2021 at AssemblyAI - A Year in Review

In 2021, AssemblyAI made significant strides in improving its speech recognition technology and expanding its feature set. The company released v8 of its transcription model, which boasted up to 18.72% better accuracy across all types of audio and video data. They also introduced nine major new features such as real-time transcription, entity detection, auto chapters (summarization), sentiment analysis, filler words, severity scores for content safety, word search, paragraph detection, and usage alerts. AssemblyAI also launched a developer dashboard, public changelog, YouTube channel with weekly machine learning tutorials, and expanded its social media presence. The company's research team published several papers on end-to-end architectures for speech recognition, Transducer models, and various AI topics. Additionally, AssemblyAI was recognized as both a Fall and Winter 2021 High Performer and Momentum Leader on G2.