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Dollyglot

Character.AI with real time video avatars

Y CombinatorWinter 2025ActiveConsumerGenerative AIConsumerSocialConversational AI

What they do

Problem

People lack engaging, lifelike and interactive ways to converse with characters or personas in real time.

Solution

Dollyglot lets users create and talk to real-time video avatar characters generated from a photo and a voice.

Who it's for

Consumers who want interactive conversations with virtual characters or personalized AI companions.

Founders

Thomas Minassian

Founder

CEO Dollyglot. Dollyglot is like Character.Ai but with real-time avatars. Turn a photo and a voice into a real friend. With Dollyglot, you could speak with Harry Potter about Hogwarts or brainstorm ideas with Elon Musk! Our team Built Parler-TTS Mini Multilingual, the world's first fully multilingual open-source text-to-speech model.

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Paul-Henri Biojout

Founder

CTO Dollyglot. Dollyglot is like Character.Ai but with real-time avatars. Turn a photo and a voice into a real friend. With Dollyglot, you could speak with Harry Potter about Hogwarts or brainstorm ideas with Elon Musk! Our team Built Parler-TTS Mini Multilingual, the world's first fully multilingual open-source text-to-speech model.

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