# Mahmoud Felfel (slim)

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

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Co-founder; LinkedIn lists CEO.

Mahmoud Felfel 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoud-felfel

## What Mahmoud 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 CEO, 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 CEO, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Hammad Syed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hammad-syed/), Co-founder; LinkedIn lists COO

## Questions

### Who is Mahmoud Felfel?

Mahmoud Felfel 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.

### What does PlayAI (formerly PlayHT) make?

Anchor Terminal lists PlayHT Text-to-Speech API and PlayHT Voice Cloning API from PlayAI (formerly PlayHT).

### How are Mahmoud'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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