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LIVE BENCHMARK— updated 2026-02-25 21:23

SOUNDBECOMESMEANING.

94.0%ACCURACY

WORD RECOGNITION RATE

180msLATENCY

END-TO-END PROCESSING

97LANGUAGES

SUPPORTED DIALECTS

12.4MHRS PROCESSED

AND COUNTING

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AUDIO INPUT
PROCESSING
0:000s1:00
transcribe.sh — live output
> PROCESSING AUDIO STREAM...
channel: stereo | 44.1kHz | 16-bit
 
> TRANSCRIPT OUTPUT:
"The deposition will reflect that on
March fourteenth the defendant was
present at the Meridian facility —"
 
> CONFIDENCE: 99.1%
WER: 0.9% | LATENCY: 178ms
SPEAKERS DETECTED: 2
 
> BENCHMARK VERDICT: ████████████ 98.7%
SECTION 01 — ACCURACY

WORD ERROR RATE
COMPARISON

Word Error Rate (WER) is the standard metric in speech recognition. Lower is better. Industry average degrades 2.8–5.7× from benchmark to production. Transcribe does not.

RECOGNITION ACCURACY BY CONDITION

CLEAN STUDIO AUDIO
TRANSCRIBE
98.7%
INDUSTRY AVG
94.2%
NOISY ENVIRONMENT
TRANSCRIBE
96.1%
INDUSTRY AVG
82.4%
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
TRANSCRIBE
97.3%
INDUSTRY AVG
79.8%
LEGAL DEPOSITIONS
TRANSCRIBE
98.1%
INDUSTRY AVG
85.3%
NON-NATIVE ACCENTS
TRANSCRIBE
95.4%
INDUSTRY AVG
76.2%
MULTI-SPEAKER DIARIZATION
TRANSCRIBE
94.8%
INDUSTRY AVG
71.5%

WORD ERROR RATE — LOWER IS BETTER

BENCHMARK CONDITIONS
TRANSCRIBE
1.3%
INDUSTRY AVG
5.8%
PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
TRANSCRIBE
2.1%
INDUSTRY AVG
8.7%
SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY
TRANSCRIBE
2.7%
INDUSTRY AVG
20.2%
CONFERENCE ROOM AUDIO
TRANSCRIBE
4.1%
INDUSTRY AVG
22.0%

VERDICT

Transcribe delivers 54% lower WER than the industry average in production environments. For every 1,000 words your team reviews, that's 67 fewer corrections.

57%
WER REDUCTION VS DEEPGRAM NOVA-2
73%
WER REDUCTION IN NOISY CONDITIONS
<3%
WER FOR MEDICAL & LEGAL DOMAINS
SECTION 02 — LATENCY

SPEED IS NOT
OPTIONAL

Conversational AI requires sub-300ms. Legal review requires same-day turnaround. Medical dictation requires immediate note capture. Every millisecond is a liability.

END-TO-END LATENCY

0ms

AUDIO INPUT → STRUCTURED TEXT OUTPUT

↓ 180ms ↓TRANSCRIPT...

Speed vs. Human Transcription

AI TRANSCRIPTION (TRANSCRIBE)1 HR AUDIO → 3 MIN
HYBRID AI + HUMAN REVIEW1 HR AUDIO → 2–3 HRS
PROFESSIONAL HUMAN TRANSCRIBER1 HR AUDIO → 4–6 HRS
COURT REPORTER (MANUAL)1 HR AUDIO → DAYS
80–360× FASTER THAN MANUAL TRANSCRIPTION

END-TO-END LATENCY COMPARISON (MS)

TRANSCRIBE180ms
DEEPGRAM NOVA-2290ms
ASSEMBLYAI UNIVERSAL420ms
GOOGLE CLOUD STT680ms
AZURE COGNITIVE750ms

← 300ms THRESHOLD

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SECTION 03 — VERTICALS

BUILT FOR THE
STAKES YOU FACE

WORD ERROR RATE

1.8%

production environment

AVG LATENCY

195ms

audio → structured text

Deposition-grade accuracy. Deadline-proof speed.

  • 98.2% accuracy on legal terminology (voir dire, habeas corpus, res judicata)
  • Speaker diarization identifies counsel, witness, and judge automatically
  • Timestamps accurate to ±40ms for court-admissible records
  • Redaction-ready output with PII flagging built in
“
We cut post-deposition review from 6 hours to 40 minutes. The accuracy on medical-legal terminology is the only reason we moved from human transcription.

Marcus Ellison

Ellison & Pratt LLP, Chicago

STRUCTURED OUTPUT — LEGAL MODE

SPEAKER_1 [00:02:14]: The deposition will reflect

that on March fourteenth the defendant

was present at the Meridian facility.

SPEAKER_2 [00:02:31]: Objection. Counsel

is leading the witness.

// WER: 1.8% | CONF: 98.2% | SPEAKERS: 2

SECTION 04 — PRICING

THE COST OF
BEING WRONG

Sticker price doesn't tell the full story. Factor in correction time, add-on fees, and error-driven rework. The cheapest transcript is the one that's right the first time.

PROVIDER$/HR AUDIOACCURACYLATENCYLANGUAGESDIARIZATIONHIPAAREALTIME
TRANSCRIBEOUR PICK
$0.4698.7%180ms97✓✓✓
DEEPGRAM NOVA-3
$0.4694.1%290ms36✓✓✓
ASSEMBLYAI UNIVERSAL
$0.1592.3%420ms17××✓
GOOGLE CLOUD STT
$0.9691.8%680ms125✓✓×
REV HUMAN TRANSCRIPTION
$119.4099.0%4–6 hrs12✓✓×

* Prices as of 2026-02-25. AssemblyAI add-ons (diarization +$0.02/hr, entity detection +$0.08/hr) not included in base rate. Human transcription rate based on Rev.com standard tier ($1.99/min).

98.7% accuracy

AT COMPETITIVE AI PRICING

$0.46/hr

ALL FEATURES INCLUDED — NO ADD-ON FEES

259× cheaper

THAN PROFESSIONAL HUMAN TRANSCRIPTION

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AUDIO PROCESSED AND DISCARDED IMMEDIATELY · HIPAA-SAFE

BENCHMARK REPORT

THE 2026 SPEECH RECOGNITION
INDUSTRY BENCHMARK REPORT

64 pages. 12 providers tested. 1.4 million audio samples across legal, medical, and media domains. The most rigorous independent evaluation of ASR accuracy in production conditions.

→WER across 97 languages and 14 accent groups
→Latency benchmarks under 6 real-world load conditions
→Pricing analysis including hidden add-on costs
→Domain adaptation lift by vertical (legal, medical, media)
→Security & compliance matrix (HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR)

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12.4M

HOURS PROCESSED

97

LANGUAGES

4.9/5

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