Overall Score
39.9
#19 of 28
Word Error Rate
20.24%
Character Error Rate
12.59%
Match Error Rate
19.65%
Word Info Lost
26.34%
Avg Latency
21.0s
Benchmarks Run
32
last 30 runs
Word error rate
20.90%
↑ 27.1% · 30d
3 runs ago
latest
Avg latency
21.1s
↓ 5.2% · 30d
3 runs ago
latest
overall WER · 28 models
Google Telephony
field · 27 models
lower-left is better
8 categories
WER
lower is better
Legal
2.9%
Medical
3.1%
Technical
5.2%
Conversational
5.8%
Finance
11.1%
General
14.9%
Noisy Environment
53.8%
Code-Switching
68.9%
5 accents
pay per second
Rate
$0.016
/min
Per-second billing. Bring your own provider key and pay your provider directly — a 5% routing fee applies (first 100 min/mo free).
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1 hour
$0.96
10 hours
$9.61
100 hours
$96.12
1,000 hours
$961.20
Billed per second of audio processed.
POST /api/v1/transcriptions
Model ID
google/telephony
Authenticate every request with your secret API key as a Bearer token. Issue a key from your dashboard.
Quickstart
Upload your audio, create a job with this model, then poll the job or set a webhook_url to be notified when it completes.
Key parameters
file_path
string
required
Storage path returned by the upload step.
model
string
required
The model to run this job on.
language
string
ISO 639-1 language code. Omit to auto-detect.
webhook_url
string
HTTPS URL notified with the result when the job completes. Delivered events are signed (X-OT-Signature).
Response
A completed job returns the transcript in the OpenTranscription Unified Schema (OTUS).
Webhooks — skip polling
We POST a signed event to your webhook_url when a job completes or fails; verify the X-OT-Signature (HMAC-SHA256, reject if older than 300 s) and dedupe on the event id, then fetch the full transcript via GET /api/v1/transcriptions/{id}.
Rate-limited per tier — see the X-RateLimit-* response headers.
Full API referenceSupported Languages
Supported Formats
Features
Google Telephony is a speech-to-text model from Google Cloud. In our standardized benchmarks it reaches 22.85% word error rate, ranking #19 of 28 models tested. It supports 9 languages and runs at $0.016/min — a premium option.
Its nearest benchmarked alternative is Amazon Transcribe.