About
Sanas builds a real-time Speech AI platform spanning accent translation, language translation, speech enhancement, noise cancellation, and speech intelligence. It sells primarily to global enterprises, contact centers, and BPOs, with customers including Fortune 100 companies; its differentiation is patented, low-latency speech processing designed to remove communication barriers while preserving natural voices and emotions.
Market
Sanas competes in the enterprise real-time Speech AI and contact-center voice communication market, positioning itself as a speech layer that makes conversations between people and systems clear, natural, and scalable. It differentiates through real-time accent modulation, voice-preserving translation across 25+ languages, and noise cancellation designed to preserve voice, tone, intent, and conversational authenticity.
Sanas primarily targets enterprise contact centers and globally distributed customer-facing teams that need clearer multilingual communication. Its likely buyers are contact-center, customer-experience, and enterprise operations leaders seeking to improve agent clarity, customer interactions, and workforce performance at scale.
At a Glance
Problem
Sanas addresses a persistent communication problem in global customer-support operations: accented speech, language gaps, background noise, and poor audio can cause customers and agents to misunderstand one another. In contact centers, that friction shows up as repeated questions, interruptions, transfers, call abandonment, longer average handle times, lower customer satisfaction, and accent bias against agents. It also creates hiring, training, and retention pressure because agents may be judged on how they sound rather than on their ability to solve customers’ problems.
The clearest use case is an offshore or multilingual contact center serving customers in another region—for example, Philippine agents supporting U.S. customers. Sanas’s technology is intended to make those conversations clearer without requiring agents to change their natural voices or undergo expensive, permanent accent training. The company links the resulting clarity to fewer repetitions and shorter calls, higher CSAT, better first-call resolution, lower churn, and improved agent retention; its TP customer story reports a 22% CSAT increase and a 37.5% reduction in average handle time.
Product / Service
Sanas is a real-time Speech AI platform whose original flagship product, Accent Translation, changes how an accent is heard while preserving the speaker’s voice and emotion. Its patented speech-to-speech AI and neural-network processing operate with minimal perceptible delay, so the conversation remains fluid rather than sounding like a separate interpretation step. The platform has expanded to include Language Translation, Noise Cancellation, Speech Enhancement, Speech Intelligence, and a developer platform. Language Translation is designed to preserve each speaker’s voice, tone, and emotion while carrying meaning, context, and industry terminology across languages.
The product is delivered for enterprise communications through a desktop application, SDK, or API, with on-device processing and compatibility with contact-center and CRM environments. Sanas positions it as a low-lift deployment that requires no call-flow, workflow, or agent-behavior redesign; its stated benefit is faster implementation and clearer, more productive conversations at scale. Noise Cancellation is also offered under a free-forever model, while Accent Translation and the broader enterprise platform are positioned for contact centers, global enterprises, and developers.
Market
Sanas competes in real-time Speech AI for contact centers and enterprise communications, initially in accent conversion and now in the broader category of speech understanding, enhancement, and translation. Krisp is an explicitly identified competitor, while Sanas has also described InTone as a competitor; adjacent alternatives include voice-noise and speech-clarity products such as IRIS Clarity and CrystalSound. Sanas’s differentiation is the combination of accent translation, language translation, voice preservation, noise cancellation, and enterprise deployment rather than a single-purpose transcription or conferencing tool.
The company is clearly beyond the pre-revenue stage on the available evidence. Sanas’s own timeline says adoption grew from 5,000 contact-center agents across 25 cities in 2023 to more than 30,000 agents and then surpassed 750,000 users globally, alongside a $32 million Series A and a $65 million Series B in 2025. A third-party company-data profile reported $50 million in ARR, 45 customers, and 295 employees as of February 2, 2026. Its TP deployment reports measurable operational outcomes, and its strategic relationships include major contact-center operators such as Teleperformance and Alorica.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
General Catalyst, DN Capital, Human Capital, Quiet Capital
Insight Partners
Not publicly disclosed
Quadrille Capital
Recent News
At CCW 2026, Sanas announced expanded Universal Accent Translation and Language Translation capabilities for its speech AI platform.
Sanas highlighted real-time accent translation designed to preserve a speaker’s voice, tone, and intent, alongside noise-cancellation capabilities.
Sanas announced that Accent Translation became available on its Chrome Extension, with additional Sanas products planned for subsequent release.
Sanas announced its acquisition of Tomato.ai, expanding its real-time voice IP and platform integrations; Tomato.ai co-founder Ofer Ronen joined Sanas’s executive team.
Sanas expanded its platform to support real-time speech-to-speech translation across more than 13 languages with minimal latency.
Sanas reported a federal court win defending its Speech AI patents, emphasizing its efforts to protect its technology and global communications platform.
Sanas published a customer story describing TP’s efforts to improve communication clarity, expand talent accessibility, and increase operational efficiency across key regions using Sanas.
Two Stanford students partnered with Sanas on an 8kHz audio-watermarking prototype that the company says outperformed industry benchmarks.
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14Business Model
Sanas operates primarily as a B2B, subscription-based Speech AI software business, selling enterprise and contact-center capabilities on a seat-based model to companies and BPO partners. Noise Cancellation is offered as a free product, while the broader accent translation, language translation, speech enhancement, and platform offerings provide the likely paid revenue streams.
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Key Investors
Insight Partners; Quadrille Capital; Google Ventures; Human Capital