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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most commercial speech models historically trained on roughly 50,000 hours of audio
“And our models prior, and most commercial speech recognition models trained on like, 50,000 hours”
Dylan Fox May 1, 2023 ▶ 14:09 Generative AI for Speech Recognition | AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AssemblyAI processes over 100 million audio files monthly via API
“We've processed, ah, yeah, it's like over a hundred million audio files a month that are flowing through the API, and that's growing pretty quickly.”
Dylan Fox May 1, 2023 ▶ 16:30 Generative AI for Speech Recognition | AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox
Assertion Supported
State-of-the-art speech recognition models still carry a 15% error rate
“State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition still has, like, a 15% error rate on a lot of data sets”
Dylan Fox May 1, 2023 ▶ 20:05 Generative AI for Speech Recognition | AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AssemblyAI has processed almost two billion audio files to date
“We've processed almost two billion audio files through our system.”
Dylan Fox May 1, 2023 ▶ 0:47 Generative AI for Speech Recognition | AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox
Assertion Supported
AssemblyAI trained Conformer-1 on 650,000 hours of labeled audio data
“So we trained it on, like, 60 terabytes of audio data, like, labeled audio data. So it was, I think, something like 650,000 hours of audio data.”
Dylan Fox May 1, 2023 ▶ 13:59 Generative AI for Speech Recognition | AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox
Assertion Contradicted
AssemblyAI's JAX contribution sped up Whisper model training by 10x
“We actually, I think, published like, made a contribution to Jax to make it, like, 10 times faster to train Whisper.”
Dylan Fox May 1, 2023 ▶ 26:18 Generative AI for Speech Recognition | AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox
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