Krish Ramineni), Fireflies CEO and Microsoft alum, learned the value of NLP working with Skype and Office as a Product Manager. He set out to solve a problem he had: note-taking in meetings and following up afterward. Fireflies has been used by more than 60,000 organizations to make meetings more efficient. Krish has raised nearly $20M from an A-list group of investors including Canaan Partners and Khosla Ventures. Listen and learn...
- The evolution of speech recognition technology in the enterprise
- How Krish and the team build an AI voice assistant that joins meetings in 100 countries every day
- How to start with 85% ASR (automated speech recognition) accuracy and make it better using AI
- How to mitigate the impact of biased training data where foreign accents and uncommon speech patterns are underrepresented
- Who owns voice transcripts used to train AI models
- How being recorded changes participant behavior in meetings
- The future of "voice-first" computing
References in this episode:
- Krishna Gade from Fiddler discusses AI explainability)
- Fireflies) on Twitter
- A whole breast, AI-based ultrasound system was cleared by the FDA to improve mammogram accuracy)
- Dentists now use AI to improve the accuracy of spotting cavities)
