Twelve people teaching AI how to sound human.
Aivox is built by engineers, linguists and audio designers who think speech is still the most under-designed interface there is. Here's who's behind it.
Text-to-speech got good enough to be useful and boring enough to be forgettable. We started Aivox to put the person back in synthetic speech — the pause, the breath, the accent that tells you where someone's from.
The people
The team building Aivox — voice, engineering, and everyone in between.
Sakthivinash Balu
Founder & CEO
Leads Aivox's vision of turning every business phone line into a reliable AI-powered voice employee — one that answers, understands and acts, 24/7.
Kokila Sivakumar
Co-founder & CTO
Architects the core voice infrastructure that lets Aivox agents listen, understand caller intent, and respond in real time.
Sudha Sivakumar
Head of Partnership
Builds the relationships that bring Aivox's voice agents into new businesses and industries.
Abinayaa Panduragam
Head of Linguistics
Shapes how Aivox agents understand and speak, so every conversation sounds natural and true to the business it represents.
Rajalakshmi Ramesh
Lead ML Engineer
Builds and trains the speech and language models behind Aivox's real-time call understanding.
Deva Dharshini Sundaramurthy
Lead Product Designer
Designs the Aivox experience — from agent setup to call dashboards — so businesses can configure a voice agent without needing to be technical.
Sweetha Sundar
Audio Engineer
Fine-tunes every voice response so Aivox agents sound clear, natural and easy to talk to on a real phone call.
Harish Gopinath
Security Engineer
Protects caller data, call recordings and business information across the Aivox platform.
Surya Ravichandran
Head of Marketing
Tells the story of how Aivox helps businesses stop missing calls and start capturing every opportunity.
Kwame Boateng
Head of QA
Tests every call flow so Aivox agents answer correctly, escalate safely, and never leave a caller stuck.
Amara Osei
Backend Engineer
Keeps calls routing correctly at 2am, every night, without anyone noticing.
Rakesh Ravi
Customer Success Lead
The first Aivox voice most customers ever hear is the one she trained.
The habits behind the product
Not values on a wall — the three trade offs we actually make when a feature, a hire, or a launch is on the table.
Speech first
We design for the ear before the eye. If a feature only makes sense on a screen, we push back on it.
Ship what you'd use
A voice doesn't ship until the whole team has argued, out loud, about whether it actually sounds right.
Small team, wide reach
Twenty-two people, eight languages. We stay small on purpose and let the work travel instead.