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Kotoba Technologies, a real time voice AI startup itself, managed to raise another 10 million dollars in a seed extension round, led by Kindred Ventures. There was participation from Salesforce Ventures, and also the Sony Innovation Fund. That makes its total funding 23 million dollars, and it really supports its effort to build voice infrastructure for East Asian languages, you know, for better speech processing in general. Its Koto model supports real time speech to speech, ASR and TTS with low latency across Japanese Korean and Chinese. Also Read: DOCOMO\u2019s AI-Powered Network Automation Marks a New Era for Japan\u2019s Telecom Industry It runs on cloud and on device, targeting AI 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