About BotTalk · Hamburg · Since 2018

Moin from
Hamburg.

We started in publishing. We never left.
BotTalk is the audio control layer for newsrooms — built by linguists, engineers, and operators who came up inside the industry.

Hamburg HQ
6 years operating
30+ publishers
20M monthly listeners

Why we exist

Text dropped.
Audio didn't.

We watched read-rates fall inside Axel Springer for six years. We watched listen-rates climb in the same window. We built BotTalk to take that arbitrage to every newsroom.

Headlines run for attention against TikTok, YouTube, Instagram — and lose. Audio runs against silence, and wins.

BotTalk is not a TTS vendor. It's the layer between your CMS and every provider on the market. One integration. Newsroom-grade output. No lock-in.

We don't sell technology demos. We ship for a living, in production, for some of the largest publishers in German-speaking Europe.

What we stand for

Three commitments. One operating layer.

01
Newsroom-grade audio.

Editorial pace. Editorial pronunciation. Editorial trust. Built the way an audio desk would build it — not the way a demo would fake it.
02
No vendor lock-in.

Route by need. Swap any time. Never go dark. Every provider on the market sits behind one API — yours.
03
We pick up the phone.

Hamburg-based, reachable, in your language. If you have our number, you have us. GDPR-compliant. Servers in Germany.

The team

Dr. Andrey Esaulov

Co-Founder · CEO

Linguist by training. Six years leading a department at Axel Springer. Picks up the phone.
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Igor Pechenikin

CTO

20+ years in software architecture. Builds maintainable systems with a strong machine-learning focus.
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Anna Sydorkina

COO

MBA-trained operator. Built to carry BotTalk's next stage of growth.
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Josephin Peuten

Key Account Manager

Keeps publishers shipping. Strategic head, hands-on execution. Clear communication, smooth operations.
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Olena Shutovska

Global Event Lead

International-relations background. 10+ years in operations, execution, and cross-cultural communication.
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Oleksii Omelianovych

Marketing Director

Brand strategist. Producer's instincts. YouTube native. Brandformance ambassador.
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