A developer guide argues that teams building AI meeting-notes features should buy hosted transcription from vendors like Deepgram and AssemblyAI and build only the summarization, decision-extraction a…
AssemblyAI's Universal-3.5 Pro speech-to-text model is now available on OpenRouter as `assemblyai/universal-3-5-pro`, served through AssemblyAI's Sync Speech-to-Text API at AssemblyAI's published rate…
Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab introduced Canto, a real-time dictation speech model that achieved the lowest word error rate among all models tested on a 10-hour evaluation set of English-language Wisp…
An AI developer is seeking production-grade advice on designing a real-time voice AI architecture that achieves first-token latency of roughly 500 ms or less while remaining cost-effective and scalabl…
Speakr, a free, open-source, self-hosted transcription platform built by developer Murtaza Nasir, lets users transcribe audio into searchable, AI-summarized notes while keeping data on their own hardw…
A developer built an AI meeting summarizer using Java and Spring AI, integrating OpenAI's Whisper for transcription, AssemblyAI for speaker detection, and GPT-4o-mini for generating structured summari…
AssemblyAI, a voice AI company processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and serving 600M+ inference calls monthly, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Inference team in the United Kingd…
AssemblyAI, a Voice AI company processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and serving 600M+ monthly inference calls, is hiring its first Senior GTM Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $180k…
Realtime voice agents, which combine streaming speech-to-text, a large language model, and text-to-speech in a cascaded pipeline, must achieve a time-to-first-audio (TTFA) of around 200 milliseconds t…
Voice AI systems are shifting from cascaded pipelines to native multimodal speech-to-speech models, but the older architecture remains widely used due to its flexibility, security, and cost advantages…
A recent write-up from researchers at HumeAI found that automatic speech recognition (ASR) models exhibiting benchmark-optimized behavior reproduce erroneous reference transcript text, indicating they…
Automatic subtitling powered by AI has become viable for production companies in 2026, with OpenAI Whisper v4 achieving over 97% accuracy in clean audio conditions for major languages and AssemblyAI o…
Speko, a San Francisco-based voice AI routing layer founded by Beknazar Abdikamalov in 2026, selects speech, language, and synthesis models using language-specific benchmarks, offering a /v1 API that …
A developer outlines a method for EU startups to select a speech-to-text API for supplier invoice transcription, emphasizing cost per accepted invoice over per-minute pricing. The approach involves bu…
AssemblyAI has published a comparison of OpenAI Realtime API alternatives for 2026, highlighting cost unpredictability, transcription accuracy issues, and barge-in quality as key pain points. The comp…
A developer at AssemblyAI argues that the best voice agent API is determined by speech-to-text accuracy, not flashy features, because errors in transcription propagate through the entire pipeline. The…
LiveKit Agents, the open-source framework from LiveKit that powers ChatGPT's voice mode and counts xAI, Salesforce, and 911 dispatch operators among its customers, is trending on GitHub as developers …
Two macOS apps, Vox Dictum and Bonfiyah, offer AI-powered transcription and summarization features, with Vox Dictum emphasizing on-device privacy and Bonfiyah providing conversation analysis and actio…
Granola, an AI note-taking app, documents a SOC 2 Type II certification, encryption in transit and at rest, US AWS hosting, and an organization-wide model-training opt-out, but states it is not HIPAA …
AssemblyAI's 2026 guide to building voice-controlled AI agents identifies orchestration—latency, turn-taking, tool calls, and interruption handling—as the core engineering challenge, not the prompt or…