Founder of a listed tool
Hammad Syed
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Hammad builds
PlayHT Text-to-Speech API F · Text-to-speech
Discontinued text-to-speech API from PlayHT, formerly supporting streaming audio and batch generation.
Co-founder; LinkedIn lists COO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
PlayHT Voice Cloning API F · Voice cloning & custom voices
Discontinued PlayHT service for creating voices from uploaded audio samples.
Co-founder; LinkedIn lists COO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Mahmoud Felfel Co-founder; LinkedIn lists CEO
Questions
Who is Hammad Syed?
Hammad Syed is a co-founder of PlayAI, formerly Play.ht, a voice AI company building conversational voice models, from Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch, which YC now lists as acquired. He was previously a software engineer and product person at OLX, where he met his co-founder Mahmoud Felfel.
What does PlayAI (formerly PlayHT) make?
Anchor Terminal lists PlayHT Text-to-Speech API and PlayHT Voice Cloning API from PlayAI (formerly PlayHT). Discontinued text-to-speech API from PlayHT, formerly supporting streaming audio and batch generation.
How are Hammad's tools graded?
PlayHT Text-to-Speech API is graded F, 4.1 out of 100; PlayHT Voice Cloning API is graded F, 4.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/playai
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/syed-hammad-ahmed/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/syed-hammad-ahmed
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoud-felfel/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoud-felfel
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/play-ai
- https://x.com/play_ht
- https://docs.play.ht/docs/http-streaming-endpoints
- https://discord.com/invite/ZGganaStFq
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