Neil Hughs Podcast: Dark Matter Physicist Turned Tech CEO

Deepgram is an automatic speech recognition startup that uses end-to-end deep learning technology to train speech models to learn under complex, real-world conditions—regardless of customers’ unique vocabulary, accents, product names, and acoustic environments. It’s an entirely new approach compared to the other players in the space, like Google, Amazon, and Nuance. CEO Scott Stephenson, came up with the idea for Deepgram while researching the creation of dark matter in a bunker two miles underground as a Ph.D. student. In the few hours that weren’t devoted to his research, Scott recorded audio from his life, 24,7, and realized there wasn’t a tool available that would help process his recordings and pinpoint valuable timestamps.