Does it work on phone-recorded home-visit audio?

Yes — Universal-3.5 Pro is built for real-world, far-field audio and has a hallucination rate ~30% lower than Whisper.

Can nurses document offline and upload later?

Yes — async transcription processes uploaded recordings; no live connection required during the visit.

Does it capture medications and vitals accurately?

Yes — Medical Mode improves entity accuracy on drugs, conditions, and clinical terms.

Is PHI protected on mobile recordings?

AssemblyAI is a business associate under HIPAA and signs a standard BAA; PHI redaction; SOC 2 Type 2.

How much does home-health transcription cost?

$0.15/hr Medical Mode add-on on Universal-3.5 Pro.

Home health & nursing

Documentation that works outside the clinic

Home-health visits happen on phones, in living rooms, with distance between speaker and mic. Universal-3.5 Pro is built for real-world audio, and Medical Mode keeps medications and conditions accurate even on far-field, mobile recordings — so nurses document in the field, not after.

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Accuracy that holds up on the messy audio of a home visit

Missed Entity Rate 3.2%

Missed Entity Rate on clinical conversations with Medical Mode.

vs. Universal-3 Pro ~20%

Fewer missed medical entities than Universal-3 Pro alone.

vs. base model 87%

Fewer medical entity errors than the base model.

Benchmarked providers #1

Lowest Missed Entity Rate vs. Deepgram, Speechmatics, AWS, and Google.

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Activation

Field-ready transcription

Upload visit recordings from any device — one parameter adds Medical Mode, no in-clinic infrastructure required.

import assemblyai as aai

aai.settings.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

# Home health: far-field, mobile audio; meds + care plan
config = aai.TranscriptionConfig(
    speech_models=["universal-3-5-pro", "universal-2"],
    domain="medical-v1",
    keyterms_prompt=["wound care", "furosemide", "blood pressure", "care plan"],
)

transcript = aai.Transcriber().transcribe("./home-visit.m4a", config)
print(transcript.text)

Far-field & mobile audio

Holds accuracy on phone-recorded, distance-mic audio.

Universal-3.5 Pro

Care-plan vocabulary

Medications, vitals, and care-plan terms captured for accurate field notes.

Medical Mode

Async-friendly

Upload visit recordings for batch processing; no in-clinic infrastructure required.

Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime

Common questions

: Yes — Universal-3.5 Pro is built for real-world, far-field audio and has a hallucination rate ~30% lower than Whisper.
: Yes — async transcription processes uploaded recordings; no live connection required during the visit.
: Yes — Medical Mode improves entity accuracy on drugs, conditions, and clinical terms.
: AssemblyAI is a business associate under HIPAA and signs a standard BAA; PHI redaction; SOC 2 Type 2.
: $0.15/hr Medical Mode add-on on Universal-3.5 Pro.
: Add domain: "medical-v1".

Try Medical Mode free on your audio

Run your own home-visit recording through Medical Mode in the playground — one parameter, no model swap. Free to start, no credit card required.

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