# Async

> Async, formerly Podcastle, is a subscription and usage-based AI creation company that combines remote recording, audio and video editing, generative media, voice cloning, publishing tools, and a low-latency Voice API. Its bet is that creators, teams, and developers would rather direct a connected workflow than shuttle files among specialized apps.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Artavazd (Arto) Yeritsyan (Founder and CEO)
- **Products:** Article-to-audio Chrome extension, Async Creator Platform, Async Voice API, Bumblebee
- **Notable:** Won Product Hunt's Golden Kitty Award in 2021., Won a Webby Award in the Creative Production category in 2022., Was described by the company as a G2 Overall Market Leader in 2023.

## Products & services

- **Article-to-audio Chrome extension** — The original product converted written articles into podcast-like audio, exposing demand for simpler audio creation.
- **Async Creator Platform** — A web and iOS studio for remote multitrack recording, audio and video editing, transcription, enhancement, captions, voice cloning, generation, repurposing, and publishing.
- **Async Voice API** — Developer APIs for low-latency text-to-speech and speech-to-text, with streaming delivery, timestamps, WebSockets, multilingual output, and voice cloning from a short sample.
- **Bumblebee** — The chat-based AI Video Editor experience, with Ask and Act modes, visible plans, parallel generations, negative prompts, and task-specific Skills.

## Achievements

- Won Product Hunt's Golden Kitty Award in 2021.
- Won a Webby Award in the Creative Production category in 2022.
- Was described by the company as a G2 Overall Market Leader in 2023.
- Raised $13.5 million in a Series A led by Mosaic Ventures in 2024.
- Expanded the Creator Platform with access to more than 100 AI models in 2026.
- Async Flash v1.5 took a leading quality-versus-price position in an Artificial Analysis TTS benchmark in June 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Podcastle rebranded as Async, uniting a creator studio and developer Voice API under one name.
- **2026-02** — Async introduced a chat-based, agentic workflow for audio and video production.
- **2026-03** — The platform added more than 100 models for video, images, avatars, music, and sound effects.
- **2026-06** — Async Flash v1.5 received a leading low-price quality position on the Artificial Analysis TTS benchmark; Async Pro v1.0 also became available on fal.
- **2026-07** — Bumblebee launched in the Video Editor with faster chat, parallel generation, visible plans, Ask and Act modes, and Skills.

## Links

- Website: https://async.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/async-platform
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Async_platform
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@async_platform
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/async_platform
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/async.platform
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@async_platform

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Last updated: 2026-09-26