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Weitzman: Speechify Simba 3.2 ranks number one globally for quality
“The newest Speechify Simba 3.2 model is ranked number one in the world for quality. Above all the frontier labs, 10 x more affordable and stuff like 11 Labs.”
Weitzman: Speechify holds 94% of the B2C voice agent market
“We have 94% of the B to C voice agents market.”
Weitzman: Speechify's early hires from Apple and Snapchat failed within three months
“We had two people that we hired from Apple and Snapchat, like very legit people. And they messed up the culture of the company. They would leave at 5:30 p.m. They like didn't live and breathe the company. And in the end, both of them quit after three months.”
Weitzman: Speechify engineers must respond to messages within 60 seconds
“And we have a principle even inside of engineering, which is you've got to respond to messages within 60 seconds because you want to unblock people.”
Speechify is among 200 companies testing ads on OpenAI
“We're one of the 200 companies that's provisioned to test ads on OpenAI.”
Weitzman: ElevenLabs inference costs range from $30 to $100 per million characters
“For the like standard model is anywhere from 70 to a hundred bucks. And for the V three fast model, it's like 30 bucks.”
Weitzman: Speechify's Simba 3.2 API costs $10 per million characters
“11 charges 10, a hundred dollars per million characters. The OpenAI model on the benchmarks cost a 196 dollars per million characters. So ours, when we sell it to other B to B companies now, we just launched our API, Simba, 3.2, it costs 10 dollars per million…”
Weitzman: Speechify uploads 1,300 ad creatives daily to testing campaigns
“Every day we upload 1300 to our testing campaigns.”
Speechify's engineering interview tests candidates on using LLM agents to fix code
“A prerequisite is we have like this entrance exam. There's this gigantic code repo that you need to read very fast. You can't read it with your eyes. You have to use AI. You have to use LLMs to ship all the features, and then you get a test at the end, which i…”