Rime raises $24M Series A and launches Coda, a conversational voice model trained on real human dialogue
dr_cintas · x · 2026-09-13
Voice AI company Rime announced its Coda conversational voice model along with a $24M Series A round.
- Differentiated training data: Coda was trained on real back-and-forth human conversation rather than the audiobook/script-reading audio behind most AI voices, so it sounds far less like it's reading at you.
- Quick start: Developers report generating a natural-sounding voice from the terminal in under 60 seconds, with voice previews available inside Claude Code.
- Scale & control: 600+ voices with adjustable accent, pace, and tone; built by linguists, with multilingual dialect support.
- Production numbers: Customers (Trillet AI, SigmaMind AI) report a 3x latency improvement with Mist v3 on co-located endpoints and sub-100ms TTFB in production, plus on-prem deployment for compliance — targeting banking, healthcare, and food-ordering call scenarios.
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