Voice Hackathon Week: Hack into Dictation

​That little microphone icon is appearing in every app you use. Dictation has gone from an accessibility feature to a default input method. AssemblyAI built an API to help you accelerate the process of building a dictation app, and help you type 3x faster than a keyboard.

AssemblyAI's API can dictate 18 languages and deliver clean output with the "ums" and "ahs" removed, so your products get clean input.

​Start the week with a live build. Our Voice AI engineers walk you through a working dictation app from scratch, then stay on to answer questions.

​Watch the Dictation API Demo →

​Free to attend, and open whether or not you're competing.

Who should participate?

​Open to everyone, but you should definitely join if you’re:

• ​an AI/ML engineer or software engineer looking for something new to build

• ​building AI agents or AI-native applications

• ​experimenting with memory, context retrieval, or knowledge systems

• ​interested in voice applications

​​The details

• ​September 9-13, 2026

• ​Online

• ​Our Dictation API endpoint (in beta)
  https://dictation.assemblyai.com/transcribe

• ​Teams of 1-4

• ​$500 total in prizes + Credits

• ​$50 each in credits on AssemblyAI Developer Platform

​Venue: Join Discord Server

​Limited Capacity

​Seats are limited. Request an invite to join the community building the future of voice AI!

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