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  "markdown": "Chief Scientist, Rime.\n\nRafael Valle joined Rime as chief scientist in July 2026, when the company announced its Series A. He previously led audio understanding at Meta Superintelligence Labs and before that worked on the audio team of NVIDIA's Applied Deep Learning Research group.\n\n## What Rafael builds\n\n- [Rime TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rime-tts.md), graded C, 55.9/100, in Text-to-speech. Rime's streaming text-to-speech for voice agents. Chief Scientist, Rime, researched 2026-10-29.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Ares Geovanos](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ares-geovanos/), Co-founder, Rime\n- [Brooke Larson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brooke-larson/), Co-founder, Rime\n- [Lily Clifford](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lily-clifford/), Co-founder and CEO, Rime\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [M13](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/m13/)\n- [Unusual Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/unusual-ventures/)\n- [Cadenza Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cadenza-ventures/)\n- [Corazon Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/corazon-capital/)\n- [Twilio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/twilio/)\n- [Founders You Should Know](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/founders-you-should-know/)\n- [Aaron King](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aaron-king/)\n- [Alex Levin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alex-levin/)\n- [Rebecca Greene](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rebecca-greene/)\n- [Michael Akilian](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michael-akilian/)\n- [Maran Nelson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/maran-nelson/)\n- [Nick Arner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nick-arner/)\n- [Molly Mielke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/molly-mielke/)\n- [Arnaud Schenk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/arnaud-schenk/)\n- [Coyne Lloyd](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coyne-lloyd/)\n- [Sarah Veit Wallis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sarah-veit-wallis/)\n- [Mike Heller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mike-heller/)\n- [Zhenya Loginov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zhenya-loginov/)\n- [Monica Black](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/monica-black/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Rafael Valle?\n\nRafael Valle joined Rime as chief scientist in July 2026, when the company announced its Series A. He previously led audio understanding at Meta Superintelligence Labs and before that worked on the audio team of NVIDIA's Applied Deep Learning Research group.\n\n### What does Rime Labs make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Rime TTS API + MCP from Rime Labs. Rime's streaming text-to-speech for voice agents.\n\n### Who has invested in Rime Labs?\n\nThe sources our research read name M13, Unusual Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, Corazon Capital, Twilio, Founders You Should Know, Aaron King, Alex Levin, Rebecca Greene, Michael Akilian, Maran Nelson, Nick Arner, Molly Mielke, Arnaud Schenk, Coyne Lloyd, Sarah Veit Wallis, Mike Heller, Zhenya Loginov and Monica Black.\n\n### How are Rafael's tools graded?\n\nRime TTS API + MCP is graded C, 55.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.rime.ai/company\n- https://www.rime.ai/\n- https://docs.rime.ai/docs/introduction\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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