Avalon v1 en
Aqua Voice
Speech to textTranscribes a recording into words
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — no weights published
Our take
Written Sep 5, 2026Avalon v1 en is Aqua Voice's proprietary speech-to-text model for English audio. It sits above the median on most test types, with a particular strength on recorded meetings and a clear weakness on heavily accented speech.
Pick this for general-purpose English transcription where meeting audio dominates — it handles the hardest real-world type better than most rivals. Use it for podcasts, video and clean professional speech too. Skip it if you need heavily accented speech recognition, an open-weights licence, or any language other than English.
The case for it
- Recorded meetings are its standout: better than most of 74 models on the hardest real-world audio type.
- Reliable on podcasts and internet video, beating the field median.
- Excellent on clean professional speech, with error rates well under the median.
- Overall accuracy above the median across nine English test sets.
The case against it
- Heavily accented speech is a clear weak spot, worse than most peers on that test.
- Proprietary weights with no licence disclosed — no self-hosting path.
- No live API access currently available.
How good is it?
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Not yet scored on Arena Text (overall).
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Not yet scored on Arena Coding.
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Not yet scored on Arena Creative Writing.
Each of these is the same transcription job on a different kind of recording, so together they say where it holds up and where it slips — not how closely it follows an instruction.
Every published score for this model6 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 6 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to get it
We hold no priced listing for Avalon v1 en.
There is no copy to download and no host in our price data, so Aqua Voice is where to look. We watch OpenRouter, the provider APIs we track and the LiteLLM price set; this version appears in none of them, which is a gap in what we collect rather than a statement about what Aqua Voice sells.
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence row of this model's own. A source states its weights are not published, so the determination that governs it is the one for closed weights, API access only.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Audio in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- aquavoice-avalon-v1-en