Synervoz Communications

Synervoz Communications is a Toronto-based audio software engineering company working in real-time communications, consumer electronics, media and entertainment, and technology. Its work spans voice technologies, voice AI, audio and video streaming, WebRTC, music, digital signal processing, and audio machine learning, delivered across mobile, desktop, web, smart TVs, embedded devices and gaming consoles. The company designs and co-develops applications, SDKs, and new features and products, both building from scratch and joining existing projects that scale to millions of users.

Its flagship product is Switchboard, a cross-platform SDK for audio software development that lets developers build audio engines without working directly in low-level C++ or audio programming. Switchboard supports audio pipelines intended to run consistently across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web, integration of audio processing nodes and AI models, and a no-code/JSON editor for prototyping pipelines in the browser before deployment. A second product, Ronday, is a metaverse building platform providing 3D spaces with multiplayer communication, spatial audio, video and screen sharing, customizable per client.

Synervoz organizes its offerings around six application areas: voice, video and hangouts (voice AI agents, voice-controlled applications, voice and video chat, custom WebRTC, intercom-style communications); music and podcast (listening parties, smart and 3D ducking, synchronized music sharing, karaoke, and integrations with services such as Spotify, Dash Radio, YouTube Music, OBS, Millicast/Dolby.io and Amazon IVS); watch parties, games and social apps (handling noise, echo, voice detection, ducking and spatial audio when voice or video chat is combined with other media); remote collaboration and metaverse (3D virtual office platforms, spatial audio spaces, virtual venues, 2D and 3D collaboration spaces, web-first, Unity or hardware-specific); hardware and embedded (optimization for limited compute, memory and power, plus firmware, middleware and companion app development for headphones, speakers and VR/AR); and pro audio (plugins, high-end devices and digital audio workstations).

Business model

Synervoz combines a productized SDK offering with services work. It licenses Switchboard, a cross-platform audio development SDK, and offers design, co-development, prototyping and engineering engagements in which its teams build apps, SDKs and features either from scratch or alongside existing client engineering organizations. It also operates a venture studio, co-developing projects under various models, and provides strategic advisory including business cases, introductions and the establishment of new companies.

External classification lists recurring and usage-based revenue models with SaaS and API characteristics, alongside services-based engagements such as co-development, prototyping and consulting.

Traction

The company reports having built apps and SDKs from scratch and joined existing projects with hundreds of engineers, scaling to reach millions of users, and states it has collaborated with R&D teams from prototype through production. Third-party data lists approximately 20 employees as of February 2024 and total funding of $1.7 million as of May 2018 at seed stage.