Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live, a new speech-to-speech model.
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Google DeepMind launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for intelligent speech-to-text transcription
“Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.”
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, an LLM-based transcription model with 70+ language support
“This model is an LLM based transcription model. So it can do really, really well in transcribing alphanumerics or email addresses, anything that normal transcription models might struggle with.”
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its first LLM-based transcription model with live streaming support.
“this model is both available for unary on the interactions API but also for life transcription on the life API”
NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe with promptable multilingual transcription via Granary v2
Azure AI Speech LLM 09-2026 adds 25 languages and runs 2x faster than previous release
“LLM Speech 09-2026 delivers up to 2x faster processing than 2607, returning transcripts sooner for high-volume and time-sensitive workloads”
Deepgram's Nova-3 on AWS Trainium2 delivers 11–70% more audio per dollar for batch workloads
“On Deepgram's offline, throughput-oriented batch workloads, that setup processed 11–70 percent more audio per dollar than the compute options Deepgram had been running.”
AWS released a WhisperX Deep Learning Container for deploying speaker-labeled, word-level transcription on SageMaker AI.
“WhisperX closes both gaps. It wraps OpenAI's Whisper with batched inference, adds wav2vec2 forced alignment for precise per-word timestamps, and adds speaker diarization to label who spoke.”
Apple's WWDC26 adds on-device AI-generated subtitles via speech transcription and translation for video playback.
“Apple AI generated subtitles can be created live locally on the device as the media plays.”