OpenAI releases GPT Transcribe, cutting speech-to-text price 25% to $4.50 per 1,000 minutes
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-07-29
OpenAI released GPT Transcribe, a new batch speech-to-text model that scores 3.31% AA-WER on Artificial Analysis’ leaderboard, improving 0.7 percentage points over GPT-4o Transcribe while cutting price 25% to $4.50 per 1,000 minutes.
What’s new
- Accepts three kinds of context to improve transcription: a topic/setting prompt, literal keywords, and multiple language hints for multilingual or code-switching audio.
- Runs at about 34× real time.
- OpenAI also launched GPT-Live-Transcribe, a streaming speech-to-text model, which Artificial Analysis says it is benchmarking next.
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