<story><title>AssemblyAI: speech-to-text API</title><url>http://assemblyai.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dylanbfox</author><text>This is Dylan from AssemblyAI. We&amp;#x27;re really surprised to see ourselves on HN tonight!&lt;p&gt;We had a big launch planned for 4-6 weeks from now, and have been working towards getting things ready for that. As a result, we&amp;#x27;re missing a lot of things we know we need like benchmarks comparing ourselves to other services. Please bear with us!&lt;p&gt;If you do end up trying the API, we&amp;#x27;d love your feedback. We&amp;#x27;re trying to build a really simple speech-to-text API for developers, that you can get up and running with in just a few minutes, and that doesn&amp;#x27;t require you to implement &amp;lt;insert big tech co here&amp;gt; into more of your stack.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a lot more we offer too, like:&lt;p&gt;- customization via transfer learning for higher accuracy (language models now, acoustic models soon)&lt;p&gt;- supporting lossy audio like low bitrate mp3 files from phone calls&lt;p&gt;- transcribe any audio file without having to specify it&amp;#x27;s metadata like sampling rate or encoding&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re also constantly improving our models for higher accuracy. Every few weeks we ship accuracy improvements based on improvements to our DNN architectures, better data, better data augmentation, etc.&lt;p&gt;In terms of our STT stack, we&amp;#x27;re using CTC based models combined with RNN-LMs -- all built in TensorFlow and PyTorch -- for decoding. Happy to provide more info around our stack if you&amp;#x27;re interested!&lt;p&gt;For any questions off HN -- you can reach me at dylan at assemblyai dot com&lt;p&gt;Thank you!!</text></comment>
<story><title>AssemblyAI: speech-to-text API</title><url>http://assemblyai.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ironfootnz</author><text>A very bold statement, no blog post commenting on which technique, hard to sell out.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The world&amp;#x27;s most advanced Speech-to-Text, customized for your application.</text></comment>