EXCLUSIVE: Voice-synthesis outfit Neosapience has closed an $11.5M funding round and said it will invest more in “emotionally intelligent” and conversational AI voice services ahead of an expected IPO. The injection of funds will also allow the company to boost its localization efforts, working in a variety of languages beyond its core of English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese.

The company is gearing up for a public offering on the Korea Stock Market, which is expected to happen by the end of next year. Its key product is Typecast, and it claims the platform’s USP is being able to discern and assign human emotions from a script without extensive prompts or pre-records.

Neosapience is based in Seoul, Korea, and San Francisco. It said Typecast can analyze any script an

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