Most college graduates are looking for work, but Akiva Aranoff had a different idea. Akiva and his college friends founded a company, one that would ultimately reach a global audience. The idea all started at a “hackathon” where teams work rapidly, and without sleep to hack their way through a complicated problem. Aranoff is the co-founder of Maestra, a company that creates accurate voiceover and transcriptions. These services help users to accurately translate their speech to text using advanced text reading AI. Their goal is to make content accessible the everyone. Users have the ability to translate their text to over 50 different languages. Because 50% of YouTube viewers do not speak English, the platform allows creators to reach millions more users than normal, regardless of language barriers

The platform allows users to transcribe and translate full length youtube videos into text in seconds. The cloud based application uses online speech recognition software. This model is easily accessible, and offers an incredibly easy to use interface, again building on Akiva’s goal to reach a broad audience. Akiva stated in an interview that one day he hopes his product can help the education and healthcare industries.