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Medical Mode

Medical transcription that gets the terminology right

Medical Mode is a domain add-on for our speech-to-text API that catches the drug names, dosages, and conditions general models miss—reducing medical entity errors by 87% versus the base Universal-3 Pro model. Set one parameter, no pipeline changes.

Catches the terms that matter

Tuned for medical entities, it corrects medication names, procedures, conditions, and dosages that general models get wrong.

One parameter, no rewrite

Turn it on by setting the domain to medical-v1 on the same async or streaming call—no changes to your existing pipeline.

Built for clinical environments

Pairs with speaker diarization and PII redaction. A Business Associate Addendum (BAA) is available and signable in minutes without a sales call—plus SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022.

Metaview
Ashby
Cluely
Genio
Siro

36%

improvement in close rate

See case study
LiveKit
Earmark
Commure
Dovetail
Fireflies

“The new Universal-3.5 Pro speech model from AssemblyAI is best so far in terms of accuracy, latency, and language switching.”

Retell
CallRail
Apollo.io
ClickUp
Calabrio

80%

increase in customer satisfaction

HeyGen
Granola
Siro
JotPsych
Granola

“Assembly has saved us countless hours managing models, and provided exceptional accuracy.”

Metaview
Ashby
Cluely
Genio
Siro

36%

improvement in close rate

See case study
LiveKit
Earmark
Commure
Dovetail
Fireflies

“The new Universal-3.5 Pro speech model from AssemblyAI is best so far in terms of accuracy, latency, and language switching.”

Retell
CallRail
Apollo.io
ClickUp
Calabrio

80%

increase in customer satisfaction

HeyGen
Granola
Siro
JotPsych
Granola

“Assembly has saved us countless hours managing models, and provided exceptional accuracy.”

Quickstart

Add Medical Mode minutes after you sign up

Add one parameter—set the domain to medical-v1—to any pre-recorded or streaming request and Medical Mode applies automatically. Sign up free, drop in your API key, and pipe clean transcripts into an LLM for SOAP notes or summaries.

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No credit card required

Medical missed entity rate

On medical audio, missed entity rate measures how often medications, dosages, and conditions are dropped or garbled—the errors that break a downstream note.

Missed entity rate on medical audio.

*Lower is better*
Missed entity rate (medical audio)
AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime
10.46%
Deepgram Nova-3
14.33%
Azure
15.65%
OpenAI GPT-4o Transcribe
25.72%

Source: AssemblyAI published benchmarks — assemblyai.com/benchmarks.