Voysis raises $8 million to help it become the Twilio of voice AI

Voice-powered artificial intelligence is not something that's easy to set up for just any business, even if it might have real benefits in terms of driving sales or improving customer experience. Voysis is a startup that wants to change that, with an AI platform that can parse natural language input, and that works effectively in specific domains including e-commerce, entertainment and more. Voysis doesn't want to be Siri or Alexa – it wants to the perfect shop assistant, or the extremely insightful video store clerk. "Voysis is a complete voice AI platform," explained Voysis founder and CEO Peter Cahill in an interview. "What I mean by that is that the platform enables companies and businesses to rapidly stand up their own artificial intelligences that can be queried by voice or text."