Speech-to-Text
Experience industry-leading speech-to-text accuracy with Speech AI models on the cutting-edge of AI research, accessible through a simple API.
Universal-1
State-of-the-art multilingual speech-to-text model
>92.5%
30.4s
12.5M
Industry’s lowest Word Error Rate (WER)
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Learn more*Benchmark performed across 11 datasets, including 8 academic datasets & 3 internally curated datasets representing real world English audio.
Harness best-in-class accuracy and powerful Speech AI capabilities
Async Speech-to-Text
The AssemblyAI API can transcribe pre-recorded audio and/or video files in seconds, with human-level accuracy. Highly scalable to tens of thousands of files in parallel.
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Custom Vocabulary
Boost accuracy for vocabulary that is unique or custom to your specific use case or product.
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Speaker Diarization
Detect the number of speakers in your audio file, with each word in the text associated with its speaker.
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International Language Support
Gain support to transcribe over 99+ languages and counting, including Global English (English and all of its accents).
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Auto Punctuation and Casing
Automatically add casing and punctuation of proper nouns to the transcription text.
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Confidence Scores
Get a confidence score for each word in the transcript.
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Word Timings
View word-by-word timestamps across the entire transcript text.
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Filler Words
Optionally include disfluencies in the transcripts of your audio files.
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Profanity Filtering
Detect and replace profanity in the transcription text with ease.
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Automatic Language Detection
Automatically detect if the dominant language of the spoken audio is supported by our API and route it to the appropriate model for transcription.
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Custom Spelling
Specify how you would like certain words to be spelled or formatted in the transcription text.
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Streaming Speech-to-Text
Transcribe audio streams synchronously with high accuracy and low latency.
Speech Understanding
Extract maximum value from voice data with Audio Intelligence, and leverage Large Language Models with LeMUR.
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import assemblyai as aai
transcriber = aai.Transcriber()
transcript = transcriber.transcribe(URL, config)
print(transcript)
{
"id": "6rlr37h8f4-e310-4e23-bbf3-ea5f347dc684",
"language_code": "en_us",
"status": "completed",
"text": "Runner's knee is a condition characterized by pain behind or around the kneecap...",
"confidence": 0.98122,
"audio_duration": 3200,
"words": [
{ "text": "Runner's", "start": 0, "end": 550, "speaker": "A", "confidence": 0.98113 },
{ "text": "knee", "start": 580, "end": 1130, "speaker": "A", "confidence": 0.95417 }
]
}