Saudi’s Wittify raises $1.5 million pre-seed to construct Arabic-native AI brokers for cellular, net, and phone facilities 

Wittify.ai, a Riyadh-headquartered AI startup, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding from Saudi angel buyers. The startup didn’t share the precise particulars of buyers however has instructed MENAbytes that the buyers embody excessive internet price people (HNWIs) from Alrajhi, Alsowayan, and Alateeq households. The corporate develops AI brokers for Arabic-speaking markets with proprietary speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities.

Based in 2024, Wittify operates from workplaces in Riyadh, Dubai, and Cairo. Its platform, now stay in beta, lets companies deploy AI brokers that combine into workflows and deal with voice, textual content, or multimodal interactions throughout cellular apps, web sites, and phone facilities.

The startup’s expertise contains Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Textual content-to-Speech (TTS) techniques skilled on greater than 25 Arabic dialects. The platform makes use of a no-code interface that permits companies to construct and deploy AI brokers with out technical experience.

Wittify CEO Nader El-Batrawi who brings over 20 years of worldwide enterprise expertise, commenting on the event, stated, “Our objective is to empower organizations with AI that doesn’t deal with Arabic as an afterthought, however as a core language, whereas additionally enabling multilingual excellence at scale.”

Dr. Sarah Alhumoud, the co-founder and Chief AI Officer of the corporate, stated, “By leveraging top-tier worldwide AI fashions and mixing it with our proprietary Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Textual content-to-Speech (TTS) techniques — skilled to deal with the huge richness of greater than 25 totally different Arabic dialects — we’re enabling companies to create brokers which are actually human-like, native, and culturally clever.”

She beforehand led AI initiatives at King Salman’s Advanced for the Arabic Language, holds a PhD from the College of Glasgow, and accomplished postdoctoral analysis at MIT.

The corporate at the moment serves enterprise and authorities shoppers, although it didn’t disclose particular buyer names. It’s at the moment a part of three accelerator applications within the Kingdom: inspireU from stc, MISK Entrepreneurship Basis in partnership with Plug and Play, and TikTok’s Blossom Accelerator.

The Saudi startup plans to make use of the funds for product improvement, regional enlargement throughout MENA markets, and continued funding in Arabic speech applied sciences.

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