Dylan Fox

Founder, CEO

Announcing our $50M Series C to build superhuman Speech AI models
Announcing our $50M Series C to build superhuman Speech AI models

We're excited to share that we’ve raised $50M in Series C funding led by Accel, our partners that also led our Series A, with participation from Keith Block and Smith Point Capital, Insight Partners, Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, and Y Combinator.

Is Word Error Rate Useful?
Is Word Error Rate Useful?

What is Word Error Rate and is it a useful measurement of accuracy for speech recognition systems? In this article, we examine the answer to these questions, as well as explore other alternatives to Word Error Rate.

Why every Fortune 500 business needs a chief AI officer
Why every Fortune 500 business needs a chief AI officer

Hiring a team of great machine learning scientists and data analysts simply isn’t enough (as first seen in Fast Company).

Our $30M Series B
Our $30M Series B

Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve raised another $30M in our Series B round led by global software investor Insight Partners.

Announcing Our $28M Series A Led by Accel
Announcing Our $28M Series A Led by Accel

We’re excited to share that we’ve raised a $28M Series A led by Accel, with participation from a great group of investors including Y Combinator, John and Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross.

Introducing Auto Chapters - Summarize Audio and Video Files
Introducing Auto Chapters - Summarize Audio and Video Files

Today, we're excited to officially announce our newest feature at AssemblyAI - Auto Chapters. The Auto Chapters feature provides a "summary over time" for audio content transcribed with AssemblyAI's API.

Releasing our v8 Transcription Model - 18.72% Better Accuracy
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.

How to Train Large Deep Learning Models as a Startup
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.

A New API Endpoint to Paginate Through Historical Transcripts
A New API Endpoint to Paginate Through Historical Transcripts

We are excited to make available our new List Endpoint! This gives developers the ability to query for, and paginate through, all of their historical transcriptions.

Content Safety Detection is now GA!
Content Safety Detection is now GA!

Automatically transcribe audio and video files, and surface sensitive content, such "Hate Speech" or "NSFW" content, found within the audio.