In this RedMonk Conversation, Dr. Scott Stephenson, co-founder and CEO at Deepgram, discusses AI and audio with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. They chat about the history of speech recognition as well as current advancements and their potential impact on culture and industry. Kate and Scott speak about voice's emotional resonance, the future of AI voice agents, and the role synthetic data and active learning will play in training models to understand a range of speech differences and languages.