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

Timo
Stich

CTO

Falk
Hartwig

COO

Lydia
Allner

Clinical Affairs

Stephanie
Eckert

Regulatory Affairs

Dominik
Eyerly

Hardware R&D

Ulrike
Kerrmann

Product Manager

Sebald
Kolb

Quality Management

Paul
Krug

Algorithm Development

Martin
Laabs

Advanced Development

Carsten
Meyer

Head of Software

Keith
Thornton

SW Development

Christoph
Wagner

Algorithm Development

Evgeny
Zakutin

Laboratory 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.

Advisors

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Peter
Birkholz

Prof. Dr.

Michael
Kaschke

Dr. med.

Bernhard
Lehnert

Prof. Dr. med.

Andreas
Müller

Prof. Dr. med.

Friedemann
Pabst

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Dirk
Plettemeier

Partners

We are collaborating closely with TU Dresden.

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.

Our joint project “Promise-AI” is supported by a research grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Our joint project “MUSIK” is supported by a research grant from Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB).

Investors

High-Tech Gründerfonds

Saxonia Systems Holding

Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen

TUDAG TU Dresden AG

High-Tech Gründerfonds III GmbH & Co. KG

Saxonia Systems Holding GmbH

Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen Basic GmbH & Co. KG

TUDAG TU Dresden AG

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

FalkHartwig

LydiaAllner

StephanieEckert

DominikEyerly

UlrikeKerrmann

SebaldKolb

PaulKrug

MartinLaabs

CarstenMeyer

KeithThornton

ChristophWagner

EvgenyZakutin

Technology

Advisors

PeterBirkholz

MichaelKaschke

BernhardLehnert

AndreasMüller

FriedemannPabst

DirkPlettemeier

Partners

Investors

Contact us

Rudolf
von Bünau

Timo
Stich

Falk
Hartwig

Lydia
Allner

Stephanie
Eckert

Dominik
Eyerly

Ulrike
Kerrmann

Sebald
Kolb

Paul
Krug

Martin
Laabs

Carsten
Meyer

Keith
Thornton

Christoph
Wagner

Evgeny
Zakutin

Peter
Birkholz

Michael
Kaschke

Bernhard
Lehnert

Andreas
Müller

Friedemann
Pabst

Dirk
Plettemeier