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On Arabic and English, Melia 1 runs at less than half the mixed error rate of the next best model. On Mandarin and Tamil it switches more accurately than anything else we tested.

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An hour of audio in, a transcript back in under 20 seconds. 30 minutes in under 10 seconds. 10 minutes in under 5 seconds.

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End customers will only ever see their own provider's brand, which means the layer underneath has to be good enough to go unnoticed.

Tresic selects Speechmatics to power the speech layer of its conversation intelligence platform

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Speech-to-text has moved from novelty to enterprise infrastructure. Here's how the leading platforms stack up in 2026 — and how to pick the right one.

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Word error rate for legal transcription has no single acceptable threshold. But knowing how accuracy, audio quality, and review obligations connect to real legal risk is what separates a reliable transcript from a costly one.

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As clinical workflows become automated and AI-driven, real-time speech is shifting from a transcription feature to the foundational intelligence layer inside modern EHR systems.

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