Speech Matters works on the awkward last mile of expertise: turning good ideas, spoken in a second language, into words that colleagues can act on.
BoldVoice is a New York-based AI speech and accent coaching app that helps non-native English speakers communicate more clearly and confidently. It pairs proprietary speech AI that gives instant, phoneme-level pronunciation feedback with video lessons taught by Hollywood dialect coaches. Founded in 2021 by Anada Lakra and Ilya Usorov, the app has passed five million downloads across 150+ countries and crossed $10M in annual recurring revenue with a small team.