The It's a Monkey Podcast interviews technology thought leaders from all over the world and provides a weekly overview of the latest news from the tech economy.
Episode 123
CEO & Co-Founder of Otter.ai
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01:28:23
Podcast Hosts:
- Kevin Garber - CEO and Co-founder - ManageFlitter
- Kate Frappell - Design Lead - ManageFlitter
Sam and Kevin discuss the role of AI in audio transcription services and much more.
Some of the topics that we cover in our chat with Sam include:
- Why Sam and team named the company ‘Otter’.
- Sam’s background as a Google Engineer and start up founder.
- Why Otter chose audio transcription as a problem to solve.
- How Otter uses a deep learning neural network to understand context and self-correct audio transcriptions.
- Sam speaks about the process of training an AI system.
- What the future of Otter looks like.
- Some of the challenges Otter is currently facing, including background noise.
- Otter’s plans to create sophisticated summaries of audio transcripts.
- The size and culture of the Otter team.
- Why Universities are especially interested in using Otter.
- Sam tells us what it was like working at Google.
This week in the Tech News:
- Facebook seek partnerships with major US banks;
- Alex Jones’ InfoWars test the limits of free speech on Social Media platforms.
Below is a transcript of the interview with Sam as generated by Otter:
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