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Alex M.

@AlexM_SLC

Legal and BD lead @silencionetwork | Check out https://nitter.cf/t.co/wQBp9qFjeF

Joined January 2024
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DePIN's best answer to "where's the real demand?" is a customer invoice. Not a TVL chart, not a node count, not a partnership logo. Someone outside crypto paying for what the network produces. Everything else is a dashboard.
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In case you still don't get how huge Silencio could be, then you might have missed this: Like a month ago, the Gates Foundation pulled together a 60-member coalition, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, ElevenLabs and many more, with one shared 5-year goal: give 3.4 billion people access to AI in their own language and voice. that means closing the gap across more than 7,000 languages, most of which barely have the voice data to train on. in other words, the biggest institutions and leading AI labs on earth have confirmed that voice data for underrepresented languages is one of the most important problems in AI right now. that's the exact market @silencioNetwork has been building for this whole time, and likely no other firm in the world can serve niche languages from 2.5M+ people across the globe the way they can. given the timing and relevance, maybe the most exciting DePIN in the entire space right now. and the fact that they're already working with some of the leading AI labs as paying clients validates exactly that.
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Under the coordination of the Blocksound Foundation (@FoundationSLC), SLC is expanding to Solana. Contract Address: 6aqQf9dsYAUwyW3jRawBBxZ1oy8ehmBYb519MhjV2eab Solscan: solscan.io/token/6aqQf9dsYAU… Jupiter: jup.ag/?sell=EPjFWdd5AufqSSq… Meteora pool: meteora.ag/dlmm/FtMJoFr6Shjn… ⚠️ Always verify the contract address (CA) posted on this account and silencio.network. (Jupiter verification is in progress, and Solscan is still indexing our logo and metadata. Until that’s done, the token may show as unverified or without a logo.) Powered by peaqOS from @peaq. The only official SLC on Solana.
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$SLC is now live on @solana Voice AI never looked this good.
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Silencians get ready! Months of hard work from the @silencioNetwork team is aligning and will be shared next week!
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Silencio | Voice Data for AI (@silencioNetwork) profile pictureSilencio | Voice Data for AI
@silencioNetworkOct 29
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Exciting days ahead. Stay tuned 👀
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“Most natural way to interact with intelligence” - if you speak a top 100 language. Could not agree more with the statement, but we do have a long way to go for the remaining 3.5B speakers globally This is why we built @silencioNetwork
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@jackOct 23
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa
Dessa - the Conversation Model trained only on speech

Dessa - the Conversation Model trained only on speech

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Last month a free speech corpus with more than a million hours, in 147 languages, went up for anyone to download. If your data strategy is "more hours", that's now free.
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What isn't: a consent record for every speaker, accents labelled by the people who have them, and transcripts in the script the language is actually written in.
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Long-tail languages used to be research projects at the big labs. In 2026 they're on commercial roadmaps. That changes the data question. A research demo can run on read speech. A product launch in Lagos or Cebu can't.
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Most multilingual ASR benchmarks are read speech. Your users aren't reading. They talk, with accents, on ordinary phones, in noisy rooms. A model can top a read-speech leaderboard and still fail the call centre in Lagos. Evaluate on the speech you'll actually serve.
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Asia-Pacific is growing conversational AI at 26.1% CAGR through 2030. The deepest commercial speech corpora still sit in English, French, German, Spanish. The gap between where the buyers are and where the data lives is the whole commercial thesis for specialist speech data.
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The buyer momentum is in Southeast Asia, South Asia, MENA. The corpora that meet enterprise procurement bars are in Europe and North America. Three years of arbitrage until that gap closes. Whoever ships auditable data for the actual buyer languages wins.
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This is the operational shape of the market I keep repeating in deal calls. Buyer languages are not the same as available languages. That is a 3-year fix, not a 3-month fix. Source: Grand View Research, Fortune Business Insights, 2026. #SpeechAI #VoiceAI #MultilingualAI
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Dear Silencians, please help us with our Wolof data collection and tag any crypto X communities from Senegal! @silencioNetwork OR share the ongoing Wolof project with these communities, using your referral code, and you can earn referral commissions!!
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Back from Interspeech 2026, Sydney. Every major voice AI lab in the room. The papers that mattered most: the ones on languages public models still can't hear. Silencio was Full-Day Sponsor of Indigenous Voices Day. That was the point of showing up.
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Final day at Interspeech 2026. Best week of speech AI in a year, easy. If you build in this space and were not here, put next year on the calendar. Booth S5 open one more day.
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Day 3 at Interspeech, Sydney. Three days of conversations with people who take low-resource speech data seriously and know how hard it actually is. Not many places you can find this many of them in one room.
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Today is Indigenous Voices Day. Silencio is Full-Day Sponsor. The reason to be here is the room. Researchers, elders, engineers, people who spent their careers on languages the internet forgot. Not many days in this job feel more like the point of it.
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