Deepgram Unveils Tool for AI to Teach Automatic Speech Recognition to Other AI

Tapaan Chauhan
2 min readDec 6, 2020

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Deepgram, Enterprise Speech Technology Startup, has reinvented Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) entirely with the newly debuted AutoML training system. It provides companies with much more reliable data sets now than it used to previously, that too, with lower hardware and usage cost. AutoML is a method used to train one artificial intelligence with another and without any human interference. According to Deepgram, AutoML has never been used in Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) in the past.

Deepgram’s flagship platform offers organizations and other endeavor associations an approach to transcribe, record, and analyze deep end-to-end learning. Meetings, client assistance calls, and formal introductions are all aspects of the organization’s portfolio. Deepgram claims its Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) is unmistakably more precise than the stages utilizing more customary models, yet quicker and requiring less processing power simultaneously. Deepgram’s models are tuneable for the particular business or organization operating it, acclimating to the dialect and sonic condition where it is set.

This week, the San Francisco-based organization delivered its new AutoML preparing apparatus, guaranteeing more than 90% faster delivery, accuracy, and half the cost. Deepgram is pointing the speech model coach at data scientists and engineers “hoping to achieve speech acknowledgment or replace inconvenient [automated speech recognition] models that have not worked,” Stephenson noted in a blog entry disclosing the AutoML apparatus on Thursday.

The new instrument adds a different line to Deepgram’s current year, beginning with sealing a $12 million funding round in March. As the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis set hefty loads on medical care suppliers, the startup gave $1 million worth of its foundation’s administrations to clinical consideration associations in April. The organization acquired another vital interest in June, this time from the U.S. intelligence community established funding firm In-Q-Tel, yet an undisclosed aggregate. Not long after that, Deepgram started another business approach, giving free, restricted to its innovation through the new MissionControl framework. Potential customers are presently ready to try out how Deepgram’s creation may help in their activities, to lure them into pursuing longer ventures.

Deepgram’s methodology was completely new in the beginning and was therefore dealt with privately, and accuracy was being increased in a way that was not apparent to the user. “Presently, we are permitting individuals to [setup and train] models themselves,” Deepgram CEO Scott Stephenson mentioned in a meeting not long ago. “If you were to offer these two years ago, people may not have known what it was after, and what it could have done for them. Presently, they’re really arising to be more information-driven; they are not trying to mention it anymore. Presently, just in case you do not have data, then something must be wrong.”

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Tapaan Chauhan

Founder & CEO at Smart Voice Studio | Brand Voice Consultant | VUI Designer | Conversational AI | Voice marketing strategy designer www.smartvoicestudio.com