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What is Velma?
Velma is the best AI model for understanding the true meaning of every conversation. It is a voice-native model built on Modulate’s Ensemble Listening Model (ELM), designed to understand conversations directly rather than reduce them to text. Velma is the first production ELM, trained on hundreds of millions of hours of real conversations to capture nuance, emotion, and intent with unmatched accuracy.
What is the Ensemble Listening Model (ELM)?
ELM is Modulate’s unique architecture for processing voice conversations. It powers Velma as a voice-native model that understands conversations in their nuance and context, rather than simply transcribing what is said.
How does Velma help my organization?
Velma enables real-time insights from voice conversations across various use cases, including:
- Get notified in real-time when moments of interest arise in conversations.
- Enrich Customer Experience by improving quality and safety in interactions.
- Power Voice Conversations with digital ears that catch hidden meanings, cultural context, and emotional state.
- Fight Fraud and Scams by spotting manipulation or deception signals.
- Evaluate + Guardrail AI Voice Agents to monitor and ensure trusted behavior.
- Bolster Community Safety for safer interactions in adversarial environments.
- Ensure Compliance through structured reports with transparent decision logic.
How does Velma integrate with existing systems and workflows?
Velma’s enterprise platform is purpose-built to bring Velma into your workflows. It can connect to your CCaaS, VoIP, and telephony providers to ingest audio and surface results. It enables you to Analyze performance, Monitor risk, and Act through alerts, escalation, reporting, and coaching—without heavyweight ML operations.
What performance and benchmarks does Velma claim?
Velma markets itself as the premier option for conversation understanding and transcription accuracy at a favorable cost. It highlights:
- 20+ million minutes analyzed daily
- Highest accuracy and lowest cost in its conversation-understanding benchmarks
- 51% more accurate than Google Gemini
- 25x better cost performance than foundation models
What use cases is Velma best suited for?
Velma is designed to support:
- Enriching Customer Experience
- Fighting Fraud and Scams
- Evaluating and Guardrailing AI voice agents
- Bolstering Community Safety
- Ensuring Compliance with transparent decision logic
How does Velma handle privacy and data management?
Velma emphasizes privacy and data management as part of Modulate’s offerings. View the Privacy Policy and related Data and Privacy resources for specifics. The site also references privacy-oriented materials like Tufts Transparency Files and related legal resources.
How can I preview Velma or get a demo?
You can Preview Velma or Talk to Sales directly through the site to evaluate its capabilities and fit for your organization.
Where can I learn more about Velma?
Explore additional resources such as the Blog, Newsletter, Ethics, Compliance, and About Us sections. You can also access Data and Privacy information, Privacy Policy, and related legal resources.
What makes Velma different from traditional transcription or other voice AI?
Velma is a voice-native model designed to understand conversations in their nuance, emotion, and intent, rather than merely transcribing words. It’s presented as the “Only Voice Intelligence Platform” that analyzes, monitors, and acts within enterprise workflows, enabling real-time insight and trusted decision-making. Don’t Just Listen. Understand.




















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