the people
Kova was started by Ryan Reszetnik, Carl Machaalani, Henri-Charles Machalani, and Olivier Déry-Prévost
Kundan Kumar advises us. He co-founded Lyrebird, wrote the MelGAN paper, and leads research at OpenAI. We’re backed by Machalani Ventures and Eugene Joannides, and we build out of Montréal.
Ryan ReszetnikCo-Founder
Carl MachaalaniCo-Founder
Henri-Charles MachalaniCo-Founder + Executive Chairman
Olivier Déry-PrévostFounding AI Scientist
the work
Today, using AI mostly means typing at it. That’s slow, and text strips out the tone and timing your voice carries. Voice is the better interface, if you can make it fast and human enough.
That last part is the hard one. Most voice AI is laggy or robotic, and it falls apart the second a conversation gets real. That’s an engineering problem, and it’s the one we care about most.
Right now that’s Kova TTS, speech for AI agents fast enough to use in a live conversation. Kova Voice Agents and Kova OS, an operating system you can talk to, come next.