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Modulate Vfast

Modulate

Speech to textTranscribes a recording into words

Input: audio. Output: text.InputOutput
Type
Proprietary
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 Aug 2, 2026

Modulate Vfast is a hosted-only speech-to-text model that turns audio into written words. It achieves very low error on clean read-aloud audio but degrades sharply in meetings, podcasts and accented speech. No hosting offers or pricing are currently listed in our data.

Who should pick it

Pick this when your audio is clean, scripted and read aloud — it gets roughly one word in a hundred wrong under those conditions. It may also suit financial calls or European-accented speech, though error rises several-fold. Skip it if you need transcription for meetings, podcasts, video or heavily accented speech, or if you require confirmed hosting availability and pricing.

The case for it

  • Excellent on clean read-aloud audio at 0.92% word error rate.
  • Below-average error on financial calls and European-accented speech relative to its own headline figure.

The case against it

  • Accuracy collapses in natural, unscripted audio: meeting error is more than seven times worse than clean read speech, and the 7.17 point spread between best and worst conditions makes reliability unpredictable.
  • No commercial access path currently tracked; zero offers in our catalogue.
  • Speed claims are unverified in our data.
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How good is it?

TranscriptionTurning speech into text5 of 5Open ASR WER · 1st of 74

Words it gets right

95.6%

Misses roughly one word in 23, averaged over nine English test sets.

Where it struggles
Read aloudaudiobooks, clean recording0.9%
Podcasts and videoeveryday internet audio7.3%
Accented speechspeakers from many countries8.1%
Meetingsa room, several people, far microphone6.7%

Percentage of words wrong on each set, lower better. Bars are scaled to this model's own worst case, not to the board.

The figures above come from the Open ASR Leaderboard, an independent public test that runs every model on the same recordings. It is the only measurement of transcription quality we know of, so there are no other scores to show.

Also scored, on boards we give no mark for
Recorded meetings 1st of 74Clean read speech 1st of 74Harder read speech 1st of 74Accented speech 4th of 74Podcasts and video 7th of 74Financial calls 28th of 74European-accented speech 37th of 74

These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done, which is why they get no rating.

Every published score for this model8 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 8 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
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0.92independentsource ↗
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Where to get it

We hold no priced listing for Modulate Vfast.

There is no copy to download and no host in our price data, so Modulate 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 Modulate sells.

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When we formed this view

Dates behind this page

Aug 2, 2026BenchmarkScored 8.1 on Accented speechleaderboard
Aug 2, 2026BenchmarkScored 2.4 on Financial callsleaderboard
Aug 2, 2026BenchmarkScored 6.7 on Recorded meetingsleaderboard
Aug 2, 2026BenchmarkScored 3.7 on European-accented speechleaderboard
Aug 2, 2026BenchmarkScored 7.3 on Podcasts and videoleaderboard
Aug 2, 2026BenchmarkScored 0.92 on Clean read speechleaderboard
Aug 2, 2026BenchmarkScored 1.9 on Harder read speechleaderboard
Aug 1, 2026ListedListed on LLMapfirst indexed by our pipeline
Aug 1, 2026BenchmarkScored 4.4 on Open ASR WERleaderboard

Prices last checked 6h ago

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.
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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

Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.

Identifiers

Modality record
audio->text
Catalogue slug
modulate-vfast

Machine-readable model card (omc.json) →

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