Speechmatics · March 2026
4 tracked updates · March 2026
In March 2026, Speechmatics shipped 4 tracked updates. That's up 33% from February 2026. The dominant theme was content pieces (2). The standout: “Speech-to-text in production: what 36 years of hard lessons taught me” (Mar 31, 2026).
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Speechmatics founder Dr. Tony Robinson highlights key challenges in Voice AI production, arguing that LLMs—not ASR—are the primary failure point in real-time pipelines. He emphasizes the need for prov…
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Speechmatics introduced the first Arabic–English bilingual speech-to-text model, achieving 6.3% WER on mixed-speech benchmarks and 35% fewer errors than Google. The model supports real-time and batch …
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