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[lily-learns-finnish]

Verb of the day: ylpeillä

ylpeillä jollakin = to boast about something

Hän ylpeili sillä, että ... = He boasted that...

Hän ylpeili sillä, että hän muisti valokuvantarkasti kaikki asiakirjat. = He boasted that he remember all documents with photographic accuracy.

Nainen ylpeili teollaan sosiaalisessa mediassa. = The woman bragged about the act/action in social media.

[lily-learns-finnish]

uhata = to threaten

uhkailla = to threaten

uhitella = to threaten, to defy

uhmata = to defy

uhrata = to sacrifice

[karhunvattu]

Nyt on aikaa sukeltaa syvemmin puhekielen verbeihin, sillä verbit ovat yksi kielen tärkeimmistä ja haastavimmista osa-alueista.

(In Finnish) the 30 most common verbs in spoken Finnish (puhekieli)

[nuadox]

AI-based transcription and captioning platform Verbit raises $60M Series C

- By Nuadox Crew -

New York-based Verbit, an AI-powered transcription and captioning platform, announced today its $60M Series C round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from existing investors Vertex Ventures, Stripes, HV Ventures, and ClalTech, as well as new investor Vertex Growth.

The round comes within 10 months of Verbit's Series B investment of $31M, bringing the 3.5-year-old company's total capital raised to more than $100 million, with a revenue run-rate that has grown five-fold since 2019.

The company will use this latest investment round to further fuel its significant growth by continuing to innovate its data-driven product capabilities and by pursuing M&A opportunities. The company also plans to unlock new verticals, increase the number of languages it supports, boost hiring, and expand its international reach, helping customers throughout the world accelerate their digital transformation.

Verbit's transcription and captioning platform leverages a unique hybrid-model of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – specifically Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) – and a network of 22,000 human transcribers to achieve 99.9% accuracy and industry-leading turnaround time ten-times faster than the industry standard. Its cutting-edge AI technology – which transcribes speakers regardless of accent, detects domain-specific terms, filters out background noises and echoes, and more – generates detailed, professional transcriptions and captioning. This acoustic, linguistic, and contextual data is then thoroughly checked by Verbit's professional, hand-picked human transcribers, who maintain quality assurance by editing and reviewing the material and incorporating customer-supplied notes, guidelines and more.

The company has more than 400 enterprise-grade customers in the legal and higher-education industries, including several world-leading universities and national court reporting agencies.

"Like nearly every market segment, the education, legal, and media and entertainment industries have had to quickly move to a remote environment. As a result, the need for AI-driven, real-time and accurate transcription services has skyrocketed," says Jai Das, Managing Director and President at Sapphire Ventures and the newest member of Verbit's Board of Directors. "Verbit combines the speed and low cost of Automatic Speech Recognition technology with the accuracy of human transcription to solve this massive problem for companies and organizations in these markets. We're excited to partner with CEO Tom Livne and his team as they expand to additional segments and deliver a leading platform for transcription-based applications."

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a quick shift to online learning, as well as remote depositions and work, which has dramatically increased the need for professional digital transcription solutions. This reality presented a unique opportunity for Verbit. This shift will only continue to boost growing expectations that every video come equipped with captions and transcriptions – powered by advanced speech-to-text and voice technologies – to meet the disparate needs of industries and users.

Source: Verbit

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How to Join Verbit

1. Click on the link

https://verbit.ai/register/

2. There will be an English Cognitive exam of subject-verb agreement.

3. There will be a short file that will be sent to your email, and once you’re done with the test, you’ll have to wait for the result.

NOTE: Exam results usually take a while. Minimum of one month wait time upto a maximum of  6 months.  Also, make sure that the e-mail you used is connected to a Paypal account because that’s where you will receive your pay.

[lily-learns-finnish]

ottaa Verbit

ottaa yhteen: to engage, to fight, to cross swords

Poliisi ja mielenosoittajat ottivat yhteen. - The police and demonstrators clashed.

ottaa yhteyttä: to get in contact

Otan yhteyttä hänen kanssa ensi viikolla. - I will get in contact with him next week. 

ottaa kantaa: to take a stance, or a position

Poliitikkojen pitää ottaa kantaa hoidon priorisointiin. - Politicians should take a stand about care prioritisation. 

ottaa huomioon: to take note of, to take into account

Mitä yli 70-vuotiaan pitää ottaa huomioon koronavirustilanteessa? - What things must over 70s take notice of during the coronavirus?

ottaa käyttöön: to put into use

Työnhakusivusto otti käyttöön sukupuolineutraalit ammattinimikkeet. - Work search web page started using general neutral job titles.

ottaa lääke: to take medicine 

Mihin aikaan päivästä otan lääkkeen? - What time of the day do I take the medicine?

[lily-learns-finnish]

Verbit Rektiot #3

ELATIVE (-sta/stä)

1. poiketa - to differ from, to deviate from

Tämä ei ole syy poiketa rajoituksesta. - This isn’t a reason to deviate from the restrictions. 

2. myöhästyä - to be late (intrans)

Hän myöhästyi koulusta tänään. - He was late to school today. 

3. erottaa - to fire, to break up (trans)

Valitettavasti hänet erotettiin työpaikastaan. - Unfortunately hän was fired from his work place.

4. epäillä - to suspect (trans)

Minä epäilen häntä vakavasta rikoksesta. 

5. erehtyä - to err, to make a mistake (trans)

Hän erehtyi ovesta ja meni väärään huoneeseen. - He mistook door and went into the wrong room.

6. heijastua - to be reflected (intrans)

Vedestä heijastui hänen oma kuvansa. - His own face was reflected in the water. {His own face was a reflection in the water.}

7. hikoilla - to sweat (intrans)

Hän hikoili jännityksestä. - He was sweating from excitement/nervousness. 

8. huolehtia - to take care of 

Sinä huolehdit minusta hyvin. - You took care of me well. 

9. ilahtua - to become happy/delighted (intrans)

Ilahduin lahjasta. - I was delighted with the present. (I become happy from the present).

10. irrota - to come off, to come loose (intrans)

Takista irtosi nappi. - A button came loose from the coat.  

11. johtua - to stem from, to originate from (intrans)

Tämä päätös johtui siitä, että hän ei ollut valmis valmistua nyt. - This decision stems from the fact that she/he was not ready to graduate now. 

12. jutella - to chat

Hän ei jutellut tästä minun kanssa ollenkaan. - He didn’t chat with me about that at all. 

13. kadehtia - to be jealous of, to envy (someone) {huom: person you are jealous of is in partitive!}

Minä kadehdin häntä lottovoitosta. - I was jealous of her due to the lotto win.

14. selvitä - to survive, to get through

Sinä selviät tästä. - You will get through this. 

15. tarjota - to offer

Tarjosin talosta puoli miljoonaa. - I offered half a milloin for the house. 

16. päästää irti - to let out

Hän päästi irti minusta.- He let go of me.