AssemblyAI's Conformer-1 is making waves with its speech recognition capabilities, boasting near-human-level performance. How did they achieve this feat? By training the model on an impressive 650,000 hours of audio data, equivalent to an entire lifetime or a single day for the collective email readers. With 43% fewer errors on noisy data than other models, a 29% increase in speed, and novel technology at its core, Conformer-1 is leading the charge in cutting-edge speech recognition.