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Google's speech-to-text model, available as a streaming live endpoint and a pre-recorded endpoint, with filler removal, formatting, and speaker attribution.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe ships as a sub-second streaming endpoint and a batch one, with filler-word removal and formatting inside the model. The catalog and the pricing page have not caught up.
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Google's September 15 release pairs a fast speech-to-speech model with one that narrates its own reasoning aloud while tools run. Clients now have to read interactionStatus to know when a turn is actually over.
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Google positions one live model for high-volume conversation and the other for reasoning that continues while the user is still talking. The product page describes both without performance measurements, token costs or latency figures.
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The early-bird rate on MAI-Transcribe-2 sits 72% below the line's April price, which saves a 100,000-hour buyer $26,000 a year and takes 26 cents out of every 36 a standalone vendor charged for the same hour.
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Muse Voice Transcribe claims diarization, endpointing and mid-sentence language switching in a single pass at $3 per 1,000 audio minutes, which makes the buying question less about accuracy scores than about which 25 languages Meta validated.
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Muse Voice Transcribe's benchmark lead rests on three-tenths of a point across about eight hours of English audio, which is thinner evidence than the $0.18 hourly rate sitting underneath it.
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