New Speechmatics breaks down language barriers in real-time with our new speech translation API.

The Most Accurate Speech-To-Text API

Our speech-to-text API is the best there is. It integrates easily into your solution, includes a comprehensive set of features and covers nearly every native language with unmatched accuracy.

Get started in three lines

$ pip3 install speechmatics-python

$ speechmatics config set --auth-token $YOUR_API_KEY

$ speechmatics batch transcribe example.wav

What Makes Us Different?

Unrivalled Accuracy

Our speech models have an average increased accuracy of 20% compared to other vendors and deliver regardless of accent, demographic or background noise.

Comprehensive Features

From streaming support to speaker labels and translation, we have every feature you need to deliver compelling end user experiences that set your product apart.

Wide Language Coverage

Our speech API covers the spoken language of nearly half the world's population, that's 48 languages and counting handled with exceptional accuracy.

Flexible Deployments

Our API can be deployed on Cloud, OnPrem or OnDevice, providing for every security, privacy and data sovereignty requirement you might have.

Pioneering Technology

We’re a leader in Self Supervised learning techniques and were the first to apply it to speech. SSL serves as the foundation of our technical architecture and our features.

"We're delighted to work with Speechmatics to drive our live and batch captioning processes – they continue to be ahead of the pack for all our key quality metrics"

Tom Wootton

Head of Product Area for Broadcast Services, Red Bee Media

Recent Technical Articles

Speechmatics unified speech translation API

Speechmatics breaks down language barriers of spoken communication in real-time with our brand new unified speech translation API for files and live audio.

Stuart Wood

Product Manager

Introducing Ursa from Speechmatics

We are excited to introduce Ursa, the world’s most accurate speech-to-text system. Ursa delivers unprecedented performance across a diverse range of voices.

Speechmatics Team

GPT-4: How Does It Work?

OpenAI has released GPT-4, a multi-modal large language model that can accept both images and text as input. Learn how GPT-4 works and what it means.

John Hughes

Accuracy Team Lead

Using GPT-4 and ChatGPT for Downstream Tasks

What's possible when you combine the output of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system with GPT-4 and ChatGPT?

Ana Olssen

Data Scientist

Real-Time Translation: Breaking Down Language Barriers

Combining our existing best-in-class speech-to-text allows us to offer highly accurate real-time translation, in our single speech API.

Caroline Dockes

Machine Learning Engineer

Achieving Accessibility Through Accuracy

Our latest release, Ursa, breaks the accessibility barriers in speech technologies by offering ground-breaking accuracy for every voice.

Benedetta Cevoli

Senior Data Scientist

Featured Case Studies

Ai-Media

With Speechmatics speech-to-text software, Ai-Media enables its clients to enrich audio video content with transcription and subtitles to make it detectable, searchable and usable.

3Play Media

When video captioning needs to be accurate, rely on Speechmatics. Find out how 3Play Media have benefitted from utilizing our Speech Recognition API tech.

Red Bee Media

How Red Bee Media utilizes Speechmatics' ASR solution to improve accuracy of video content making broadcasting more accessible. Find out more about this now!