# Rev

> Rev is an American speech-to-text company that pairs the world's most accurate AI speech recognition with a global network of human transcriptionists to deliver transcription, captions, and subtitles at up to 99% accuracy. Founded in 2010 by six MIT-connected entrepreneurs, Rev serves over 100,000 customers and more than a million users across legal, media, education, and enterprise, and has increasingly focused its AI on the legal market with tools for depositions, evidence, and case prep.

- **Founded:** 2010
- **Headquarters:** Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founders:** Jason Chicola (Co-Founder & CEO), Paul Huck (Co-Founder & CTO), Dan Kokotov (Co-Founder), David Abrameto (Co-Founder), Josh Breinlinger (Co-Founder), Mark Chen (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~4,000 employees across multiple continents, plus a large global network of freelance transcriptionists
- **Products:** Human Transcription, AI Transcription, Captions & Subtitles, Rev AI (Speech-to-Text API), Reverb ASR & Diarization
- **Notable:** PC Magazine 'Editor's Choice' (2018) and named best transcription service of 2019, Released Reverb (2024), an open-weight ASR and diarization model that outperformed the state-of-the-art on long-form English speech, Trained on 200,000 hours of human-transcribed audio - the largest such corpus used for an open-source model

## Products & services

- **Human Transcription** — Transcripts produced by a global network of freelance transcriptionists, reviewed for up to 99% accuracy.
- **AI Transcription** — Fast, automated transcription powered by Rev's proprietary ASR, launched in 2018.
- **Captions & Subtitles** — Closed captions and multilingual subtitles for video, used for accessibility and global distribution.
- **Rev AI (Speech-to-Text API)** — Developer API offering Rev's automatic speech recognition for building speech into applications.
- **Reverb ASR & Diarization** — Open-weight ASR and speaker-diarization models trained on 200,000 hours of human-transcribed English audio.
- **Legal & Deposition Tools** — AI-assisted deposition summaries, evidence analysis, and case prep, expanded via the 2025 SmartDepo acquisition.
- **Rev Subscription & AI Notetaker** — Subscription offering and meeting transcription/notetaking launched in 2024 for recurring users.

## Achievements

- PC Magazine 'Editor's Choice' (2018) and named best transcription service of 2019
- Released Reverb (2024), an open-weight ASR and diarization model that outperformed the state-of-the-art on long-form English speech
- Trained on 200,000 hours of human-transcribed audio - the largest such corpus used for an open-source model
- Built a two-sided marketplace of tens of thousands of remote transcriptionists before remote work was mainstream
- Serves enterprise names including Google, NBC, Amazon, and BuzzFeed

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Released Reverb, open-weight ASR and speaker-diarization models that beat state-of-the-art on long-form English speech.
- **2024** — Launched Rev Subscription and an AI Notetaker for recurring meeting transcription.
- **2025** — Acquired SmartDepo to deepen AI tools for legal depositions and case prep.

## Links

- Website: https://rev.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/rev-com
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/rev
- GitHub: https://huggingface.co/Revai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Revcom
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/revdotcom

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Last updated: 2026-06-08