Our Vision

We work to help voiceless people regain their own, natural-sounding voice.

Our non-invasive silent speech technology will be a breakthrough in speech rehabilitation and beyond.

About us

We are Altavo, the artificial voice company.

We are a medical device startup based in Dresden, Germany. Our guiding star: harnessing the power of machine learning and state-of-the-art sensor technology to improve the lives of people who have lost their voice.

The first group to benefit are patients who have lost their voice box because of tumor surgery, a procedure known as laryngectomy. But there are many more potential applications of our technology, both in speech rehabilitation and in non-medical fields.

Our passion is technology that makes a difference.

We come from many different fields: medical device development & marketing, computer science, artificial intelligence, radio frequency engineering, signal processing, speech technology, linguistics & speech therapy, regulatory affairs, and quality management.

We share one passion: to turn state-of-the-art technologies into products that improve patients’ quality of life.

Our team

Rudolf
von Bünau

CEO / Founder

Timo
Stich

CTO / Founder

Lydia
Allner

Clinical Affairs

Stephanie
Eckert

Head of Regulatory, Clinical and QM

Dominik
Eyerly

Head of Hardware Engineering

Christoph
Hachmöller

Clinical Marketing

Ulrike
Kerrmann

Product Manager

Ivana
Kolar

Executive Assistant

Sebald
Kolb

Quality Management

Paul
Krug

Algorithm Development

Martin
Laabs

Hardware Concepts / Founder

Carsten
Meyer

Head of Software Engineering

Paula
Schreiber

Student Intern

Paul
Schumann

Head of Operations

Keith
Thornton

Firmware Development

Christoph
Wagner

Algorithm Development

Evgeny
Zakutin

Product Design Engineer

Technology

RF sensing lets us see inside the vocal tract.

Our non-invasive sensor technology can detect and characterize silent articulation movement. State-of-the-art deep neural networks have the power to convert these signals into audible speech in real time.

Clinical partners

Prof. Dr. med

Michael
Fuchs

Dr. med.

Bernhard
Lehnert

Prof. Dr. med.

Andreas
Müller

Prof. Dr. med.

Friedemann
Pabst

Ulrike
Sievert

Advisors

Prof. Dr.

Michael
Kaschke

Advisory Board (Chairman)

Sonja
Großmann

Advisory Board (Deputy Chairperson)

Reinhard
Krickl

Advisory Board

Falk
Hartwig

Advisory Board

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Peter
Birkholz

Scientific Advisor

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Dirk
Plettemeier

Scientific Advisor

Grant Projects

TU Dresden collaboration
We have a broad technology partnership with the Chair of Speech Technology and Cognitive Systems and the Chair of Radio Frequency and Photonics Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden.

SEMECO-B3/MUSIK
Our joint project SEMECO-B3 Multi-sensor non-invasive voice prosthetics using AI (“MUSIK”) is supported by a grant by the State of Saxony and co-funded by the European Union. In this project we are working on multi-sensor technology; clinical feasibility studies; antenna, energy management and manufacturing concepts; as well as QM and regulatory aspects of AI-based medical devices. Thereby we are exploring the technological basis for future developments in the area of voice prosthetics.

Investors

OCCIDENT

Novalis Biotech

Saxonia Systems Holding

TUDAG TU Dresden AG

High-Tech Gründerfonds

bm|t

Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen

and others …

Contact us

We would like to hear from you.

Interested in joining our team, collaborating, or partnering with us? Send us a note.

Our Vision

About us

Our passion is technology that makes a difference.

Our team

Rudolfvon Bünau

TimoStich

LydiaAllner

StephanieEckert

DominikEyerly

ChristophHachmöller

UlrikeKerrmann

IvanaKolar

SebaldKolb

PaulKrug

MartinLaabs

CarstenMeyer

PaulaSchreiber

PaulSchumann

KeithThornton

ChristophWagner

EvgenyZakutin

Technology

Clinical partners

MichaelFuchs

BernhardLehnert

AndreasMüller

FriedemannPabst

UlrikeSievert

Advisors

MichaelKaschke

SonjaGroßmann

ReinhardKrickl

FalkHartwig

PeterBirkholz

DirkPlettemeier

Grant Projects

Investors

Contact us

Rudolf
von Bünau

Timo
Stich

Lydia
Allner

Stephanie
Eckert

Dominik
Eyerly

Christoph
Hachmöller

Ulrike
Kerrmann

Ivana
Kolar

Sebald
Kolb

Paul
Krug

Martin
Laabs

Carsten
Meyer

Paula
Schreiber

Paul
Schumann

Keith
Thornton

Christoph
Wagner

Evgeny
Zakutin

Michael
Fuchs

Bernhard
Lehnert

Andreas
Müller

Friedemann
Pabst

Ulrike
Sievert

Michael
Kaschke

Sonja
Großmann

Reinhard
Krickl

Falk
Hartwig

Peter
Birkholz

Dirk
Plettemeier