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AI-driven text-to-podcast start-up lands £270k investment
A Bristol-based start-up that turns written content into podcasts using AI has landed £270,000 from seed stage investor SFC Capital.
The funding will be used to grow the team and further build out Aloudable’s platform for producing professional podcasts and audio training material.
For knowledge businesses, audio has become one of the most effective ways to engage clients and educate employees.
But, says Aloudable, creating it has always been expensive, slow, and hard to scale because the magic of great audio isn’t just clear sound; it’s chemistry.
The natural back-and-forth that makes podcasts and conversations compelling is exactly what traditional production demands, and what AI has struggled to capture.
Aloudable’s models securely clone a client’s voice and recreate the real chemistry they have in person, making it possible to generate audio that feels alive, engaging and authentic – at scale.
“We’re excited to back Aloudable’s work on next-generation AI-generated conversations and audio,” said Ed Stevenson, principal at SFC Capital.
“The podcast and audio space is still rapidly growing in the UK and globally and we expect to see accelerated growth as generative audio unlocks more and more new content.
“In Aloudable we see a unique opportunity to back a company that is revolutionising such a large, and potentially untapped, market segment.”
William Nash, the founder of Aloudable, said: “Podcasts and conversations captivate us because of the chemistry between people – it’s what makes them memorable, engaging and powerful.
“Yet that very quality has made audio costly, difficult, and almost impossible to scale.
“We’re building AI that can securely recreate that chemistry at scale, unlocking a new era of audio for knowledge businesses that want to truly connect with their audiences.”
