EzDubs

Real-time speech translation

Y CombinatorWinter 2023AcquiredConsumerGenerative AIAPITelecommunicationsAI

What they do

Problem

People and teams who speak different languages struggle to communicate naturally and in real time across calls, voice messages, and chats.

Solution

EzDubs provides real-time speech translation that streams translations without waiting for full sentences while cloning the speaker’s voice and emotions across languages in phone calls, voice messages, and text conversations.

Who it's for

Individuals and businesses (including distributed teams) who need to communicate across languages.

Founders

Padmanabhan (Paddy) Krishnamurthy

Founder

Building EzDubs: real-time speech translation. Acquired by Cisco in 2025.

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Amrutavarsh Kinagi

Founder

ML researcher and co-founder of EzDubs, building real-time speech translation for live, expressive conversations. Holds an MSCS degree from Columbia (Speech AI researcher) and a BS from HKUST in CS + Math. Previously co-founded Helen AI, an award-winning lip-reading tool for the hearing impaired (HKUST President’s Cup, IET YPEC, Runner-up Dyson Award Hong Kong). Led HKUST robotics work on autonomous systems (Runner-up, ROBO-ONE Japan; 1st Class Award, NXP Cup 2018).

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