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i believe OSS STT is amazing but htings break udring mulaw and turn detection where closed source models still are ahead
Show HN: Blurt – Open-source macOS dictation app (Swift, MIT)
Models great at coding aren't always great at voice Meet Voice Standard Bench
Show HN: Universal 3.6 Pro – streaming speech-to-text tuned for voice agents
for reasoning it less intelligent model we need fallbacks to more intelligent models with good routing
If you're already routing your LLM calls through OpenRouter, the speech-to-text call at the front of your pipeline now runs on the same key.
50% off list through OpenRouter for the first week: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/aai-on-openrouter
OpenRouter x AssemblyAI: Universal‑3.5 Pro is now available on OpenRouter
Is iPhone 18 Pro Max camera really stands out? Keynote was sharper for sure
This entire cycle should be automated soon.
and still see when I call Dentist, they tell me check with health insurance and ask them add us to portal then I call Dentist again and then make an appointment.
This whole cycle needs to be automated and will be soon!!
Of course, that's not the same with voice, but you won't learn until you make progress.
Dear developers, we are open‑sourcing our dictation app, Blurt
Here's a short clip through our Transcription API versus through the new Dictation API:
- "um so can we uh move the the meeting to thursday i think friday works better actually" - "Can we move the meeting to Friday? That works better."
Traditional transcription models are trained to be verbatim and capture everything you say.
Dictation and Voice Input models need to be aligned for a different task: a cleaned up and properly formatted input to your system or application.
- Voice typing emails and slack messages. - Doctors dictating chart notes. - Voice input to robots and hardware devices. - Coding with your voice.
These are tasks our Dictation API is built for.
We've seen a surge in demand from developers building these types of applications, and the Dictation API now makes it much easier.
It's a simple, low-cost API any developer can use to ship dictation or voice input features and apps within minutes.
- Responses in <200ms - Built on our Universal-3.5 Pro transcription model, ranked #1 for accuracy on independent benchmarks. - Transcribes 30+ languages out of the box and supports language switching. - Include custom formatting instructions on the fly - $0.62 per hour of audio, all in - no token math.
We've also open‑sourced a free Mac dictation app built on the new Dictation API, so you can experience its speed and accuracy firsthand. It's called Blurt.
The first ever API built for dictation;Today we're launching the Dictation API
Coming here as Developer Relations at AssemblyAI, specially where entities need to be maintained such as names from different cultures.
Can we try comparison by switching API call to our Dictation API.
Voice models are not winner take all market unlike LLM APIs
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