Tuesday, 1 September 2026 No. 9 Updated
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Voice AI

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that cleans up disfluencies

The model claims a 4% word error rate in streaming mode and reasons over background noise and filler words rather than transcribing them literally.

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The short version
  • Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on August 26, in streaming and pre-recorded variants, supporting more than 85 languages with automatic detection.
  • The company reports a word error rate of 4.0% in streaming mode and 2.6% non-streaming overall, citing Artificial Analysis's benchmark methodology.

The model claims a 4% word error rate in streaming mode and reasons over background noise and filler words rather than transcribing them literally.