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? Would you like to add value to your data by using it again and again?
​Enquire about our services

Got interested?

Shall we make machines work for you?

Sanelius for captioning, respeak and dictation.

Sanelius Web is your tool for automatic captioning. Just upload your file and download automatic captions.

Sanelius for Windows is a re-speak and dictation software that lets you dictate what you would type. It transcribes your speech as you speak. Sanelius was originally developed for The Finnish Broadcasting Company's experts captioning the TV programs. And why not subtitling, too. You could use it to make any typing work more efficient and more convenient.

Who are we then?

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

In automatic and semi-automatic captioning, we have served the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Parliament of Finland, Digital and Population Services Agency, and many Universities, to mention a few. 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.