AssemblyAI Universal 3.6 Pro tops clean-audio STT benchmark with 1.77% WER

AssemblyAI · x · 2026-11-06

Per the Cekura Bench STT leaderboard, AssemblyAI Universal 3.6 Pro achieves the lowest word error rate on clean audio at 1.77%, beating NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (1.89%), Fish Audio Transcribe Stream 1 (1.90%), its predecessor Universal 3.5 Pro (1.93%), and Google Chirp 3 (2.00%) among 19 models. Final transcripts land 91ms after the caller stops speaking, highlighting strong real-time latency.

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