Developer Attempts to Transcribe a Podcast with Microsoft's Speech API. Hilarity Ensues.

Over the last few years, the wave of machine learning and artificial intelligence APIs has been cresting as more and more businesses see the potential for differentiation and more and more API providers look to service that need. IBM clearly recognized the potential of these APIs when it acquired AlchemyAPI back in 2015. Alchemy specialized in machine-learning driven APIs like sentiment analysis and image/language processing. Those APIs are now a part of IBM's Watson portfolio. Now, a few years later, everyone is getting into the game.