Speech Recognition

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Friday, 28 August 2026

Google AI Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A Speech-to-Text Model Reporting 2.6% Average WER Across 85+ Languages

MarkTechPost 1 month ago 43 ● 6 sources

Google released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, adding two API endpoints for speech-to-text: a live streaming model and a non-streaming model for recorded audio. Reported word error rates are 4.0% for streaming and 2.6% for non-streaming, with 70% faster time to final transcription than Chirp 3. Deployment changes because the service is API-only with no open weights or self-host option, and it requires choosing between modes that trade diarization/timestamps for sub-second latency.

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Model Release Google Language Models Speech Recognition

The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

Hugging Face 1 month ago 23

The Open ASR Leaderboard added two new evaluation sets, Monsoon en-IN and Monsoon hi-IN, to expand ASR testing to Hindi and Indian English with speaker-disjoint public and private splits. Monsoon contains 4,888 speakers across the four splits. Developers can now score models on these datasets (and do private-split evaluation without tuning to the leaderboard), making it easier to measure and reduce performance gaps that are not visible in other leaderboard tests.

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AI Benchmarking Hugging Face Speech Recognition

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