Speechify has announced the launch of an early access program for SIMBA Voice Agents, marking a major expansion beyond its core platform into Voice Agent infrastructure for businesses. The company is opening access to its new offering by providing 1,000,000 minutes of Voice Agent usage to selected early partners, signaling a broader push to accelerate adoption of Voice AI across industries.
What are SIMBA Voice Agents?
SIMBA Voice Agents is Speechify’s new Voice Agent-focused brand, designed to help businesses build and deploy voice AI systems that can handle customer interactions, sales, and operational workflows. The move reflects Speechify’s view that Voice Agents are no longer experimental technology, but an inevitable layer of modern business operations. From small businesses to global enterprises, and across sectors like e-commerce, services, and retail, the company expects Voice Agents to become standard tools used to serve customers, make sales, and automate communication. Speechify also sees adoption expanding beyond businesses to government agencies and individuals, making the long-term opportunity span nearly every organization and person.
About Speechify’s Voice Agents
The launch builds on several years of internal investment at Speechify in Voice AI research and infrastructure. The company has developed models across text to speech, speech to text, diarization, and speech to speech systems, while also building the systems required to train and deploy these technologies at scale. Until now, those capabilities have primarily powered Speechify’s Voice AI Productivity Assistant, which serves more than 50 million users. With SIMBA, Speechify is extending that same technical foundation into a new category focused specifically on Voice Agents, combining its research, infrastructure, and go-to-market experience into a unified offering for businesses.
The History Behind the Name of Speechify’s New Brand
The name “SIMBA” reflects the company’s positioning of Voice Agents as powerful, voice-driven systems, while also serving as a nod to a widely recognized lion associated with finding its voice. Speechify describes the launch as an early step in a much larger shift, emphasizing that adoption is still in its early stages and that the company is focused on building for long-term growth.
How Speechify is Making Voice Agents More Accessible
Speechify’s expansion into Voice Agents also comes as the company highlights gaps in the current market. Despite rapid adoption of non-voice AI tools, Voice Agents remain underutilized, largely due to high costs and implementation complexity. According to Speechify, many existing solutions require significant setup effort while delivering limited value relative to cost, leaving the majority of businesses without practical access to the technology. SIMBA is intended to address these challenges by making Voice Agents more accessible, scalable, and cost-effective, with the goal of enabling broader adoption.
Apply to Speechify’s Early Access Program to SIMBA Voice Agents
As part of the early access program, Speechify is inviting companies and developers to share what they want to build with Voice Agents. Selected partners will receive access to SIMBA Voice Agents along with direct support from Forward Deployed Engineers, who will work closely with teams, often within their Slack environments, to help design, implement, and launch use cases. The company says it has already seen strong interest from organizations that have identified Voice Agent opportunities but have not yet had the resources or tools to execute them. Applications for early access are now open, with Speechify encouraging interested partners to submit their ideas and use cases through its LinkedIn. Learn more about SIMBA at simbavoice.ai.