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Summary

Discord, a popular communication platform for gamers and communities, now features a custom JavaScript bot that utilizes Gladia's real-time transcription API to transcribe speech directly on the server. This bot allows users to transcribe voice in real-time during Discord voice channel sessions, providing the ability to review discussions and extract insights, similar to virtual meeting platforms. It can also serve as a moderation tool to detect hate speech and potentially ban users, and when combined with tools like ChatGPT, it can generate command-based notes and meeting summaries. Setting up the bot involves registering it, retrieving an API key from Gladia, integrating the code, and configuring permissions on Discord. Gladia offers an optimized version of the Whisper API, distinguished by its accuracy, speed, multilingual capabilities, and features like speaker diarization and word-level timestamps, aiming to enhance transcription technology to better utilize audio data.