With a Little Help From Our Friends: Dabel Partners with Agora.io to Make Communication More Human

Founder Iguchi Takahito shares his perspective on what partnering with broadcasting platform Agora.io means for Dabel.

Making online communication feel more instinctive, more real is actually not as easy as it sounds. It’s one thing to develop a platform to let people ramble on an audio stream, but it’s a whole other animal trying to make the experience feel more like a conversation by letting listeners join the stream and talk in real-time.

“Everyone has something to say but social media overload can make you feel like your voice is lost in the crowd… we’re giving our users a platform that empowers them to be heard.”

— Takahito Iguchi

This is why we partnered with Agora.io, the leading voice, video, and live broadcasting platform that also powers real-time engagement for social apps like MeetMe, Gravy, and Bunch, to bring Dabel to life. By partnering with Agora.io, our app is able to host live streams that support up to 10,000 concurrent speakers and is automatically saved for easy social sharing across different platforms.

Aimed at the growing number of people fatigued by crowded social media feeds and endless visual stimulation, Dabel enables users to give their senses a break by immersing themselves in the spoken word. As Iguchi observes, “Everyone has something to say but social media overload can make you feel like your voice is lost in the crowd. With Dabel, everyone has the ability to speak their mind with all the emotional nuances. We’re giving our users a platform that empowers them to be heard.”

“The audio revolution is sweeping the world as voice-enabled apps, smart speakers, voice assistants, and podcasts reach mass adoption at an incredibly rapid pace,” said Reggie Yativ, CRO & COO of Agora.io. “Dabel is making its mark in the social media industry with a unique platform that gives people an innovative new way to create and enjoy real-time audio content on mobile devices.”

“Dabel is making its mark in the social media industry with a unique platform that gives people an innovative new way to create and enjoy real-time audio content on mobile devices.”

— Reggie Yativ, Agora.io

The underlying technology behind Dabel’s voice streaming feature is Agora’s Voice SDK, which allows developers to embed crystal-clear, real-time voice chat into any application. The partnership allows Dabel to tap into Agora’s network of 200 globally distributed data centers and proprietary software-defined real-time network (SD-RTN™) to connect users globally via high-quality, real-time voice chat.

Announcement was originally released on PR Newswire.