Deep Learning Review: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation In this week's Deep Learning Paper Review, we look at the following paper: DialogueGCN: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation.
Announcements Releasing our v8 Transcription Model - 18.72% Better Accuracy Today, we’re happy to release our most accurate Speech Recognition model to date - version 8 (v8). This updated model delivers up to 18.72% better accuracy across many types of audio.
Tutorials The Top Free Speech-to-Text APIs and Open Source Engines This post compares the best free Speech-to-Text APIs on the market today, including APIs that have a free tier. We’ll also look at several free open source Speech-to-Text engines and explore why you might choose an API versus an open source library, or vice versa.
Deep Learning Review: Pretraining Representations for Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning In recent years, pretraining has proved to be an essential ingredient for success in the fields of NLP and computer vision. In this week's Deep Learning Paper Review, we look at "Pretraining Representations for Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning".
Tutorials DeepSpeech for Dummies - A Tutorial and Overview What is DeepSpeech and how does it work? This post shows basic examples of how to use DeepSpeech for asynchronous and real time transcription.
Announcements New: 8.37% Better Accuracy for Topic Detection and IAB Classification with V4 Update Our deep learning research team is thrilled to announce the release of the latest version of AssemblyAI’s Topic Detection feature, version 4 (v4).
Announcements Top 3 Hackathon Projects Built with AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text API This past weekend, AssemblyAI was a proud sponsor of Sunhacks, an annual student-run hackathon at Arizona State University. We saw a great turnout at the event with close to 300 participants and 60+ projects built in just under 36 hours.
Tutorials How to Choose the Best Speech-to-Text API for your Product With more Speech-to-Text APIs on the market than ever before, how do you choose the best one for your product or use case? Answering these six questions is a great starting point.
Deep Learning How to Train Large Deep Learning Models as a Startup Training large deep learning models is expensive and slow. Yet, startups are all about iterating fast. In this post, we share the lessons we've learned over the past few years.
Deep Learning What is Speaker Diarization and How Does it Work? In the field of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speaker Diarization refers to (A) the number of speakers that can be automatically detected in an audio file, and (B) the words that can be assigned to the correct speaker in that file.
Announcements Improved Accuracy on AssemblyAI’s Real Time Speech-to-Text API AssemblyAI's new real time Speech Recognition system has improved accuracy through new training and tokenization methods.
Announcements New: Improved Topic Detection and IAB Classification We’re excited to release a major accuracy improvement to our Topic Detection feature, which can accurately predict the topics spoken in audio/video files.
Announcements AssemblyAI Recognized as G2 High Performer, Momentum Leader for Fall 2021 We have some exciting news! AssemblyAI has been named a G2 High Performer and Momentum Leader for Fall 2021 in recognition of its outstanding customer reviews and product reviews on G2.com.
Deep Learning Review: Text-Free Prosody-Aware Generative Spoken Language Modeling In this week's Deep Learning Paper Review, we look at the following paper: Text-Free Prosody-Aware Generative Spoken Language Modeling.
Case Studies How Well Does AI Transcribe Song Lyrics? Since the industry wide adoption of deep learning technology, the ability of AI to recognize speech has dramatically increased. Today, AI transcription technology is on the same level of accuracy as human transcription. At least, that’s the case with human speech. We were curious how well AI can recognize
Tutorials How to Convert an MP3 File to Text with an API Recent advances in deep learning technology have made speech recognition available to developers at large. Here, we go over how to convert an MP3 file to text with AssemblyAI's Speech-to-Text API.
Deep Learning Is Word Error Rate Useful? What is Word Error Rate? Word Error Rate is a measure of how accurate an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system performs. Quite literally, it calculates how many “errors” are in the transcription text produced by an ASR system, compared to a human transcription.
Tutorials The State of Python Speech Recognition in 2021 A complete tutorial on speech recognition with Python. Compare results from popular libraries like wav2letter, SpeechRecognition, and DeepSpeech, as well as popular cloud APIs.
Engineering 8/31/2021 AWS Outage Post-Mortem On Tuesday, August 31st, AWS had an outage in their us-west-2 region. At 18:00 UTC that day, we experienced an increase in 5xx error codes returned by our API, as well as a slowdown in transcription turnaround time.
Tutorials Can Podcasts Predict the Stock Market? Can the frequency of negative news in popular news podcasts like The Daily and Up First predict Stock Market performance? We do the analysis in this blog post!
Case Studies Comparing Zoom Transcription Accuracy Across Speech-to-Text APIs In this benchmark report, we compare transcription accuracy between AssemblyAI, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, and AWS Transcribe on Zoom Meeting Recordings.
Tutorials How to Add Subtitles to Your Mux Videos with Python How to use AssemblyAI's MP4 to text API to generate a subtitle file for your Mux video. Learn how to upload SRT and VTT subtitle files to Mux using the AssemblyAI API and Mux API.
Tutorials Real Time Speech Recognition with Python Learn how to do real time streaming Speech-to-Text conversion in Python using the AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text API.
Tutorials How to Set Up Twilio Voicemail Learn how to use Twilio's API to set up a voicemail system that can record your calls, and that you can download recordings from.
Tutorials How to Build a Burner Phone with Voicemail in Python Learn how to build your own burner phone with Twilio and AssemblyAI. Keep your real phone number secure!
