🎯 Why Vochlea caught our eye
Some of you already know why music is so special in my life — and if you’re curious, here’s a glimpse: 🎧 YouTube channel – Sophy Ivy.
Also a few years ago, I also had the pleasure of managing the development of Spintel – an innovative analytics platform reshaping how the music industry tracks radio airplay. Working with Spintel was more than just a tech project; it was a bridge between my passion for music and my professional drive for building products that empower industries through data.
That’s why I was genuinely thrilled to meet a startup at #WebSummit that hit close to home. It reminded me how powerful the intersection of music, data, and tech can be.
🧩 The problem Vochlea solves
Every builder—musicians, clinicians, product teams—knows the pain of inspiration bottlenecks. In music, the friction is acute:
- Traditional MIDI requires keyboard or pad skills, which many vocal-led creators don’t have.
- Audio memos become “black holes” of unnamed files that are impossible to retrieve or repurpose.
Vochlea attacks both issues: Dubler 2 translates vocal pitch and percussive sounds into MIDI in real time, and Dubnote structures the messy memo universe with automatic tagging, section splitting, tempo detection, and transcription—on device for privacy.
🛠️ What they built (and why it’s different)
- Dubler 2 (desktop) — a standalone app that works with any DAW, turning your voice into MIDI with low latency. You can calibrate any mic, map drums, and control synths and effects via vocal timbre and dynamics.
- Dubler Studio Kit 2 (bundle) — software + a calibrated USB mic to reduce setup friction for first-time users.
- Dubnote (iOS) — a musician-first voice-memo replacement with auto-split, tags, tempo detection, lyric & speech transcription, iCloud sync, and local processing for privacy; free tier + Premium plan.
What makes it stand out:
- Real-time voice-to-MIDI (not record-then-convert), which radically shortens the loop from idea → instrument.
- On-device intelligence for mobile capture (privacy-forward, low-friction, and fast).
- Community validation: widely discussed by producers and stocked by major retailers—useful signals of adoption.
👉 Explore the products on Vochlea’s website: vochlea.com.
🧠 Team snapshot
- George Wright, CEO — Design-engineer and entrepreneur, featured by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Web Summit.
- Daven Sanassy, CTO — Veteran developer; led the real-time audio/AI stack powering Dubler.
- Kelly Angood, CMO — Growth and community leader; Vochlea’s early Kickstarter success reached its goal in 45 minutes and topped £200k in a month.
Follow Vochlea on LinkedIn for updates: Vochlea Music on LinkedIn.
🤝 What YOUR R&D can do for startups as Vochlea
At YOUR R&D, we specialize in full-cycle AI & software development, modern .NET and JavaScript stacks, and production-grade DevOps. We also implement product-led growth sites and data pipelines end-to-end.
Here are 3 concrete ways we could partner with Vochlea:
- On-device AI & compliance hardening
- YOUR R&D contribution: secure data layers, telemetry, and CI/CD for multi-platform releases.
- Accessibility tools & alternative interfaces
- Prototype interfaces that translate vocalizations into control commands for applications. This expands interaction possibilities for users with specific accessibility needs or for hands-free use cases.
- YOUR R&D contribution: rapid prototyping with OpenAI API integration, user experience (UX) research sprints, and use-case analysis.
- Creator analytics & cohort intelligence
- Build privacy-preserving analytics for creative workflows: session tagging, retrieval, and longitudinal progress insights—features creators love and enterprises can license.
- YOUR R&D contribution: data engineering (DB/DWH/BI), .NET/React apps, and growth experiments in education and prosumer markets.
If you’re a startup and open to a discovery call, we’d love to jump on a pilot brief.brief.
🔗 Useful links
- Vochlea website: vochlea.com — product pages for Dubler 2 and Dubnote.
- Vochlea LinkedIn: company updates & education initiatives.
- YOUR R&D homepage: yourrnd.com — AI & software development for HealthTech (services, contact).
- YOUR R&D blog: recent HealthTech and AI insights: yourrnd.com/blog
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