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Features

Topic Detection

Classify what your audio is about against the IAB Content Taxonomy — the standard categories used across content libraries, ad-tech, and media monitoring — at scale.

Get started with less than 10 lines of code

Enable Topic Detection in your transcription request and receive relevant IAB categories for the whole file, plus timestamped segments with relevance scores.

Classify into ~700 IAB categories

A standardized, hierarchical taxonomy purpose-built for content description — so your categories mean the same thing everywhere they’re used.

Relevance scores per segment

Each detected topic comes back with timestamps and a 0–1 relevance score, plus a summary of how each topic relates to the entire file.

Built for scale

Categorize hours of audio consistently across large content libraries — ideal for contextual advertising and media monitoring.

Use cases

Understand your content library at scale

Sort, route, and monetize audio by what it’s actually about.

Power contextual advertising

Enforce brand safety

Index and discover content

Monitor media coverage

Route calls by subject

Build content recommendations

Audit content compliance

Segment audiences by interest

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