# Hammad Syed

> Hammad Syed is co-founder; LinkedIn lists COO. PlayHT Text-to-Speech API and PlayHT Voice Cloning API on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder; LinkedIn lists COO.

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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/syed-hammad-ahmed

## What Hammad builds

- [PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts.md), graded F, 4.1/100, in Text-to-speech. Discontinued text-to-speech API from PlayHT, formerly supporting streaming audio and batch generation. Co-founder; LinkedIn lists COO, researched 2026-10-27.
- [PlayHT Voice Cloning API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning.md), graded F, 4.1/100, in Voice cloning & custom voices. Discontinued PlayHT service for creating voices from uploaded audio samples. Co-founder; LinkedIn lists COO, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Mahmoud Felfel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/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

- 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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