Hamlet taps AssemblyAI to turn 100K+ local government meetings into civic intelligence
AssemblyAI · x · 2026-10-21
Civic tech startup Hamlet launched 10,000+ profiles for residents and journalists, tracking real estate and rezoning decisions made in local government meetings almost nobody attends (city councils, planning commissions, school boards).
- Built on AssemblyAI's Universal-3.5 Pro speech recognition and speaker diarization models, converting long meeting recordings into structured "who said what" data.
- Key numbers: 3x value on speaker identification; 100,000+ meeting transcripts indexed; 10,000+ profiles at launch.
- An AssemblyAI customer story showing voice AI landing in journalism and civic oversight.
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