EzDubs
Winter 2023 · Active
Real-time speech translation
Location: San Francisco, US
Founded: 2022
Team size: 6
About
Founders
Padmanabhan (Paddy) KrishnamurthyFounder
Building EzDubs: real-time speech translation. Columbia MS CS (thesis on cross-lingual speech synthesis), HKUST BS in CS + AI (Distinguished Student Researcher, President's Cup Winner, Best Final Year Thesis), ex-Visiting Researcher at USC Interaction Lab, ex-ML at Webex (zero-shot voice cloning), GGCS 2019 runners-up (ML for autonomous ocean cleaning robots) Previously built Helen, an award winning wearable camera that lipreads using AI (James Dyson Award 2019, IET PATW 2019).
Amrutavarsh KinagiFounder
ML researcher and co-founder of EzDubs, building real-time speech translation for live, expressive conversations. Holds an MSCS degree from Columbia (Speech AI researcher) and a BS from HKUST in CS + Math. Previously co-founded Helen AI, an award-winning lip-reading tool for the hearing impaired (HKUST President’s Cup, IET YPEC, Runner-up Dyson Award Hong Kong). Led HKUST robotics work on autonomous systems (Runner-up, ROBO-ONE Japan; 1st Class Award, NXP Cup 2018).