New Universal-3.5 Pro is here. Learn more: Async Realtime
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, real-time transcription you actually own.

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 data zone instead of handing audio to an opaque browser-vendor service with no data agreement.

Built for production

Real-time streaming with speaker labels and consistent accuracy on noisy, accented, and technical speech.

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

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 own the model, the data zone, and the SLA.

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.

Streaming word error rate on English audio.

*Lower is better*
AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime
5.53%
Deepgram Flux
8.87%
Deepgram Nova-3
9.39%
Cartesia
10.10%

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