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Beyond the browser

Outgrow the browser's Web Speech API

The browser's SpeechRecognition is fine for a demo, but it's Chromium-biased, inconsistent across browsers, and gives you no server control. AssemblyAI's streaming speech-to-text gives you production-grade, realtime Speech-to-Text you actually control.

Every browser, same result

One WebSocket pipeline transcribes identically in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox—no Chromium lock-in.

You control the server

Pick your model and where audio is processed instead of handing it to an opaque browser-vendor service with no data agreement.

Built for production

Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime ($0.45/hr) streams 32 languages with speaker labels and consistent accuracy on noisy, accented, and technical speech; Universal Streaming covers English at $0.15/hr.

Metaview
Ashby
Cluely
Genio
Siro

36%

improvement in close rate

See case study
LiveKit
EliseAI
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
EliseAI
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

Swap the browser API for one you control

Capture mic audio the same way you do today, but stream it to AssemblyAI over a WebSocket instead of the browser engine. You get real-time turns that work in every browser—and you choose the model and where the audio is processed.

Start building free

No credit card required

Streaming word error rate

The browser's recognizer is a black box. Streaming word error rate measures real-time accuracy against a human reference, so you can see exactly what you gain by moving off it.

Normalized WER on the voice-agent caller corpus, mean of three noise conditions.

*Lower is better*
Voice-agent word error rate, realtime
AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime
5.19%
Soniox Realtime
6.83%
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime
7.78%
Speechmatics Enhanced Realtime
8.14%
Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live
8.48%
AWS Transcribe Streaming
8.58%
Deepgram Nova-3
8.64%

Source: AssemblyAI realtime benchmarks technical report v2026.09 (assemblyai.com/benchmarks), data 18 Aug–24 Sep 2026.