He Left His Corporate Job to Join the Dutch Voice AI Startup Taking On Big Tech · Reson8

Full Reson8 profile → https://startup.career/startups/reson8 Reson8 thinks speech recognition shouldn't only work well in English. Its answer is its own models, built for the long tail of European languages. The Amsterdam company is barely a year old. Its first model, Resonant-1, is the most accurate in French, Dutch, Spanish and Polish, ahead of OpenAI's Whisper, and then it also cracked English: it went straight to number one on Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard, ahead of companies with many times its money and people. It transcribes an hour of audio in about three seconds. We spent a day with founder Raoul Ritter and Founding GTM Floris Bienfait. Raoul explains why a Slovenian doctor should be understood as well as an American one. Floris talks about leaving Adyen after nearly six years to build the commercial side of an early-stage startup. The team is small, things change week by week, and on most days there are "seven raging fires in the room". We look at the technology, the work, and what it is like to join this early.