Jeon Hwa-sung's Startup Morning Coffee #1006: Synthia, Future-Changing Technology

The YouTube program 'Startup Morning Coffee', hosted by CEO Jeon Hwa-sung, meets viewers live every day at 8:40 AM on the 'Jeon Hwa-sung's CNTV' channel. This program deeply highlights the core competencies and market potential of various startups, serving as a crucial information hub for those interested in the startup ecosystem through real-time communication. Among these, 'Synthia', a startup that innovatively converts published books into audiobooks using AI producer technology, is particularly noteworthy. Synthia focused on the reality that currently only 2% of annual publications are produced as audiobooks. This is due to the high difficulty, long physical production time, and immense production costs exceeding 5 million won involved in audiobook creation. To solve this chronic problem, Synthia developed an AI-based solution, offering a technological service that drastically reduces production time to 1/1000th and costs to 1/50th compared to traditional methods. The core of this company lies in automating the entire audiobook production process through AI producer technology. By actively utilizing LLM (Large Language Model) and voice engines, Synthia organically connects all processes from text preprocessing, context understanding, automatic script generation, episode analysis, multi-casting voice generation, acoustic analysis, automated sound balancing, and finally, the inspection stage. CEO Jeon Hwa-sung expressed expectations for Synthia's future, predicting explosive growth in the audiobook market. This market, projected to rapidly grow from 8.5 trillion won in 2024 to 50 trillion won within the next 10 years, sees approximately 300 B2C audiobook service companies competing worldwide. In this environment, Synthia's unique AI technology possesses the potential to change the market paradigm, and its track record of participating in CNTTECH's 'Next Elevation' support program further underpins its technological prowess and growth potential.