthcare workers to connect and communicate with patients in real time via text, video, and audio.

54

3 years ago

Verbalize is an AI/natural language processing tool that can convert text into audio files, and then convert audio files into text.

54

3 years ago

A video delivery platform for video creators. Through the platform, you can upload and share videos, embed videos, and embed audio. The platform is designed to encourage sharing of all types of video, be it a cat video or a corporate video.

52

3 years ago

A digital video recorder that records only the audio from TV shows and movies. The device features a rotating disc with a microphone on top and a speaker on the bottom. It connects to the HDMI port on a TV.

52

3 years ago

An audio platform for e-learning, teaching voice recognition to its users through an app that looks like a walkie-talkie.

52

2 years ago

A startup that crowdsources sound effects to help filmmakers create realistic audio for their projects.

51

4 years ago

A “very simple and very affordable” tool for sharing photos, videos, and audio files among multiple users.

50

3 years ago

A tool that allows you to take screen recordings on any device, and then upload them to a site where they’re automatically overlayed with a visualization of the device’s audio.

50

3 years ago

A tool to help small business owners manage and track a library of books, ebooks and audio books.

50

3 years ago

A startup that is building a device that can read text messages in the blind and translate them into audio.

49

3 years ago

A human-powered AI that helps you learn languages faster, with a focus on English, Spanish, German, and French. It can be used to learn via text and audio, and the company is currently taking sign up for its beta. The idea is to teach you a language and then try to teach you another one by using the same systems.

49

3 years ago

A way to make it easier for people to share their learning experiences with their friends (and possibly everyone) in a way that’s not just text, but also a video or audio.

48

5 years ago

Idea: A 3D audio startup that is trying to make podcasting more immersive by using binaural audio. The app has a pretty strong take on the future of podcasting, and its founder says that the company is profitable.

47

3 years ago

A startup that wants to provide a platform for content creators to easily manage and monetize their content. Their first product, “Recitations,” helps people create audiocasts with their voice and facial expressions, and their other product, “Sketch”, allows creators to create animated videos using their own drawings and illustrations.

47

3 years ago

A platform that turns your smartphone's microphone into a recording device. The startup hopes to remove the hassle of recording audio, which they say is the most common use case for the app.

46

3 years ago

A startup that makes a “snek”, a device that allows anyone to hook up to the internet, record audio, and send it to anyone.

46

2 years ago

A smart home device that lets you tune and calibrate your home audio system in real-time.

46

2 years ago

A player in the audio streaming space that’s natively able to record, upload, and stream audio and video.

43

2 years ago

A company that provides video conferencing, messaging and audio conferencing services for businesses, including a platform for businesses to record their own video.

40

3 years ago

WebRTC is an open-source project that makes it easy to make peer-to-peer, real-time video and audio communication possible on the web.

38

2 years ago

A cloud-based album management app that lets people manage their music, audio books, and videos from anywhere.

38

2 years ago

A company that commissions audio, video, and photo content to help companies get their brand out there.

37

2 years ago

A startup that combines video and audio recordings of courtroom testimony with data to create a powerful story for a courtroom audience.

37

5 years ago

A startup for freelance designers. The startup has plans to expand to include a wider variety of creative services including programming, video and audio production and web design.

35

2 years ago

A storage service for unstructured data, with a focus on the video and audio industries.

35

2 years ago

A startup called Bizbit that offers a next-generation communications tool for people who don’t have phones. It allows users to text photos, videos, and audio directly to each other, all via a simple web interface.

31

2 years ago

A company specializing in “second-screen” content that brings video content to an audio-only TV like Apple TV or Roku.

30

2 years ago

A tool that lets you quickly and easily record and share your ideas. The startup built a way to record audio and take notes on the fly.

29

2 years ago

An iOS app that allows users to find nearby places to buy, sell, and trade audio equipment.

29

2 years ago

A company that provides tools for managing digital files (like photographs, text, and audio)

28

5 years ago

Idea: Instant audio recording via simple push-to-talk app

27

2 years ago

A content discovery platform that lets users find articles in a variety of formats, like text, audio, video, slideshows, and white papers.

20

2 years ago

A product that uses the power of artificial intelligence to analyze your voice and generate a detailed report about your health, including an audio report.

19

5 years ago

Idea: A platform to send short audio clips with a text message The startup wants to make texting more like talking

9

2 years ago

A company that wants to be the Amazon of electronic accessories. It offers a one-stop shop for everything from home electronics to car audio. The startup has been running a profitable business for years, but is now growing rapidly and expanding its market into the European market.

8

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to be the “Kayak of digital audio”, helping you sift through the noise and find the perfect song

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Audio Startup Ideas

A way to convert audio files into text files. The startup wants to help make it easier for people to collaborate on content with audio.

A tool that simplifies the process of turning a Kindle book into an audiobook.

A text-to-speech app that translates text into any language, then sends the audio to a bank of speakers with deep learning built into the app.

A startup that helps users with their collections of videos, books, audiobooks, and other digital media by providing recommendations.

A startup that brings a book to life by adding illustrations and audio.

This startup is building a new way to work that allows you to quickly create a virtual meeting room for your team (with audio, video, and other features) and then broadcast it to whoever is interested.

An audio platform for artists and labels to sell and distribute music and audio-visual content to customers.

Idea: A startup for the blind to get quality audio books

Low-cost, low-overhead video conferencing, made possible by software that sends the video through the internet rather than over a traditional phone line, is a key factor in bringing remote workers to a company. This startup is building software for companies to use to host audio and video calls.

A “shareable” version of Microsoft Word, with a story, an audio component, and a visualization component.

A set of tools for publishing and managing digital media like video and audio.

A software platform that allows producers to create, edit, and distribute videos, audio, photos, and text.

A system that helps people who are blind assess the quality of their phone’s audio.

A social network for the deaf, modeled after its popular iPhone app. The company has expanded its offerings to include audio versions of the app for the deaf and hard of hearing.

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to transcribe your audio and video interviews

A “digital marketplace for used books and audiobooks” that allows users to find and buy books in their community of interest.

A company that provides a platform for people to create podcasts and audio-books.

A platform for online video production that allows users to add audio, video, and text to their videos.

A company that wants to build a way to understand the meaning of phone calls (through audio) and help courts make educated decisions on them.

A digital time capsule for the family. Families can upload photos, video, audio, and text of the family, and then give it to their descendants for a later date.

A platform for creating and publishing podcasts, automatic transcribed interviews, and other audio-only content, made for consumption on Apple’s podcast player iRadio.

A platform for small businesses to create online communities that offer live and on-demand video and audio conferencing.

A LBS product meant to help blind people navigate the world, and has more than 50,000 users. It’s a smartphone app that uses audio changes of traffic sounds to detect obstacles ahead and helps guide users to their destination.

A text-to-speech service for the blind that uses the Amazon Echo to convert written words to audio. WordBlind uses a technology called "on-the-fly" speech synthesis to convert text to audio that sounds like the original.

A platform for recording live audio and video shows.

A way for users to contribute content in the form of photos, audio, video to the existing photo sharing app.

Podcasts are a booming business, but the way they are produced – with people in their bedrooms – can’t scale. AudioBoom claims to change that.

A startup that creates a new kind of smart home audio experience Their idea is to create a “high quality, yet affordable, audio experience”

A platform for organization and management of music and audio on a mobile device for the blind and visually impaired

A gaming and entertainment company that builds audio and video streaming MMORPGs for connected devices.

A tool that allows people to create, edit, and manage their own podcasts. It’s a tool for podcasters and anyone else who wants a place to publish audio content.

A photo app for capturing and sharing memories that includes a suite of features like either a video or still image capture, an audio track, and even a filter that lets you add music.

A startup for companies that want to run their own video and audio conferencing system for internal meetings

A tool to help coaches create and share videos. They can also use it to record conversations and audio into a video.

A live chat audio software for call centers.

A tool for scheduling “marathon” meetings, with video and audio conferencing.

A wearable for the visually impaired, which uses machine learning to convert a video of the world, like a restaurant or a landscape, into an audio guide.

A tool for businesses to create and distribute their own branded podcasts, video and audio content, and digital marketing materials.

A startup that aims to make podcasting more accessible and easier to use with services like audio-only versions

A digital assistant for the home, bringing together control of lighting, audio, and security into one platform, along with a series of smart gadgets.

A collaborative editing software that allows you to edit video and audio files simultaneously in real-time.

A mobile app that creates, share, and edit a variety of different categories, including photos, videos, and audio, in the cloud.

A tool for audio signal processing that can help vocalists learn new notes faster, with a similar approach to techniques used in speech therapy.

A calendar app that pays people to listen to the audio version of their day.

A tool helping people make an audio track of their life, from a single instrument, so they can share that with their friends and family.

A company that makes an AI-powered platform for blending and remixing audio.

A $1 million seed round for a company building a platform for people to create and manage their own audio and video recordings while they’re on the go.

A tool to record your phone’s audio, transforming it into a human voice recording with natural-sounding intonation.

A network of real-time, high-quality audio recordings of presidential speeches, for use in classrooms, research, and other purposes.

A startup that helps you be a better listener. A podcast-focused app that allows users to listen to a podcast or podcast episode on their phone, and then scroll over text to see what was said, or share the audio with someone else.

A platform for all kinds of digital content, including video, audio, and images. It’s a content delivery network (CDN) built on a blockchain.

A platform to help businesses track, monitor, and sell their employees’ video and audio recording usage, and set fair prices for usage. The startup is in closed beta with an early, working version, and is currently live in the Los Angeles area.

A personalized recommendation service that can track over 25,000 movies, TV shows and audio books.

A startup that allows you to create, manage, and share your own audio and video podcasts. The startup wants to compete with the likes of Anchor and Pocket Casts by making it easy for the average user to create a podcast.

A tool for recording audio conversations with text transcripts.

A digital audio recorder and mixer that lets you record and mix music for your video project.

A tool for making video, software, and audio calls from a mobile phone.

A tool for building media apps that uses the power of machine learning to find the best stock photos and audio clips. It’s a spinoff of the startup that develops the core infrastructure for sites like Pinterest, SoundCloud and Twitter.

A company that makes “verticality” as easy as possible. They’re building a platform for organizing and sharing content with verticality, like video and audio. It works as a video editor and a video sharing platform.

A startup that helps retailers increase their online sales. It’s a marketplace that connects businesses with a network of independent content producers who sell e-books, audiobooks and other digital products.

A Q&A platform that transcribes audio conversations to text and vice versa, so users can have conversations with friends and family over voice technology.

A company that allows people to securely share video and audio with family and friends, then download the video or audio directly to their phone.

A web-based platform that makes it easy to record and edit audio.

An AI assistant for the home. It can read emails and book flights, answer questions about sports and politics, and even transcribe audio.

A tool for managing your own collection of audio and video interviews, which are then made available to your clients.

A startup that creates a personal library of books and audio files, and then creates a podcast about the book or audio that it is hosting.

This startup is building a way for people to listen to their favorite podcasts, music and audiobooks in the car. It’s the only car audio system that can also process voice commands from Siri.

A startup that merges the video chat and voice chat on Skype, allowing users to have voice audio on any video.

A way to collaborate with others on an audio recording, which is then sent out to the world. It’s a combination of Google Music and Skype.

A platform for the visually impaired. The app translates text into an audio reading of that text, with the readout played on a phone’s loudspeaker. While the smartphone app is free to download, the smartphone’s loudspeaker is not.

You know how it’s hard to get those 15 minutes of exercise you’ve been promising yourself Your phone’s always in your pocket, and you’re always distracted. The app uses a combination of motion-activated sensors and beautiful audio prompts to keep you working toward your goals.

This startup makes a video platform that has been used by the likes of the New York Times, the New Yorker, Huffington Post, Wired, and more. The company is looking to expand beyond video to audio and still images.

2. A tool for converting a phone’s microphone and recording into a digital audio file.

The startup is building a language course that uses text-to-speech technology and audio technology to teach languages.

A company that provides a mobile device that allows healthcare workers to connect and communicate with patients in real time via text, video, and audio.

Verbalize is an AI/natural language processing tool that can convert text into audio files, and then convert audio files into text.

A video delivery platform for video creators. Through the platform, you can upload and share videos, embed videos, and embed audio. The platform is designed to encourage sharing of all types of video, be it a cat video or a corporate video.