Top updates from 2026
October 2026
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Best dictation APIs in 2026: 9 options compared for developers
AssemblyAI introduced its Dictation API, designed to return finished text (cleaned of fillers, self-corrections, and punctuated) instead of raw transcripts, addressing a gap in dictation workflows. Th…
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How to choose the best speech-to-text API in 2026
AssemblyAI released a comprehensive guide to selecting the best speech-to-text API in 2026, emphasizing benchmarking on real-world audio rather than just WER. The post highlights AssemblyAI’s Universa…
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Voice AI infrastructure with unmatched price-performance
AssemblyAI unveiled a new cloud-based voice AI infrastructure platform emphasizing unmatched price-performance, predictable usage-based pricing, and zero infrastructure management. The offering includ…
September 2026
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When keyterm prompting backfires
AssemblyAI’s blog details reproducible cases where keyterm prompting worsens transcript accuracy by overriding correct words or over-prompting, particularly with similar-sounding terms. It introduces …
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The voice agent launch runbook: ramp, rollback, and on-call
AssemblyAI published a detailed runbook for operating its Voice Agent API post-launch, covering staged traffic ramps, rollback thresholds, severity definitions, and on-call ownership. The guidance add…
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Ambient scribes beyond healthcare: Building for veterinary and legal
AssemblyAI detailed how its ambient AI scribe technology, originally built for healthcare, adapts to veterinary and legal documentation needs. The post highlights key architectural differences, includ…
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How to evaluate a speech-to-text API for an education platform (2026)
AssemblyAI released a guide on evaluating speech-to-text APIs for education platforms, emphasizing student-speech accuracy, long-form audio economics, FERPA compliance, and accessibility requirements.…
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How to build clinical dictation on AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI published a technical guide distinguishing clinical dictation (short-clip) from ambient scribing, clarifying when to use the Sync API (verbatim transcript) versus the Dictation API (cleaned…
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Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime: trained on real conversations, built for real voice agents
AssemblyAI released Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime, a speech-to-text model trained on tens of thousands of hours of real voice-agent and call-center conversations. It reduces errors on short replies by 45…
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Your agent can take no for an answer
AssemblyAI released Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime, a major update to their streaming speech-to-text model, reducing word error rates by 16-52% across scenarios like noisy environments, background speech,…
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Universal-3.5 Pro is now on OpenRouter
AssemblyAI announced Universal-3.5 Pro, its top-ranked speech-to-text model, is now available on OpenRouter’s transcription endpoint. The integration allows developers to access the model through a si…
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AssemblyAI adds Speaker Diarization for pre-recorded audio
AssemblyAI introduced Speaker Diarization for pre-recorded audio, enabling automatic labeling of individual speakers in transcripts. The feature splits transcripts into utterances per speaker with con…
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AssemblyAI expands LLM Gateway with new models, pricing, and EU server support
AssemblyAI’s LLM Gateway now lists multiple new models—including Qwen3.5 4B Fast, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite—with detailed context lengths, supported parameters, and pricing…
- Launchassemblyai.com
Introducing the Dictation API: the first API built for dictation
AssemblyAI introduced the Dictation API, a new product designed to convert spoken utterances into clean, ready-to-use text by resolving self-corrections, removing filler words, and preserving user-int…
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AssemblyAI launches LLM Gateway with multi-model routing, regional compliance, and post-processing
AssemblyAI introduced LLM Gateway, a unified API for accessing 25+ LLMs across providers like Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Qwen with automatic fallbacks and regional endpoints (US/EU). The service s…
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AssemblyAI expands SDK support for Python and JavaScript
AssemblyAI now offers official, open-source SDKs for Python and JavaScript covering pre-recorded transcription, real-time streaming, and speech understanding. The SDKs handle authentication, polling, …
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AssemblyAI expands language support with Universal-3.5 Pro and detailed dialect coverage
AssemblyAI now supports 18 languages in its Universal-3.5 Pro model, including regional dialects like Quebecois French, Mexican Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese, with automatic dialect recognition. T…
August 2026
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AssemblyAI adds real-time LLM Gateway for streaming audio analysis
AssemblyAI introduced a new feature enabling real-time analysis of streaming audio transcripts via its LLM Gateway API. The update allows developers to integrate 25+ models (Claude, GPT, Gemini) into …
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Introducing Qwen3.5 4B on LLM Gateway—optimized by AssemblyAI for the fast rewrite tasks at the center of voice products
AssemblyAI introduced a hosted Qwen3.5 4B model optimized for voice rewrite tasks in its LLM Gateway, delivering 612ms average response times and 94% lower costs than GPT-4.1. The model is purpose-bui…
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AssemblyAI adds filler word preservation to transcription API
AssemblyAI now allows users to preserve filler words like 'uh' and 'um' in transcripts by setting `disfluencies` to `true` in the transcription config. By default, these are removed. The change is ref…
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