Come join us in creating a fun, interactive video montage alongside your fellow Symbl.ai community members.

All you have to do is record a five to ten second video of yourself saying what your favorite API is and why — that’s all! Be sure to keep it short and sweet.

Here is a list of Symbl APIs.

Just 3 Steps — Submit Your Favorite Symbl.ai API

1. Record an approximately five to ten second clip of you saying your favorite Symbl.ai API and why (i.e. “My favorite API is the Summary API because I am able to summarize my calls with an API call.”)
   • Preferred device: smart phone (iPhone, Android, etc.) — 12 megapixels, HD, 4k quality
   • Please film vertically to meet the specs of 1,080 pixels x 1,920 pixels, which is a 9:16 aspect ratio. This is the same as Instagram Stories, IGTV, TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
2. Send your clip to me, Deva DeDios, on the Symbl.ai Slack community or upload it to Google Drive and share with deva.dedios@symbl.ai with the file name “Favorite_Symbl_API_FirstName_LastName”
3. That’s it, you’re done!

If your clip gets selected for this first round, you will receive some cool developer swag!

Once the video montage is finalized, we will upload it to Slack and socials (Twitter and LinkedIn) for you to share with your network as well!

Amplifying Your Voices

We are happy to be starting this series to amplify the voices of you — the builders, bring awareness to cool tech, and start valuable conversations with one another. Thanks so much to those who have been building with Symbl.ai, we really appreciate the support. And thank you in advance to those participating!

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To participate in the challenge, follow the instructions below. We have provided two options of ways you can complete the challenge, both equally fast and simple:

1. Using Node.js, or

2. Using Postman

Must have:

1. An audio (.mp3) or video (.mp4) file

2. Node.js or Postman

3. Symbl.ai account — create one for free here

You can process both audio (.mp3) or video (.mp4) files using either Node.js or Postman, but the following instructions explicitly show you how to use Node.js with an audio file and Postman with a video file. Feel free to process any file using either option.

Option #1 – Process Topics using Node.js (mp3 version)

Step 1 – Sign in to your Symbl.ai account OR sign up HERE (it’s free)

Step 2 – Install Node.js on your machine: https://nodejs.org/en/download/ (skip if already installed).

Step 3 – Head over to this GitHub repo and download the ZIP file. Once downloaded, navigate to the script.js file.

Step 4 – Grab both your `appId` and your `appSecret` from your Symbl.ai account and paste it into the fields to authenticate, then save the file.

Step 4 – Choose your favorite interview and save it in the topic-api-script-main folder (must be a .mp3 file) If you need to convert a podcast episode to a .mp3 follow these steps HERE.

Step 5 – Open the terminal application on your machine. Run the script using “node script.js ./[name of audio file]” command.

Step 7 – Tweet a screenshot to @symbldotai or post on LinkedIn tagging Symbl.ai of the topics you generated from the interview the hashtags #BuildWithSymbl #SymblGiveaway

Option #2 – Process Topics using Postman (mp4 version)

Step 1 – Sign in to your Symbl.ai account OR sign up HERE (it’s free).

Step 2 – Open up Postman on your browser/device and download the Symbl.ai API collection or explore the public workspace online in Postman.

Step 3. Grab both your `appId` and your `appSecret` from your Symbl.ai account to authenticate with Postman.

Step 4. Select your favorite interview (you will need a .mp4 file) If you need to convert a video to a .mp4 file follow these steps HERE.

Step 5. On Postman, once you’ve received your authentication token (Step 3), navigate to the Async APIs folder and make a POST request to the Video – Submit Video File (mp4) API. Once the request is completed, you should receive your conversationID

Step 6. Under the Async APIs folder, make a GET request to the “Check request status” API (processing time varies depending on how large the file is). Job status should show “completed” to move forward.

Step 7. Navigate to the Conversation APIs folder to find the Topics API and make a simple REST endpoint call to:

‘GET https://api.symbl.ai/v1/conversations/{conversationID}/topics’

Step 8. Tweet a screenshot to @symbldotai or post on LinkedIn tagging Symbl.ai of the topics you generated from the interview with the hashtags #BuildWithSymbl #SymblGiveaway

Tweets/posts must be posted by Saturday, April 30 to qualify.

**We will randomly select one winner on Monday, May 2.

Best of luck, and thanks in advance to those participating and helping us constantly improve our APIs. Feel free to leave us your feedback once you have completed, we’d love to hear your thoughts!

Additional Resources:

• Reach out to us on Slack
• GET Topics
• POST Video API
• POST Audio API
• Check out our Symbl.ai 101 video

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We’re challenging you to take a verse from your favorite love song and generate the sentiment from it — should take less than 5 minutes. To participate in the challenge, follow the instructions below. We have provided two options of ways you can complete the challenge, both equally fast and simple:

1. Using Node.js, or
2. Using Postman

Option #1 – Process sentiments using Node.js

Step 1 – Sign in to your Symbl.ai account OR sign up HERE (it’s free)

Step 2 – Install Node.js on your machine: https://nodejs.org/en/download/ (skip if already installed).

Step 3 – Create a new folder on your device and paste the sentiment script and package.json file in it. Access HERE

Step 4 – Create a .txt file with a verse from your favorite love song and save it in the same folder as the one you created above.

Step 5 – Open the terminal application on your machine and move to the folder in which you have pasted the script.

Step 6 – Grab both your `appId` and your `appSecret` from your Symbl.ai account and insert it in the script.

Step 7 – Run the script using “node script_name.js filename.txt” command.

Step 8 – Tweet a screenshot to @symbldotai or post on LinkedIn tagging Symbl.ai of the sentiment you generated from the song verse with the hashtags #BuildWithSymbl #SymblChallenge

Option #2 – Process Sentiments using Postman

Step 1 – Sign in to your Symbl.ai account OR sign up HERE (it’s free).

Step 2 – Open up Postman on your browser/device and download the Symbl.ai API collection or explore the public workspace online in Postman.

Step 3. Grab both your `appId` and your `appSecret` from your Symbl.ai account to authenticate with Postman.

Step 4. Google your favorite love song and copy the verse of your choice, paste it in any line break tool. https://www.textfixer.com/tools/remove-line-breaks.php (We’ll need to get rid of the paragraph breaks)

Step 5. On Postman, once you’ve received your authentication token (Step 3), navigate to the Async APIs and find the Text API. Copy and paste the JSON below into the Body of the request.

{
   "name": "Song Lyrics",
   "messages": [
     {
       "payload": {
         "content": "<song lyrics go here>",
         "contentType": "text/plain"
       }
     }
   ]
}

Copy and paste your song verse in the JSON where it says song lyrics go here

{
   "name": "Song Lyrics",
   "messages": [
     {
       "payload": {
         "content": "Baby it's you You're the one I love You're the one I need You're the only one I see Come on baby it's you You're the one that gives your all You're the one I can always call When I need to make everything stop Finally you put my love on top",
         "contentType": "text/plain"
       }
     }
   ]
}

Step 6. Hit send to make the POST request and receive your conversationID

Step 7. Copy your conversationID and navigate to the Conversation APIs to find the Messages (Transcript) API. Make a simple REST endpoint call to

‘GET https://api.symbl.ai/v1/conversations/{conversationID}/messages?sentiment=true’

Step 8 – Tweet a screenshot to @symbldotai or post on LinkedIn tagging Symbl.ai of the sentiment you generated from the song verse with the hashtags #BuildWithSymbl #SymblChallenge

Tweets/posts must be posted by March 14 to qualify.

**We will randomly select four winners on March 15, 2022.

Best of luck, and many thanks in advance to those participating and helping us constantly improve our APIs. Feel free to leave us your feedback once you have completed, we’d love to hear your thoughts!

Additional Resources:

• Reach out to us on Slack
• POST Text API
• How to use sentiment analysis
• Check out our Symbl.ai 101 video

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As 2021 comes to an end, we’d like to look back and reflect on the whirlwind of events and milestones we’ve had this year. We could not have done it without you.

Let’s dive into the key 2021 moments (there’s quite a bit):

Dev Community

The core of Symbl.ai is our developer community, and we are pumped to have had a successful year with you all, check out the highlights below.

• Integrate to Disrupt Hackathon

Symbl.ai launched the Integrate to Disrupt Hackathon back in May, where participants were tasked to build disruptive apps or workflows with Symbl.ai’s Conversation Intelligence platform. Check out our closing ceremony with a hackathon recap, project submission features, and winners announcements here!

• Symbl.ai’s Postman Public Workspace

Check out our public workspace where you can easily test out our APIs and field more ideas in building new conversation-driven experiences through connections, transformations, or visualizations with AI!

• TADHack Global 2021

Symbl.ai was proud to partner with Telnyx, a leading CPaaS API platform, to host a bonus category — AI-Driven Communications Hack, at TADHack Global 2021. $4,000 USD was rewarded to a team capable of combining Telnyx and Symbl.ai APIs. Congrats to our winners and thank you to all who participated! Check them out and learn more about their impressive submissions here.

• Slack Community

We are ecstatic to have almost 1000+ members in our Slack community, thank you! Come join us on Slack to meet and exchange ideas with other developers, get support on a certain task or project, receive insightful resources, and more. Join here.

APIs and SDKs

Take a look at this year’s releases in Beta, Labs, and SDKs! Symbl.ai’s Labs is a new initiative where our data scientists and engineers dream up new AI capabilities to further push the limits of understanding and extracting intelligence from any and all natural human conversations.

• Symbl.ai’s Trackers API (Beta)

Our Trackers API allows you to track specific keywords, phrases, or intents in a conversation, helping you to identify emerging trends and gauge the nature of interactions. Easily set up and configure your own Trackers by providing some commonly used phrases, sentences, and keywords. Check it out.

• Summary API (Labs)

Easily distill online or offline conversations, of any length and of multiple speakers, into succinct summaries to capture key discussion points with our Summary API. Check it out.

• Symbl.ai Python SDK

With the Symbl.ai Python SDK, you can generate Speech-to-Text (messages) and get intelligent insights such as action items, topics, and questions with minimal coding effort.

• PII and Redaction API (Labs)

Identify and redact PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data from conversations and insights. This feature is currently a part of Symbl.ai Labs, so try it out and let us know what you think! Check it out.

• Topic Hierarchy API (Beta)

Automatically convert speech to structure with context — converting to topics and sub-topics across the conversation. There are typically multiple topics discussed in a conversation, Symbl.ai’s Topics Hierarchy API finds a pattern within the conversation to organize those topics for better analysis and consumption.

• Symbl.ai JavaScript SDK

Symbl.ai’s programmable JS SDK will allow you to add Conversation Intelligence capabilities right into your web apps and meeting platforms. Get your follow ups, action items, and topics in a breeze.

Platform

Your experience on the Symbl.ai platform is something we highly value and hope we deliver on. You spoke, and we listened! This year we added some really cool features to elevate your experience by providing the following:

• Symbl.ai API Playground

See Symbl.ai’s APIs in action without any coding or launching a 3rd party testing tool. See how Symbl.ai APIs (text or streaming audio) work in a pre-built UI experience directly within your account. Check it out.

• Symbl.ai Streaming API Logs

API Logs provides developers with a user interface for monitoring, debugging and/or visualizing API usage on the Symbl.ai Streaming API. You can check inputs and outputs associated with your calls as well as whether an API call was successful or not, reducing any down time. Take a look.

• API Usage Dashboard

This feature is a dashboard for monitoring and visualizing your API usage, so you can easily analyze how you are using our APIs on a daily basis. Symbl.ai’s API Usage dashboard displays API usage on the four basic source types of Symbl.ai: Streaming API, Telephony API, Async Video and Audio API, and Async Text API.

Documentation

As a developer, reliable documentation is a MUST. Our docs team strives to make information easily accessible and consumable to help you learn quickly and get you started. Check out a couple of added features!

• Docs Change Log

We continuously add new features and enhancements, fix critical bugs, and regularly deploy changes to improve performance. You can keep tabs of our latest updates on this page here.

• Open Source Docs

Symbl.ai Docs are now open source! We value and encourage your feedback to make sure your experience is as seamless as possible. If you think we can be doing something better, let us know! Come contribute and make a pull request here.

Company

As a company, 2021 has brought so many wins, from rapid growth of both our US and India teams leading to fun offsites, to establishing great partnerships with amazing companies in the RTC, CPaaS, and engagement sector, and so much more. Check out these wins below!

• Agora + Symbl.ai Partnership

Symbl.ai officially partnered up with Agora to accelerate the rise of more intelligent and robust real-time engagement (RTE) app experiences. Developers and businesses using Agora to build audio and video streaming apps will now be able to leverage Conversation Intelligence with just a few lines of code. Learn more.

• Symbl.ai named top 15 AI Companies by Forbes

Symbl.ai was placed on Forbes “Top 15 Innovative AI Companies Driving Exponential Shifts,” list. We’re extremely proud to be on this list alongside other innovative companies making waves in the space of AI. Read more about it.

• Series A Funding

In November, we were proud to announce that we received a $17 million Series A funding round led by Great Point Ventures with additional participation from current investors Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, Crosscut Ventures, and Flying Fish Ventures!

Check out the full press release HERE to learn more about where we plan to scale with this new funding and more!

• Symbl.ai for Startups Program

We recently just launched a brand new program — Symbl.ai for Startups! For all pre-seed to seed stage companies that are building the next generation of conversation-centric AI products and services, this is for you. We’re here to provide support and guidance and help you scale those efforts even further. Learn more about it HERE.

Symbl.ai in the Marketplace

• AWS Marketplace

Symbl.ai is available in the AWS Marketplace. Go beyond basic speech recognition and transcription outputs. Integrate Symbl.ai with your favorite AWS tools such as Transcribe, Chime, S3 Bucket, and more directly from your AWS account. Check it out.

• Agora Extensions Marketplace

Symbl.ai is now available in Agora’s new Extensions Marketplace! Developers can easily integrate Symbl.ai’s conversation intelligence capabilities into their android apps as it provides scalable, secure speech recognition and contextual analytics to build differentiated experiences from voice, video, and text data in real-time.

Industry Discussions

Symbl.ai was proud to have sponsored awesome events focused around the space of AI/ML, voice technologies, APIs, and more. Take a look at a few we presented at this year!

• Dev Innovation Summit 2021

In August, we were proud sponsors of Dev Innovation Summit 2021 hosted by DevNetwork. Our CEO and co-founder, Surbhi Rathore, shared how you can maximize the potential of your conversation data across many verticals with CI. Learn how your specific use case or business can leverage the power of Conversation Intelligence in the following discussion. Watch now.

• API World 2021

Another awesome DevNetwork event we sponsored was API World 2021 in October! Our co-founder and CTO, Toshish Jawale, chatted about conversation intelligence products and APIs, the difference between domain-specific and domain agnostic CI, and real-life examples of how CI is leveraged in everyday apps. Watch now.

• VOICE Summit 2021

Closing out the year, we sponsored VOICE Summit 2021 where we focused on how conversational AI is transforming the customer experience. Our Head of Marketing, William Vuong, explored the possibilities of leveraging Conversation Intelligence for extracting useful insights and data from customer conversations across other areas of your company. Watch now.

We’re ready for you, 2022!

Again, thank you so much for making this an awesome year! We’re looking forward to this next chapter of #GROWTH alongside you all. We wish you all a safe and Happy Holidays, see you next year!

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1. Sign in to your Symbl.ai account. If you don’t have an account, create one for free – it only takes 2 mins, and you get free credits to use.

2. Review our Summarization and POST Video API Docs

3. Submit your favorite video to Symbl.ai’s Async API. This will return a "conversationId".

• If you have a locally downloaded file, follow the steps in https://docs.symbl.ai/docs/async-api/overview/video/post-video. Make sure to update your endpoints like so: POST https://api-labs.symbl.ai/v1/process/video?enableSummary=true
• If you have a URL, follow the steps in  https://docs.symbl.ai/docs/async-api/overview/video/post-video-url. Make sure to update your endpoints like so: POST https://api-labs.symbl.ai/v1/process/video/url?enableSummary=true

Add the following 2 modifications in order to enable the summarization feature!

• Make sure to update Symbl.ai API’s base URL from "https://api.symbl.ai" to "https://api-labs.symbl.ai".
• Make sure to add the query parameter of ?enableSummary=true.

4. When the video is finished processing, you can extract summarization by making a simple REST endpoint call to ‘GET https://api-labs.symbl.ai/v1/conversations/{conversationId}/summary’. Below is a code snippet in Javascript with the ‘request’ module.

const request = require('request'); const authToken = AUTH_TOKEN;;
     url: `https://api-labs.symbl.ai/v1/conversations/{conversationId}/summary`,
     headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${authToken}` },
     json: true }, (err, response, body) => {
     console.log(body); });

5. Tweet a screenshot to @symbldotai or post on LinkedIn tagging Symbl.ai of the summary text you generated with the hashtags #BuildWithSymbl #SymblGiveaway, along with a link (only if you used a video URL) to the video you processed

6. Tweets/posts must be posted by December 29, 2021 to qualify.

**We will randomly select two winners on Dec 30, 2021.

Additional Resources:

• How to get a Summary using Async API
• Symbl.ai’s POST Video URL API
• Check out our Symbl.ai 101 video
• Join our Slack Community

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