Our Vision
We help voiceless people regain an individual, natural sounding voice.
Our non-invasive silent speech technology will be a breakthrough in speech rehabilitation and beyond.
We are Altavo, the artificial voice company.
We are a medical device startup based in Dresden, Germany. Our guiding star: harnessing the power of machine learning and state-of-the-art sensor technology to improve the lives of people who have lost their voice.
The first group to benefit are patients who have lost their voice box because of tumor surgery, a procedure known as laryngectomy. But there are many more potential applications of our technology, both in speech rehabilitation and in non-medical fields.
We come from many different fields: medical device development & marketing, computer science, artificial intelligence, RF engineering, signal processing, speech technology, linguistics & speech therapy, regulatory affairs, and quality management.
We share one passion: to turn state-of-the-art technologies into products that improve patients’ quality of life.

Rudolf is a physicist by training. Formerly with ZEISS, he has 20+ years of experience in medical device innovation and marketing. His specialty: co-creating product concepts with clinicians and patients.

Timo is a computer scientist and AI technologist. At Nvidia and ZEISS, he gathered 15+ years of experience in machine learning and the hardware it runs on. His specialty: turning AI magic into real-world products.

Falk studied computer science at TU Dresden. Having built R&D organizations at Agfa and ZEISS, he has 15+ years of experience in SW management. His specialty: building teams that let people thrive.

Stephanie is a regulatory affairs specialist with a mechatronics background. She has built and led medical device RA teams for 12+ years. Her specialty: removing any (real or imagined) regulatory obstacle.

Dominik is an electrical engineer by training. He has 10+ year experience developing RF hardware and software at National Instruments and Konrad. His specialty: getting the design „just right“.

Sebald is a seasoned quality manager with a degree in mathematics. He has 16+ years of QM leadership experience for medical software. His specialty: designing processes that make QM painless.

Martin is an electrical engineer with 10+ years of experience in RF electronics. He has designed things that fly to Mars and things that travel through the human body. His specialty: thinking „outside the box“.

Lydia is a clinical speech scientist. As a certified therapist, she has 6+ years of experience working with patients with speech and language disorders in clinicial setings. Her specialty: putting patients first in everything we do.
RF sensing lets us see inside the vocal tract.
Our non-invasive sensor technology can detect and characterize silent articulation movement. State-of-the-art deep neural networks have the power to convert these signals into audible speech in real time.



Supervisory board chairman: KIT, Carl Zeiss Meditec (honorary)
Supervisory board member: Robert Bosch, Henkel, Ottobock



We are collaborating closely with TU Dresden.
We have a broad technology partnership with the Chair of Speech Technology and Cognitive Systems and the Chair of Radio Frequency and Photonics Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden.
Our joint project “Promise-AI” is supported by a research grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
and others …
We would like to hear from you.
Interested in joining our team, collaborating, or partnering with us? Send us a note.