Join us for the AssemblyAI Challenge and capture the nuance of human speech: $3,000 in Prizes!

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We are so excited to partner with AssemblyAI to launch a brand new challenge for the community.

Running through November 24, the AssemblyAI Challenge is all about innovating with human speech by building with the industry’s most powerful and accurate Speech AI models.

There are three prompts for this challenge with three opportunities to win!

Our Prompts

Sophisticated Speech-to-Text

Build an application that shows off the power of Universal-2, AssemblyAI’s latest and most accurate speech-to-text model. Formatting? Proper nouns? Timestamps? Universal-2 does it all.

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Sophisticated Speech-to-Text Submission Template

Really Rad Real-Time

Build an application with a real-time experience by utilizing AssemblyAI’s Streaming API to convert live audio streams into text synchronously. You can transcribe all sorts of things – conversations, meetings, events, and more – what live interactions will your app elevate?

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Really Rad Real-Time Submission Template

No More Monkey Business

Use LeMUR to build an application with a LLM-powered feature on top of Speech Data. You can search, extract insights, generate summaries, and more. How will LeMUR take your app to the next level?

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

No More Monkey Business Submission Template

Pro-tip: Your submission can count towards multiple prompts if you decide to tackle more than one! We can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Judging Criteria and Prizes

All three prompts will be judged on the following:

Use of underlying technology
Usability and User Experience
Accessibility
Creativity

The winner of each prompt will receive:

$1,000 USD
6-Month DEV++ Membership
Exclusive DEV Badge
A gift from the DEV Shop

All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

How To Participate

In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt. All applications must be deployed using AssemblyAI models to qualify.

Access Account Credits

For Sophisticated Speech-to-Text participants:

Create an AssemblyAI account with this link
- No credit card information needed
Start building with the $50 free credit!

For Really Rad Real-Time and No More Monkey Business Participants:

Create an AssemblyAI Account with this link
Then, click this link
- It will give you access to all product offerings for the $50 free credit (includes Real-time and LeMUR). If you go straight to this step without being logged into your account, you will have to add funds to the account.
Enter credit card details. You will not have to add funds to the account.
Start building with the $50 free credit across all of our offerings!

Note: each participant can receive $50 in total credit, regardless of how many prompts they work on.

Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.