Workshop: Building and optimizing dictation features

Dictation has become a feature everyone is adding to their product. In this workshop, Andrew Galyan-Mann from the AssemblyAI forward-deployed engineering team builds a dictation feature into a mock Slack app, chapter by chapter, and shows how to get finished text on screen in under a second. What you'll learn: • Why the Sync API fits dictation better than async or streaming. Async has a floor of several seconds, and streaming means standing up a WebSocket for every short burst. Sync is a single POST request with a finished Universal-3.5 Pro transcript in the response. • How key terms prompti