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Ava

AI-powered real-time captioning for accessibility

Machine Learning Scientist

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Île-de-France, France
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About the job

Requirements
  • You have more than 3 years of research experience in machine learning, including deep learning.
  • Experience in speaker identification, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, acoustic modeling, language models, or source separation is a plus.
  • You should be persistent, open-minded, and collaborative, with an ability to reason independently.
Responsibilities
  • Reinvent voice recognition to understand real-world conversations and address the cocktail-party problem.
  • Process signals acquired through an array of ad-hoc microphones to determine who says what using source localization, voice recognition, microphone calibration, speech recognition, and source separation techniques in real time.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in speaker identification, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, acoustic modeling, language models, or source separation.

About the company

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Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$16.4M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2014

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What believers are saying

  • On 2026-06-23, Ava restored real-time caption editing inside its Desktop mini-app.
  • On 2026-09-03, Ava added Danish language support and expanded international reach.
  • Ava's 2024-12-17 Series A funded US and European team expansion.

What critics are saying

  • Ava still depends on 2024 Series A money; no fresh 2026 financing appears.
  • Ava's podcast-platform lawsuit fights entrenched giants whose legal budgets dwarf its own.
  • If Zoom, Google, and Apple commoditize captions, Ava's subscription model collapses by 2026.

What makes Ava unique

  • Ava combines AI captions with human Scribe support, reaching 99% accuracy.
  • Its captions span Zoom, Meet, desktop, mobile, web, and in-person conversations.
  • Ava targets Deaf accessibility across schools, workplaces, and hospitals, not generic meeting notes.

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PR Newswire
Apr 18th, 2023
Disrupting The Future Of Accessibility, With Anthony Franklin

Anthony Franklin. . There's a stigma around getting an accommodation. People are afraid to say, I need this tool to be productive at work. So they don’t. They just suffer

TechCrunch
May 6th, 2022
Ava Sets The Example For Universal Live Captioning And Raises $10M To Keep Building

When we last checked in with AI-powered captioning service Ava, they had just raised a seed round and it was six months into a pandemic that would reshape how we all work together. 18 months later they have investors banging on their door following huge growth, and aim to keep showing the tech industry how []

Axios
May 4th, 2022
Live caption company scores $10M

Ava sees an opportunity to serve the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

Hospital Management
Sep 13th, 2021
Ava launches COVID-19: Rapid Early Detection

Concept: American startup, Ava has announced the launch of COVID-19: Rapid Early Detection (COVID-RED) clinical trial, the first study of its kind to test whether a wearable device can detect a COVID-19 infection in real-time and alert people to get tested or self-isolate before showing symptoms.