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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Soniox.\n\nKlemen Simonic is founder and CEO of Soniox, which builds speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation models covering more than 60 languages. An engineer and AI researcher, he has worked on speech and language systems since 2008, with work spanning Stanford University, Google and Meta.\n\n## What Klemen builds\n\n- [Soniox Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt.md), graded C, 58.2/100, in Speech-to-text. One multilingual model family for 60+ languages, as a real-time WebSocket API (`stt-rt-v5`) and an async file API (`stt-async-v5`). Co-founder, Soniox, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Soniox Text-to-Speech](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-tts.md), graded B, 63.7/100, in Text-to-speech. Streaming and REST text-to-speech (`tts-rt-v2`) in 60+ languages, where every voice speaks every language. Co-founder, Soniox, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Soniox Voice Cloning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-voice-cloning.md), graded C, 58.6/100, in Voice cloning \u0026 custom voices. Instant clones for Soniox TTS from one reference clip of up to 2 minutes, made in the Console or with `POST /v1/voices`. Co-founder, Soniox, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Ambroz Bizjak](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ambroz-bizjak/), Co-founder, Soniox\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Klemen Simonic?\n\nKlemen Simonic is founder and CEO of Soniox, which builds speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation models covering more than 60 languages. An engineer and AI researcher, he has worked on speech and language systems since 2008, with work spanning Stanford University, Google and Meta.\n\n### What does Soniox make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Soniox Speech-to-Text, Soniox Text-to-Speech and Soniox Voice Cloning from Soniox. One multilingual model family for 60+ languages, as a real-time WebSocket API (stt-rt-v5) and an async file API (stt-async-v5).\n\n### How are Klemen's tools graded?\n\nSoniox Speech-to-Text is graded C, 58.2 out of 100; Soniox Text-to-Speech is graded B, 63.7 out of 100; Soniox Voice Cloning is graded C, 58.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://soniox.com/about\n- https://soniox.com/\n- https://soniox.com/contact\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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