Launch HN: Deepgram (YC W16) – Scalable Speech API for Businesses
Hey HN, I’m Scott Stephenson, one of the cofounders of Deepgram ( https://www.deepgram.com/ ). Getting information from recorded phone calls and meetings is time-intensive, costly, and imprecise. Our speech recognition API allows businesses to reliably translate high-value unstructured audio into accurate, parsable data. Deepgram started when my cofounder Noah Shutty and I had just finished looking for dark matter (while in a particle physics lab at University of Michigan). Noah had the idea to start recording all audio from his life, 24/7. After gathering hundreds of hours of recordings, we wanted to search inside this fresh dataset, but realized there wasn’t a good way to find specific moments. So, we built a tool utilizing the same AI techniques we used for finding dark matter particle events, and it ended up working pretty well. A few months later, we made a singl
Why it failed
Hey HN, I’m Scott Stephenson, one of the cofounders of Deepgram ( https://www.deepgram.com/ ). Getting information from recorded phone calls and meetings is time-intensive, costly, and imprecise. Our speech recognition API allows businesses to reliably translate hi
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- stephensonsco
- Ended
- 2018
- Source
- hackernews