{"slug": "medical-speech-to-text-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai", "title": "Medical Speech-to-Text Now Available for Telnyx Voice AI", "summary": "Omi Health's medical speech-to-text model omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1 is now available as a Telnyx STT engine, Telnyx announced, bringing self-hosted, medical-tuned transcription to voice AI workflows. The model, a fine-tune of nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 that runs on the same self-hosted Parakeet stack as nvidia/parakeet-v3, targets clinical dialogue, medication names and dosages, and is reachable via transcription_start, TeXML <Gather> or <Transcription>, WebSocket streaming, AI Assistants transcription settings, or the OpenAI SDK-compatible Speech-to-Text REST API. On streaming surfaces it accepts linear16 or linear32 audio at 16 kHz and returns final transcripts only, with no interim or partial results and endpointing ignored; the REST endpoint transcribes synchronously, forces mono, and caps uploads at 100 MB.", "body_md": "[Contact us](https://telnyx.com/contact-us)\n\n[Log in](https://portal.telnyx.com)\n\nOmi Health's medical speech-to-text model, `omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1`, is now available as a Telnyx STT engine, bringing self-hosted, medical-tuned transcription to voice AI workflows. Built as a fine-tune of `nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2`, the model targets clinical dialogue, medication names, and dosages, and runs on the same self-hosted Parakeet stack as `nvidia/parakeet-v3`.\n\n`omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1` is trained on clinical dialogue and transcribes medication names, dosages, and medical terminology more accurately than general-purpose models.`transcription_start`, TeXML `<Gather>` or `<Transcription>`, WebSocket streaming, AI Assistants transcription settings, or the Speech-to-Text REST API for file transcription.`linear16` or `linear32` audio at 16 kHz.\nFor Call Control, POST to `transcription_start`:\n\n```\n{\n  \"transcription_engine\": \"Parakeet\",\n  \"transcription_engine_config\": {\n    \"transcription_engine\": \"Parakeet\",\n    \"transcription_model\": \"omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1\"\n  }\n}\n```\n\nFor TeXML `<Gather>`:\n\n```\n<Gather transcriptionEngine=\"Parakeet\" model=\"omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1\">\n  <Say>Please describe your symptoms after the tone.</Say>\n</Gather>\n```\n\nFor WebSocket streaming:\n\n```\nwss://api.telnyx.com/v2/speech-to-text/transcription?transcription_engine=Parakeet&model=omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1&input_format=linear16&sample_rate=16000\n```\n\nOn streaming surfaces, `omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1` accepts `linear16` or `linear32` audio at 16 kHz and returns final transcripts only. No interim or partial results. Endpointing is ignored.\n\nFor file transcription, POST to the Speech-to-Text REST API. It's OpenAI SDK compatible, so swapping `base_url` and `api_key` is enough for existing Whisper-style code:\n\n``` python\nfrom openai import OpenAI\n\nclient = OpenAI(\n    api_key=\"YOUR_TELNYX_API_KEY\",\n    base_url=\"https://api.telnyx.com/v2\",\n)\n\nresult = client.audio.transcriptions.create(\n    model=\"omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1\",\n    file=open(\"visit-recording.mp3\", \"rb\"),\n)\n```\n\nThe REST endpoint transcribes synchronously, forces mono, and caps uploads at 100 MB.\n\n**Learn more** in the [Speech-to-Text models docs](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/voice/stt/models), the [Speech-to-Text REST API overview](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/voice/stt/rest-api), or the [AI Assistants transcription settings](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/ai-assistants/transcription-settings).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-speech-to-text-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai", "canonical_source": "https://telnyx.com/release-notes/omi-health-medical-stt-voice-ai", "published_at": "2026-09-22 12:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 20:17:52.292370+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Telnyx", "Omi Health", "omi-health/omi-med-stt-v1", "nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2", "nvidia/parakeet-v3", "Parakeet", "OpenAI", "Whisper"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-speech-to-text-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-speech-to-text-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-speech-to-text-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-speech-to-text-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai.jsonld"}}