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AI · January 20, 2026

Modulate Velma Preview

Velma: Beyond transcripts, into true understanding.

Modulate Velma Preview launched on January 20, 2026 with 3 votes, #5,632 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

Introducing Velma — the only voice-native Ensemble Listening Model designed to understand human speech in all its depth and nuance. Velma’s ELM architecture coordinates specialized AI models to reveal deeper audio insights and the underlying signals behind them, making results easy to explain and verify. Our Velma Preview allows anyone to test out a limited version of Velma with their own audio!

Introducing Velma — the only voice-native AI model designed to understand human speech in all its depth and nuance.

Modulate helps enterprises including Fortune 500 companies understand over 20 million minutes of voice per day. With Velma, our customers can improve their customer experiences, reduce risks such as fraud and harassment, detect rogue agents, and much more. Velma uses Ensemble Listening Model (ELM) technology to outperform foundation models, like LLMs, on accuracy and cost across multiple benchmarks. Velma is the #1 AI model for understandingfrom preview.modulate.ai

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