Speech-to-Text · Multilingual

Telugu

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Benchmarks

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200ms400ms600ms800ms8.0%10.0%12.0%Finalize latency lower is betterCER lower is betterOpenAI GPT-4o TranscribeSoniox stt-rt-v5OpenAI GPT-4o-mini TranscribeDeepgram Nova-3speko.ai/benchmarks

CER

lower is better

Character error rate, batch path — word scoring mismeasures this language.

GoogleChirp 33.2%
OpenAIGPT-4o TranscribeTry →7.5%
Smallest AISmallest AIPulse ProTry →8.5%
Sonioxstt-rt-v5Try →9.8%
OpenAIGPT-4o-mini TranscribeTry →10.2%
DeepgramNova-3Try →13.4%
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%20.0%

Finalize latency

lower is better

Time from the caller stopping to the finalized transcript, not the first partial — the agent cannot reply until it lands. Measured on English audio; Telugu has no sweep of its own yet.

DeepgramNova-3Try →189ms · 770ms
Sonioxstt-rt-v5Try →340ms · 1.33s
OpenAIGPT-4o-mini TranscribeTry →822ms · 1.09s
OpenAIGPT-4o TranscribeTry →848ms · 1.18s
0ms300ms600ms900ms1.20s

p50 p90

Time to first token

lower is better

How long before the first word of the transcript arrives. Measured on English audio; Telugu has no sweep of its own yet.

DeepgramNova-3Try →976ms · 1.98s
Sonioxstt-rt-v5Try →1.53s · 2.04s
OpenAIGPT-4o-mini TranscribeTry →6.33s · 10.6s
OpenAIGPT-4o TranscribeTry →6.40s · 10.8s
0ms2.00s4.00s6.00s8.00s

p50 p90

Cost

lower is better

$ per 1,000 minutes of audio · vendor list price, the same in every language