Queen’s University Belfast speech recognition technology spinout Liopa is working on a product that analyses lip movements to provide more robust analysis in noisy environments.
Liopa, a UK-based speech recognition technology spun out of Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), has closed a seed round of undisclosed size, Irish News reported today.
Venture capital fund Fund Twenty8 EIS provided the capital along with unnamed angel investors. The round was arranged through equity crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom and Liopa reportedly raised two-and-a-half times of its original target within four weeks.
Founded in 2015, Liopa has devised a machine learning-powered technology called LipReed that enhances conventional audio recognition…
