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Re:Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-spee... by nemima on Saturday January 24, 2026 @04:43AM (#46742244)
If propeietary/SaaS fits your use case I can reccomend Speechmatics. Has a wider range of languages than a lot of the competition: https://speechmatics.com

(Full disclosure I'm an engineer there)

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Re:Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-spee... by sgt on Saturday January 24, 2026 @07:51AM (#46743134)
Will it work with say - someone speaking English with some hindi mixed in? I'm not from there so I'm not sure how prevalent that is, but I've been told it's quite common to "mix it up" in India, and I need to probably cater for that use case.

PS if you can share your email I'll pop you an email about Speechmatics. I tried the English version and it's impressive.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-spee... by nemima on Saturday January 24, 2026 @08:27AM (#46743337)
This is definitely the sort of use case we aim to support! I would need to check about Hindi specifically, but we have several bilingual models already with more to come:

https://docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/languages#trans...

Drop me an email at [email protected] and we can chat about further details :)

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