Welcome!
Ääni Company's Automatic Speech Recognition Services 
make meaningful sound and speech accessible, understandable and actionable. Would you like to do that?

Ääni means sound, voice, tone, noise and audio in Finnish.
We are the digital signal processing craftsmen making sense of speech and sound.
We offer commissioned research, tailored solutions and service design.
Be it Automatic Speech Recognition, Sound Recognition or alike, let us know of your need!

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Speech-to-text API

We offer real-time Automatic Speech Recognition in English and Finnish. We can deliver through an API or we can tailor an island system for you. We also tailor  Speech Recognizers to our customers' applications. On-premise or cloud, your choice.

Re-speak & Dictation

We do offer a generic dictation and re-speak  solution for general language in Finnish and can do other languages too. With this you can boost your everyday productivity. It can be any office work, dictation, transcription, captioning or subtitling. Let us know your need!   
Read more in Finnish.

Audio & Video Search

Are the biggest audio and video pearls buried and lost in your archive? You can use our audio and video search service, Kirstu to find them whenever you need them. Would you like to add value to your data by using it again and again? Just type a word spoken there.
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Got interested?

Shall we make machines work for you?

Sanelius for respeak and dictation, Kirstu for search.

Sanelius is a re-speak and dictation software that lets you dictate what you would type. It transcribes your speech as you speak. The Finnish Broadcasting Company's experts use Sanelius for captioning. And why not subtitling too. You could use it to make any office work more efficient and more convenient. Sanelius works with any application on a Windows PC.

Kirstu audio and video search keeps your treasures for you. It helps you find your pearls. Just type a word and you will find where that word was spoken in your archive. When you throw your file into Kirstu, it is automatically transcribed for  you and made searchable by word. Just like that. You can concentrate on what you will do with the material.

Who are we then?

Accessibility, equal opportunity, functioning democracy, ethical and sustainable conduct and citizenship are signposts that we follow and believe in.

In re-speak captioning, we are trusted by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. Our services help captioning for the hard-of-hearing.

Ääni Company's roots are in a number of Finnish Universities. We operate and tailor our speech recognizers to our customers' needs, to their benefit.

Janne Räsänen
M.Sc (acoustics), MBA
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Experienced growth business leader as well as product and service developer and leader. My heart pumps to improving quality of life by bridging technology and human needs. Goes without saying, in a customer focused manner. Work history in global tech business.

Kalle Palomäki
​PhD, Docent
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One of the leading Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech tech researchers in Finland. Repertoire also includes brain research, sound recognition, pedagogics and startups. Work history in Aalto University, University of Sheffield and a little tour near Silicon Valley at ICSI of UC Berkeley.