Gladia, an AI-powered transcription and audio intelligence provider, has secured $16 million in funding. The Paris-based company plans to develop a new real-time transcription and analytics engine with this investment. CEO Jean-Louis Quéguiner told VentureBeat he founded the company out of frustration with existing services’ poor accent recognition. Gladia’s new engine can transcribe over 100 languages in real-time and switch between languages. It also extracts insights such as sentiment and key points from conversations. According to CTO Jonathan Soto, the API can be easily integrated into existing systems.