#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans

Dan Kokotov is VP of Engineering at Rev.ai, an automatic speech
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (09:17)
- Dune (12:34) - Rev (18:33) - Translation (25:22) - Gig economy
(34:02) - Automatic speech recognition (44:53) - Create products
that people love (53:02) - The future of podcasts at Spotify
(1:14:41) - Book recommendations (1:16:02) - Stories of our
dystopian future (1:19:45) - Movies about Stalin and Hitler
(1:24:59) - Interviewing Putin (1:30:56) - Meaning of life