Turn audio into actionable insights with industry-leading AI transcription.
What is AssemblyAI?
AssemblyAI is a leading applied AI company focused on transforming audio and video data into actionable insights. Founded in 2017, the team specializes in speech recognition and natural language understanding, building enterprise-grade AI models. The core of their technology is a proprietary, end-to-end deep learning model trained on massive datasets, which powers their accurate speech-to-text API. Key capabilities include automatic transcription, speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and content moderation, all accessible via a developer-friendly API. The platform primarily targets developers and enterprises, with use cases spanning media transcription, contact center analytics, and generating meeting summaries. By integrating directly into business workflows, AssemblyAI automates the extraction of intelligence from unstructured audio, significantly reducing manual effort and enabling data-driven decisions. For a comparison with other transcription tools, visit https://ai-plaza.io/ai/speechmatics. A 2023 technical overview by AssemblyAI details their approach to building robust speech AI models, accessible on their official blog.
Key Findings
- Speech Recognition: Converts spoken language into accurate text transcripts for meetings and calls instantly.
- Audio Intelligence: Extracts key insights and topics from any audio file quickly and reliably.
- Real Time Transcription: Provides live captioning and transcription for streams and conferences without delay.
- Content Moderation: Automatically detects and filters inappropriate content within audio streams for safety.
- Speaker Diarization: Identifies and separates different speakers in conversations to clarify who said what.
- Sentiment Analysis: Measures emotional tone and opinion trends from customer calls to guide strategy.
- Entity Detection: Recognizes and categorizes key information like dates and names from audio automatically.
- Summarization Capabilities: Condenses long recordings into concise actionable summaries to save review time.
- Topic Detection: Identifies main discussion subjects within conversations to organize and search content easily.
- Punctuation Capitalization: Adds proper punctuation and capitalization to transcriptions for immediate professional readability.
Who is it for?
Content Creator
- Podcast transcription
- Meeting note generation
- Video subtitle creation
- Content repurposing
- Interview analysis
Customer Support
- Support call analysis
- Ticket summarization
- Feedback transcription
- Training material creation
- Compliance logging
Project Manager
- Stakeholder meeting minutes
- Progress report automation
- Risk identification
- Documentation from discussions
- Contract review notes
Pricing
Free @ $0/mo
- Access to industry-leading Speech-to-Text and Audio Intelligence models
- Up to 185 hours of pre-recorded audio transcription
- Up to 333 hours of streaming audio transcription
- Up to 5 new streams per minute
- Developer docs and community support
Pay as you go @ $0.15/hr
- Unlimited access to Speech-to-Text, Speech Understanding, and LLM Gateway
- Unlimited concurrent streams and pre-recorded concurrency
- Customizable rate limits
- Dedicated technical support and customized SLAs
- BAA for HIPAA and EU Data Residency compliance
- Self-hosted deployments
Custom @ Contact us
- Custom rate limits and enhanced concurrency
- Enterprise-grade flexibility
- Tailored to specific AI workloads
- Dedicated infrastructure
- Custom model configurations
- Volume discounts