One API, 55+ languages, covering over half the world's population

Expand your horizons and reach billions with our fast, accurate transcription API in 55+ languages.

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Going global has never been easier

Reach the largest audience possible - in real-time - without the hassle of multiple different language APIs and lengthy setup times.

A new world of opportunity

Wide language coverage and market-leading accuracy

Broaden your horizons—support 55+ languages and dialects with ease.

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Built on solid foundations

Shaky transcription makes every downstream task harder

With Speechmatics, get accurate transcripts and more in the languages you need.

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Speed up processes

Automatic speech recognition powered by AI

A single, and powerful, API enables higher capacity, allowing you to display captions faster and focus on revisions.

We speak your language

Speechmatics' AI-driven speech technology powers transcription, translation and understanding in 55+ languages.

Language

Transcription

Translation

Arabic

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bulgarian

Cantonese

Catalan

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Esperanto

Estonian

Finnish

French

Galician

Language

Transcription

Translation

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Interlingua

Irish

Italian

Indonesian

Japanese

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Malay

Maltese

Mandarin

Marathi

Mongolian

Language

Transcription

Translation

Norwegian

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Slovakian

Slovenian

Spanish

Swahili

Swedish

Tamil

Thai

Turkish

Urdu

Uyghur

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Built for a multilingual world

Speech doesn’t follow boundaries — neither do we

Trained to understand diverse accents, dialects, and code-switching - ideal for global enterprises and multilingual conversations.

  • Multilingual support for Spanish, Mandarin, Tamil and more.

  • Customizable for local vocab & terminology.

Comprehensive features, simple set up.

We've done the heavy lifting, so you don’t have to. Packed with features to give you access to global customer bases and audiences, without the headaches of lengthy setup and configuration.

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HUGE language coverage

We understand almost 4 billion people with our language coverage. With Speechmatics you can enable your customer’s media to reach as wide an audience as possible.

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A single, unified API

Reduce technical overhead and bypass the requirement to have multiple API calls; with Speechmatics you can send audio once and get both transcription and translation back.

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Auto language ID

No need to set the expected language (though you can if you want to) - Speechmatics will automatically recognize the input language to ensure the highest possible accuracy.

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Custom Dictionary

Accurately capture even the most technical of words - company names, industry jargon, slang and more. With Custom dictionary, you really will never miss a word.

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Consistent. Reliable. Unmatched.

Speechmatics delivers high accuracy transcription even on languages that other vendors like Google struggle with.

Our stats stack up.

Stat card reading "52.9%" for lower word error rate than Google.

Lower word error rate compared to Google (on German to English).

Stat card reading "1.8x" for better quality French and English transcription than Google.

Better quality French to English than Google (as measured by COMET score).

Stat card reading "93.9%" for better quality ASR and translation for German, Swedish, and Japanese.

Better quality for ASR + Translation for German, Swedish, and Japanese (as measured by COMET score).

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Supporting transcription across 50+ languages, opening up a world of new opportunities.

Inclusivity – good for everyone, no matter the use case.

Make your content work harder to a larger audience & increase customer satisfaction. Whatever your industry, it's win after win after win after...

Media

Localize Media Content With Speechmatics

Our ASR supports over half the world’s population with its language coverage. Let your customer’s media reach as wide an audience as possible, regardless of the spoken language.

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EdTech

Build Inclusive Classrooms For Everyone

Speech translation encourages diversity and inclusion in education, as well as ensuring your services remain compliant with international laws and standards.

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Contact Centers

Revolutionize Contact Centers with Speech

Don’t let language and dialect barriers hold you back. Extend your offering with contact center solutions to cover diverse customer bases, without compromising quality of service.

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The proof is in the pudding. Or budino. Or मिठाई.

Test results are great, but nothing beats a live demo. Below is a live stream of four international radio broadcasts, with live transcription and translation both shown, in real-time.

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The science behind the magic

At Speechmatics, our technical breakthroughs in Self Supervised Learning (SSL) give you game-changing results. Both today, and in the future.

Language

High accuracy across languages

Our bar is high for quality, and our underlying technology ensures we hit that bar across every supported language.

Dialects

Dialects and accents all included

We ensure that our accuracy remains for dialects, accents, and in different environments. With Speechmatics, inclusivity is built in.

Where next?

New languages added with ease

Our SSL technology means we move can add new languages, fast. We added Persian within 4 weeks. Need a language we don’t current offer? Get in touch.

Machine learning

Constantly improving, always evolving

We accomplished a 40% decrease in transcription error for Norwegian - getting this right takes machine learning excellence, quality data, and language expertise.

Conversational AI, built for enterprise.

Power your products with enterprise-grade AI transcription and Voice AI Agent APIs. We handle the speech, you deliver conversations that matter.

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Transcription coverage for over half the world's population

With Speechmatics, the only real question you need to ask is... where next?