Speechmatics Enhanced
Speechmatics
Speech to textTranscribes a recording into words
- 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, 2026Speechmatics Enhanced is a hosted-only speech-to-text engine that turns audio into written words across 55 languages. It excels on clean, read-aloud English with a very low error rate, but accuracy drops sharply in meetings and on heavily accented speech. No pricing or hosted access is currently available in our data.
Pick this for clean narration or audiobook transcription, or European-accented English where it outperforms its own accented-speech average. Consider it for multilingual deployments needing 55 languages where English accuracy matters most. Skip it if you need meeting transcription, heavily accented speech, or transparent pricing and immediate hosted access.
The case for it
- Excellent on clean read-aloud English: roughly three times better than its own overall average.
- Strong on European-accented English, with a marked gap over accented speech generally.
- 55 languages supported, which few transcription engines match.
The case against it
- Accuracy collapses in recorded meetings and on heavily accented speech, with the latter more than six times worse than its clean-speech performance.
- Large performance gap across conditions makes it inconsistent in practice.
- No pricing or hosted access currently available in our data.
How good is it?
TranscriptionTurning speech into text3 of 5Open ASR WER · 41st of 74
94.1%
Misses roughly one word in 17, averaged over nine English test sets.
55
Stated by the leaderboard; we do not hold the list itself.
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.
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.
Where to get it
We hold no priced listing for Speechmatics Enhanced.
There is no copy to download and no host in our price data, so Speechmatics 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 Speechmatics sells.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
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.
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
- speechmatics-enhanced