Phonic launches speech-to-speech model Phonic-1, raises $27.5M Series A
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-30
- Phonic introduced Phonic-1, a speech-to-speech model for agentic tasks that tops the Artificial Analysis Speech to Speech Index with the highest task success rate at the lowest latency.
- It also announced a $27.5M Series A led by First Round, with Lux Capital, Felicis, and Definition participating — $31.5M total raised.
- Key pitch: cascaded ASR→LLM→TTS stacks lose tone and pauses; Phonic-1 is end-to-end and can take action while the caller is still talking. The team has spent two years reworking data, pre-training, RL, kernels, and infrastructure.
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