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Voice AI API

Build Voice AI apps developers trust

Production-grade speech-to-text and Speech Understanding in a single API. Ship accurate transcription, diarization, and audio intelligence—fast.

Accuracy you can trust

Industry-leading word accuracy and speaker diarization, validated on real-world audio—fewer corrections, fewer customer complaints.

Build in an afternoon

Clean SDKs for Python, JavaScript, and more. One API call to transcribe; one to add summarization, sentiment, or redaction.

Scales without surprises

No concurrency limits, no throttles. The same platform carries you from your first 100 hours to 400,000 a month.

Metaview
Ashby
Cluely
Genio
Siro

36%

improvement in close rate

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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

Run speech-to-text minutes after you sign up

Create a free account and put speech-to-text to work right away. Test it in the no-code playground, then copy a ready-made request into your app.

Start building free

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Word accuracy rate

Word accuracy rate is the share of words transcribed correctly against a verified reference transcript—the standard measure of speech-to-text quality.

Average word accuracy across 26 real-world datasets.

*Higher is better*
AssemblyAI Universal-3
93.30%
OpenAI Whisper Large v3
91.70%
Microsoft Azure Batch
91.20%
Google Latest-long
90.80%

Source: AssemblyAI published benchmarks, March 2026.