Liva AI recently launched!

Launch YC: Liva AI – Real Voice & Video Data for AI

"Liva AI provides real voice and video data for developing realistic AI."

TL;DR: Liva AI provides high-quality human voice and video datasets for companies building realistic AI models. Real data sourced in-house across diverse languages, emotions, and contexts.

Ask

Talk to the founders if you're a researcher or founder building voice/video generation models. They can help you.

https://youtu.be/PwjTSZRC8XE

Founded by Ashley Mo & Aoi Otani

The Team

The founders have worked on many research projects together since they met 3 years ago.

  • Ashley: Caltech CS dropout. Built an AI model to detect lung disease from cough recordings (@ MIT) and led large-scale data collection initiatives.
  • Aoi: Prev. Harvard Bio/CS. Did ML research in representation learning and image diffusion models. 5+ Publications in ICML, Nature, etc.

The Problem

Companies building voice and video AI models need quality training data to reach human-like performance for models. Scraping has limits and existing datasets lack diversity across accents, emotions, and languages. As AI moves toward human-like interactions like customer conversations, therapy sessions, classroom teaching, or entertainment, models need authentic human expressions that the internet can't supply.

The Solution

Liva collects real, consented human voice and video entirely in-house—no synthetic data or third-party purchases. All content is authentic and rights-cleared. They’re already delivering their voice dataset to a lab training expressive foundation models for voice.

Liva captures diverse accents, emotional range, and varied contexts (sales calls, multi-channel dialogues, expressive monologues, casual conversations, job interviews, and more) with high production quality through crowdsourcing and strategic partnerships.

Learn More

🌐 Visit www.theliva.ai to learn more.
🤝 The founders are asking for introductions to:

• AI labs building or fine-tuning voice, video, and multimodal generation models.

• Companies using or integrating voice/video models.

• Film, audio, and content production companies.

• Researchers working on audio, video, and multimodal generative models.
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Posted 
August 18, 2025
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