Phonic

Phonic is the first speech-to-speech voice agent platform designed to deploy voice agents that function as reliably as humans. It leverages proprietary audio foundation models to enable natural, conversational interactions without the limitations of traditional cascaded voice systems. The platform addresses critical pain points in legacy voice agents, including poor comprehension, inability to understand emotions, high latency, and inadequate conversation handling. The platform is built for enterprise use, offering sub-300ms latency for speech-in-to-speech-out interactions, conversational voice quality, and secure containerized deployment. It includes a system of record for searchable customer interaction logs, real-time observability across millions of agents, and automated evaluation capabilities to identify common failure patterns. Phonic was founded by MIT graduates Moin Nadeem and Nikhil Murthy, backed by prominent investors including the co-founders of Hugging Face, Replit, Applied Intuition, Modal, and Contextual AI.