The following is a conversation with Dan Gacotov, VP of Engineering at Rev.ai, which is by many

metrics the best speech-to-text AI engine in the world. Rev in general is a company that

does captioning and transcription of audio by humans and by AI. I've been using their services

for a couple of years now and planning to use Rev to add both captions and transcripts to

some of the previous and future episodes of this podcast. To make it easier for people to read

through the conversation or reference various parts of the episode, since that's something that

quite a few people requested. I'll probably do a separate video on that with links on the podcast

website so people can provide suggestions and improvements there. Quick mention of our sponsors.

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podcast, and cash app. So the choice is health, wisdom, or money. Choose wise of my friends,

and if you wish, click the sponsor links below to get a discount and to support this podcast.

As a side note, let me say that I reached out to Dan and the Rev team for a conversation

because I've been using and genuinely loving their service and really curious about how it works.

I previously talked to the head of Adobe Research for the same reason. For me, there's a bunch of

products usually software that comes along and just makes my life way easier. Examples are Adobe

Premiere for video editing as a topRx for cleaning up audio, Arohad Key on Windows for automatic keyboard

or mouse tasks, E-Mex, as an IDE for everything including the universe itself. I can keep on going,

but you get the idea. I just like talking to people who create things I'm a big fan of.

That said, after doing this conversation, the folks at Rev.ai offered to sponsor this podcast

in the coming months. This conversation is not sponsored by the guest. It probably goes without saying,

but I should say it anyway that you cannot buy your way onto this podcast. I don't know why you

would want to. I wanted to make a specific point that no sponsor will ever influence what I do on

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