✨ The vision Turning the world’s conversations into data 💡 Overview oto is a voice data platform that captures real-world conversations through a wearable device and smartphone app. It turns speech into structured data to fuel AI. Users of major languages get personalized services like task automation and health insights. Speakers of underrepresented languages or accents can earn by contributing data. Like Google Trends for speech, oto aims to map how the world talks—securely and at scale. 😣 Problem There is a global shortage of voice data for AI training. - Out of approximately 7,000 languages worldwide, voice AI supports only around 150—meaning 98% of languages remain unsupported. - Even in major languages like English, speech models still perform poorly with accents and dialects. - Voice AI systems are still unable to engage in human-level natural conversation. All of these limitations stem from a fundamental lack of high-quality, diverse training data.