AssemblyAI Named G2 Voice Recognition Software Leader in Winter 2022
AssemblyAI is thrilled to announce two new G2 awards in the Voice Recognition Software category for Winter 2022: Momentum Leader and High Performer!
Announcements
New releases, model updates, awards, events, and more.
Introducing Entity Detection - Detect Named Entities in Audio/Video
We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest feature for our Speech-to-Text API -- Entity Detection! As an introduction to this new feature, we’ll look at what exactly Entity Detection is, how it works, how to use it, and several use cases.
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.
AssemblyAI at HackDuke and HackUMBC
This past weekend, AssemblyAI was a proud sponsor of HackDuke, an annual hackathon at Duke university, and HackUMBC, an annual hackathon at the University of Maryland.
Hack the Valley - AssemblyAI at University of Toronto Hackathon
This past weekend, AssemblyAI was a proud sponsor of Hack The Valley, an annual student-run hackathon at the University of Toronto. We saw a great turnout at the event with over 300 participants and 70+ projects built in just under 36 hours.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Improved Real-Time Transcription Speed and Accuracy
We're excited to launch an update to our Real-Time WebSocket Transcription API! This update improves both accuracy and latency for results streamed back from the API.
Voice Search Partnership with Algolia
AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text API update includes the launch of Voice Search with Algolia, improved accuracy, and enhanced speed.
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.
Redacting Sensitive Medical Information from Transcriptions
AssemblyAI's Speech-to-Text API now supports automatically detecting and redacting medical information, like drug names, injuries, and medical conditions, from transcription text!
Improved WER - Speech-to-Text Accuracy vs. Google, AWS (May 2020 Update)
AssemblyAI launches significant improvements to transcription accuracy, consistently out-benchmarking other providers like Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, and AWS Transcribe.
New! Break Transcripts into Paragraphs and Sentences
In this week's update, we released two new API endpoints that you can use to pull a completed transcript broken into paragraphs and sentences!
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.
New Punctuation and Casing Model Released
We’ve been hard at work at AssemblyAI dramatically improving our speech-to-text features and this week sees an update to our punctuation and casing features with a brand new model.
PII Redaction and Accuracy Improvements
Last month, we introduced PII Redaction Policies, as part of a big overhaul to our PII Redaction feature to make it more flexible and powerful for you to specify exactly what you want redacted from your transcript
WhatConverts | AssemblyAI Case Study
WhatConverts call tracking platform partners with AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text API to power State-of-the-Art transcription accuracy.
AssemblyAI Wins Best Public API 2020
Nordic APIs announces AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text API wins 2020 API of the year. Offering a high accuracy speech-to-text API built for developers.
PII Redaction Policies for Speech-to-Text
Advanced PII Redaction from AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text API with customizable redaction rules and over 15 types of PII detected and redacted.
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[Webinar] Conversation Intelligence with CallRail
CallRail and AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text API discuss how conversation intelligence transforms call data into insights that boost sales performance and conversions.