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Veterinary

A medical scribe that knows species, breeds, and vet drug names

Veterinary transcription converts exam-room and surgical dictation into an accurate patient record. AssemblyAI's Medical Mode, a one-parameter add-on to Universal-3.5 Pro, holds a 3.2% Missed Entity Rate on clinical conversations, capturing the drug names, dosages, and anatomical terms that general transcription drops — across handheld recorders and noisy exam rooms.

Veterinary medicine has its own vocabulary — meloxicam dosed by weight, brachycephalic, FeLV, equine vs. feline. The same Medical Mode that captures human clinical terms handles veterinary terminology, so your scribe drafts an accurate record whether the patient walks in on two legs or four. Works for doctors, works for you.

The lowest Missed Entity Rate across benchmarked providers — applied to veterinary vocabulary

Missed Entity Rate 3.2%

Missed Entity Rate on clinical conversations with Medical Mode.

Fewer missed entities ~20%

Fewer missed medical entities than the base model without Medical Mode.

Fewer entity errors 87%

Fewer medical entity errors than the base model.

Benchmarked providers #1

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

Benchmarks

Veterinary transcription accuracy vs. other providers

Missed Entity Rate is the share of clinical entities — medication names, dosages, diagnoses — that a model fails to transcribe correctly. Lower is better.

Missed Entity Rate and Word Error Rate on clinical conversation audio Lower is better. Medical Mode enabled via domain: "medical-v1".
Provider Missed Entity Rate Word Error Rate
AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro w/ Medical Mode 3.2% 5.3%
Speechmatics Enhanced Medical 3.6% 5.5%
Deepgram Nova-3 Medical 4.7% 6.1%
AWS Transcribe Medical 8.7% 5.9%
Google Medical Conversation 24.4% 12.9%
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Activation

One parameter — built on the same medical model

No model swap, no re-integration — the same one-line Medical Mode change, tuned to veterinary vocabulary, on async or realtime.

import assemblyai as aai

aai.settings.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

# Veterinary: species, breeds, vet drugs and dosages
config = aai.TranscriptionConfig(
    speech_models=["universal-3-5-pro", "universal-2"],
    domain="medical-v1",
    keyterms_prompt=["meloxicam", "brachycephalic", "FeLV", "feline", "0.1 mg/kg"],
)

transcript = aai.Transcriber().transcribe("./vet-consult.wav", config)
print(transcript.text)

Vet drug names and dosages

Weight-based dosing and species-specific medications land accurately.

Universal-3.5 Pro

Species & breed terminology

From brachycephalic breeds to equine conditions.

Medical Mode

Exam-room or mobile

Async for recorded consults, realtime for live in-room documentation; robust on far-field and handheld audio.

Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime

Secure by default

SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022, encryption in transit and at rest, with PHI redaction available for practices that also handle human records.

Platform

Healthcare teams building on the same medical model

"We've integrated the newest models from AssemblyAI for pre-recorded audio ASR in our ambient product, and it's been excellent. We're now exploring Universal-3.5 Pro for async and realtime speech-to-text capabilities for new use cases. What's been just as important is the reliability of the platform itself—both technically and in terms of partnership."

Commure

Gautam Pradeep · Tech Lead, Commure

Common questions