Speak

Speak (legal entity Speakeasy Labs, Inc.) is a US technology company headquartered in San Francisco that develops an AI-powered language learning app. The product focuses on building spoken fluency through speech recognition, AI conversation and personalized lessons rather than memorizing vocabulary and grammar alone. The company launched in its first market, South Korea, in 2019 and has expanded to more than 40 countries, surpassing 15 million downloads. Speak is backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund and has collaborated with OpenAI, including as a launch partner for speech recognition technology. English speakers can learn Spanish, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian and Simplified Chinese, and Speak also offers English courses for speakers of many other languages. The company also runs Speak for Business, a solution for organizations. The team numbers around 130 people working from offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei and Ljubljana.