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Fluently hit $6,000,000 ARR! 🎉
0 → $1M ARR: 634 days
$1M → $6M ARR: 148 days
Next 180 days are going to be wild!
Speech-to-text is solved. Unless you have an accent.
Over 1 million people from 180 countries have spent 580,000 hours speaking with Fluently AI tutors while learning a new language.
Nearly all of them have an accent, and transcribing their speech is still hard.
So we benchmarked streaming speech-to-text systems on spontaneous, accented English from our learners. Leaderboard and methodology in the thread.
English is the easy one. Our learners study 14 other languages too.
Working on tough speech problems? DMs are open.
@ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime is leading: 5.41% WER across all accents and 8.16% on low-fluency Asian accents.
Accuracy doesn't have to cost speed. The two most accurate systems return final text 0.08 s (MAI-Transcribe-2) and 0.14 s (Scribe v2 Realtime) after the speaker stops.
Only four systems are on the Pareto front, where nothing is both faster and more accurate.
Full leaderboard across 16 accents and 3 fluency levels, plus methodology: getfluently.app/research/asr
Inference code is open source: github.com/fluently-ai/realt…
if you’re a VC, it might be a good time to change your default coffee place
dm me if you need a list of recommendations
made a map of Bay Area cafes where you’ve got the best shot at meeting VCs (and maybe raising your next round)
check it out: meetvc.cafe
if there is an industry ai will turn upside down, it is deathcare, and yet i know only one person building in it
i asked chatgpt how to plan a funeral.
it said to call a few funeral homes and ask for price lists. makes sense when only 18% of them post prices online, it had nothing to show me.
every other industry figured out online shopping 20 years ago. this one still runs on phone calls.
so 8 in 10 families call one place and say yes to an $8k decision, sometimes from a hospital hallway.
why are we fine with that?
episode 2 of building an ai-native funeral company in public.
somewhere a VC is trying very hard not to ask about retention
Introducing my building an AI-native funeral company in public series.
Our generation does everything online and we care about experiences. But the one experience we’re all going to have? Still feels like a 100 years out of date.
Cringe.
The US has over 15,000 funeral homes. About 80% are family owned. Rising costs, staffing shortages, retiring owners. The people running these businesses are BURIED in admin while serving people in the toughest moments in our lives.
So where the hell does AI come in?
• Give owners one place to manage cases, staff, suppliers, and payments
• Help small teams serve more families by automating routine work
• Reach new customers through digital marketing and online booking
• Let families customize, plan and pay for a funeral online
• Expand the offering with pre-need plans, customized ceremonies and aftercare
Big-company infrastructure for small funeral homes.
Can we pull it off? The end goal: a personalized goodbye without the luxury price tag all over US.
Let's see!
was inspired by @marclou datafast and built real-time visualization of fluently stats
Crazy but if I built an app from scratch, I would use bare @ClickHouseDB for logs and events, @neondatabase for the database and functions, and @better_auth
Oh, and @claudeai to build the app itself
need this for @get_bb_app
i am surprised that I haven’t seen smth like that before. looks cool!