Graham Gullans

COO at @modulate_ai || Prev Founder (2x exits), VC at @engineventures || Angel Investor and Founder of Empire Angels

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

Very excited to announce the worlds first audio-native understanding model.

[Kaitee @KaiteeShiks]

Everyone keeps trying to force LLMs to do voice understanding.

it's like printing out an email to read it.

technically works. completely misses the point.

this startup took a different bet entirely.

@modulate_ai spent years training Velma on 550M hours of raw audio - no transcript step, no LLM in the middle.

just layers of raw signal.
hesitation, sarcasm, vocal stress, emotion, intent. 150+ behaviors detected in real time.

it's already the engine running inside Call of Duty and GTA Online.

and it just quietly ended up #1 on the conversation understanding benchmark.

above GPT-5.
above @Gemini.
above @Grok.

at 10x lower cost.

a small team just rewrote the rules of voice AI. barely anyone's noticed yet.

the API just opened. and they're givng away 1000 free credits: https://t.co/nE6T9cBYLA

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@modulate_ai Just tested the API. Very cool.

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@aakashgupta This is great. Finally a model that detect audio signals

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@modulate_ai This seems like it’s way better than transcription!

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@OpenAI Exciting announcement. However, real-time transcription at $0.017 per minute is not competitive. @modulate_ai offers real-time streaming transcription at $0.06 per hour or 17x lower cost than OpenAI

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@Jason I’m in

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@nkerzman @VaibhavSisinty @modulate_ai Yes, 100% @modulate_ai's Speech-to-text has all the technical requirements of every other transcription API out there, but its much cheaper. Then, once you have the transcribed text, you'd use a TTS API

[Modulate @modulate_ai]

@xai just dropped their new speech-to-text API.
They say it’s “lowest cost.”

It’s not.
It’s 3.3x more expensive than Velma Transcribe 👇

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@mussabur @VaibhavSisinty @modulate_ai Correct, 57+ languages plus all their dialects

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@_thinx @VaibhavSisinty @modulate_ai Hi @_thinx We'll have the ability to support 5k+ concurrent connections for STT in ~1-2 weeks. DM me and I'll send you more details! We have a few customers running at 1K concurrent connections now and increasing it to 5k+ scaling very soon!

[Michael Pappas @mpappas74]

@xai didn't kill the whole voice AI industry - just kicked the corpses of the old guard. @modulate_ai prices STT at $0.03/hr (way cheaper!), has full support for emotion + deepfake detection and 50+ languages, and leads on WER for real-world audio. Validate it for yourself with >300hrs free - https://t.co/tcpkKVMz2G

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@mpappas74 @elonmusk @xai @modulate_ai @modulate_ai's Streaming STT API costs $0.06 per hour, not $0.20 like Grok's

Give it a try

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@modulate_ai @huggingface Deepfakes cost <$1 to make but detection is so expensive . I’m happy this API exists

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@nijokestu @modulate_ai @huggingface #1 Model in the world for Deepfake Detection. 100x lower cost. A no brainer

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@arifgpt @modulate_ai @huggingface #1 Model in the world for Deepfake Detection. 100x lower cost. A no brainer

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@Aria_Nawi @modulate_ai @huggingface #1 Model in the world for Deepfake Detection. 100x lower cost. A no brainer

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@SarahAnnabels #1 Model in the world for Deepfake Detection. 100x lower cost. A no brainer

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@ErickSky @modulate_ai #1 Model in the world for Deepfake Detection. 100x lower cost. A no brainer

[Graham Gullans @CapeCodderGolf]

@hasantoxr @huggingface @modulate_ai #1 Model in the world for Deepfake Detection. 100x lower cost. A no brainer