Speech shouldn't stop where language does.
Speech shouldn't stop where language does.
Speech shouldn't stop where language does.
Kotoba brings together researchers, engineers, and builders working at the frontier of generative AI to make real-time speech translation widely accessible.
Building on deep research in large-scale language models and speech systems, we develop speech AI for natural communication across languages, with particular expertise in East Asian languages.
Kotoba brings together researchers, engineers, and builders working at the frontier of generative AI to make real-time speech translation widely accessible.
Building on deep research in large-scale language models and speech systems, we develop speech AI for natural communication across languages, with particular expertise in East Asian languages.
Meet the founders
Co-Founder, CEO
Noriyuki Kojima
Co-Founder, CEO
Noriyuki Kojima
Co-Founder, CEO
Noriyuki Kojima
Noriyuki holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. His research focuses on natural language processing, computer vision, and large language models.
He received the Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2022 and co-founded the LLM Fugaku project, a cross-institutional initiative in Japan using the Fugaku supercomputer.
Previously worked at Facebook and Hugging Face. Fellow of the Masason Foundation.
Co-Founder, CTO
Jungo Kasai
Co-Founder, CTO
Jungo Kasai
Co-Founder, CTO
Jungo Kasai
Jungo holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and was an Assistant Professor at TTIC (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago). He's a leading NLP researcher whose work is widely cited and published at top conferences. Previously interned at Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, and the Allen Institute for AI. Recipient of the Best Paper Award at NAACL 2022. Fellow of the Masason Foundation and Funai Overseas Scholarship.
Help us build a borderless world
We're always on the lookout for talented technical people to help us develop frontier speech AI technology
Help us build a borderless world
We're always on the lookout for talented technical people to help us develop frontier speech AI technology
San Francisco, USA
Headquarters
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Kotoba Tecnologies, Inc.
ADDRESS
Levi’s Plaza, 1160 Battery St Suite 100, San Francisco
CA 94111, USA
Levi’s Plaza, 1160 Battery St Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
INCORPORATION
July 2023
Tokyo, Japan
Operations
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Kotoba Technologies Japan K.K.
ADDRESS
Otemachi Building 6F, 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-0004, Japan
Otemachi Building 6F, 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004, Japan
INCORPORATION
October 2023
