Voice benchmark: near-top quality STT models cost 50-85× less per audio hour
AssemblyAI · x · 2026-10-14
Supplementary finding from AssemblyAI's Voice Standard Bench: for most voice tasks you don't need frontier-model prices. On transcripts up to 15 minutes, a model within two quality points of the top scorer costs 50-85× less per hour of audio; on hour-long transcripts the gap narrows to about 3×.
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