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Speechmatics
Company blog · speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-newsaidata
Speechmatics is the company blog at speechmatics.com, writing about ai and data. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Understanding Persian”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A speech-to-text vendor's product page, linked in HN threads as a transcription option. Comments mention its accuracy, diarisation, on-prem deployment and language coverage; several are from its employees. No writing is discussed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Speechmatics builds speech-to-text APIs for real conversations, not clean demos. Build Voice AI that understands accents, multiple speakers, and multilingual speech.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-10
- Understanding Persian2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-12-22
What Hacker News says?
Speech recognition developer here - I hear many people complaining about the accuracy of speech recognition hindering multiple use-cases. I work for a lesser known speech recognition company Speechmatics [1] and accuracy is our top priority. We do have a real-time speech recognition API available, adding it as an alternative speech recognition provider for some of the tools mentioned here might improve the experienc…
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on “What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?”Submitted Ursa from Speechmatics: 25% more accurate ASR vs Whisper as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSpeechmatics.com in London and Cambridge, UK. We build audio and language models that perform the most accurate speech recognition available. https://www.speechmatics.com/company/careers/roles
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on “Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat”Submitted Accurate real-time speech recognition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you sign up you can scroll down and see the pricing on https://www.speechmatics.com/account/
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on “Google opens access to its speech recognition API”Submitted Understanding Persian as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWill be interesting to compare with http://www.speechmatics.com
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on “Google opens access to its speech recognition API”Submitted Flow: Let your tech do the talking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSpeechmatics ( https://speechmatics.com/careers ) | Cambridge UK, London UK, Chennai India, Salt Lake City USA, Brno Czech Republic (Hybrid - aka 1 day a week at a hub is roughly distance we go for. Have remote for right candidate) Speechmatics have just raised $62M to Understand Every Voice Globally. We are the most accurate speech to text provider in the world want to keep improving the inclusivity and accuracy to…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)”Submitted Understanding Persian as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've had great success doing transcription on-prem with Speechmatics: https://www.speechmatics.com They offer both a VM and a Docker image that you can run behind your firewall, and even license offline if you really need to. I use it for generating closed captions of videos, but you could build a transcription tool out of it as well. Their engine's accuracy is the best I've found out there, too, which is a nice bon…
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on “Otter.ai has saved reporters hours transcribing interviews. Caveat emptor”Submitted Understanding Persian as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSpeechmatics diarisation is pretty good. https://www.speechmatics.com/
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on “Show HN: SpeechBoard – Edit Podcasts from the Transcript”Submitted Understanding Persian as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi, I'm an engineer at Speechmatics. Our speech-to-text software handles speaker diarization very reliably, and we're a go-to choice for non-English languages. https://www.speechmatics.com/ How long is the audio file? If it's under 2 hours, you can upload the file and transcribe it with diarization for free using our web portal: https://portal.speechmatics.com/jobs/create/batch Hope it helps for your use case! If it…
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on “Ask HN: What Speaker Diarization tools should I look into?”Submitted Whisper Deep Dive and Future of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHave you tried https://speechmatics.com/ ? I think they have a specially tuned medical version, and quite a generous free allowance.
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on “Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% client-side (WASM)”Submitted Speechmatics launches 46 new free languages for speech-to-text as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf propeietary/SaaS fits your use case I can reccomend Speechmatics. Has a wider range of languages than a lot of the competition: https://speechmatics.com (Full disclosure I'm an engineer there)
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on “Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?”