#speech-to-text

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, released October 28, against Whisper large-v3 and Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 on licence, languages, size, hardware and WER.

Mistral's Voice Agents SDK runs transcription, a text model and speech as one managed pipeline at $0.04 or $0.08 a minute. Browser vs phone, tools and costs.

Mistral's Voxtral 3 is four separate speech models in Public Preview. What each does, what it costs per minute or character, and what preview leaves unsettled.

List prices for one hour of audio or video across nine providers, from OpenAI and Google to Alibaba and the speech vendors, with every conversion shown.

Three voice moves landed in one week. How to assemble a duplex layer, a transcription layer and CRM write-back when the newest model has no public API.

GPT Transcribe lists at $0.0045 a minute and posts 3.3% word error rate on an independent leaderboard, where Scribe v2 scores lower and Nova-3 runs faster.

A vendor's 1.5-2x accuracy claim can run on its own unpublished harness while independent leaderboards rank the same models very differently. How to tell.

Wispr Flow, superwhisper and Aqua Voice compared on architecture, listed pricing and the accuracy claims none of them ever benchmark against each other.

Whisper-family engines, VoiceInk and Handy against the subscription apps: what open-source dictation matches today, and where paid tools still earn the fee.

Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 ships at 0.70s to first audio and $0.08/min on the raw model API. What speech-to-speech buys you, and what a cascade buys you instead.

Run speech-to-text locally for $0 per minute with open Whisper. Compare whisper.cpp, faster-whisper, WhisperX and Parakeet, and find the cloud break-even.