RWS Scoops up Papercup IP After Staff Exodus

RWS Holdings – after poor looking results, I now predict that this group’s shares will double in price

Yesterday RWS Holdings (LON:RWS) bought into the IP of Papercup – no this is nothing to do with drinking containers.   It is potentially a ‘magic’ deal that could help RWS transform its business going forward.  Papercup’s intellectual property creates its unique ability to reproduce a speaker's tone, pace and emotion faithfully.  Its technology combines state-of-the-art […] The post RWS Holdings – after poor looking results, I now predict that t…

RWS scoops up Papercup IP after staff exodus

The intellectual property of AI dubbing and synthetic speech platform Papercup has been acquired by listed firm RWS. The news follows a staff exodus to Scale AI which Papercup co-founder and CEO Jesse Shemen (pictured) described as a “bittersweet moment”. Revealing on LinkedIn recently that a large portion of the Papercup team is joining San Francisco-based Scale AI, he wrote: “The past few weeks have been a whirlwind – but I’m incredibly proud …

RWS snaps up IP behind AI translation startup Papercup

London-listed content solutions firm RWS has acquired the intellectual property of Papercup, an AI dubbing startup that raised £16m in 2022. Founded in 2017, Papercup developed a machine learning system to automatically translate audio content for media companies. The London-based firm’s technology combines voice synthesis and AI voice recognition with editorial tools for human language specialists, offering a hybrid approach to translation. Pap…

RWS Acquires Papercup’s IP to Power Next-Gen AI Dubbing for Enterprise Clients

RWS, a content solutions company powered by technology and human expertise, has acquired the intellectual property behind Papercup’s breakthrough AI dubbing technology – known for its unique ability to reproduce a speaker’s tone, pace and emotion faithfully. The acquisition is a strategic step in RWS’s wider plan to embed advanced AI across its technology stack, accelerating its ability to support clients with multilingual video, voice and conte…

Papercup IP acquired by RWS to power AI dubbing

Content solutions company RWS has announced the acquisition of Papercup’s AI IP. Combining voice synthesis with thousands of unique AI voices and editorial tools, Papercup’s technology enables output to be fine-tuned, providing quality comparable with human dubbing while reducing costs and turnaround times. Acquiring the intellectual property behind the technology, RWS aims to support its plan to embed AI throughout its technology stack. The str…