Carnegie Mellon spinout Voci will use the money to bolster sales and marketing activities.

Voci Technologies, a US-based language processing spinout from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), closed an $8m series B round on Monday co-led by venture capital firms Grotech Ventures and Harbert Growth Partners.
Founded in 2006, Voci has developed artificial intelligence and deep learning-based speech recognition technology that helps companies improve their customer-facing operation.
The technology boasts speech-to-text transcription and voice analytics capabilities, and can extract details such as gender, sentiment, emotion and speaker biometrics. Voci claims it can process…