Rev AI Reverb — async speech-to-text built on Rev's Reverb ASR model (trained on 3M+ hours of human-transcribed audio), with speaker diarization for up to 8 speakers and word-level timestamps. English-core with broad language support via the async API.
20 languages · benchmarked
Overall Score
54.9
#25 of 35
Word Error Rate
18.18%
Character Error Rate
13.46%
Match Error Rate
17.46%
Word Info Lost
23.77%
Avg Latency
13.7s
Benchmarks Run
35
last 30 runs
Word error rate
18.18%
↓ 20.0% · 30d
3 runs ago
latest
Avg latency
13.7s
↓ 1.0% · 30d
3 runs ago
latest
overall WER · 35 models
Rev AI Reverb
field · 34 models
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8 categories
WER
lower is better
Technical
4.5%
Legal
4.6%
Conversational
4.9%
Finance
6.3%
Medical
11.3%
General
15.0%
Noisy Environment
41.5%
Code-Switching
61.0%
5 accents
Rate
$0.003
/min
Per-second billing. Bring your own provider key and pay your provider directly — a 5% routing fee applies (first 100 min/mo free).
Set up BYOKCost estimator
1 hour
$0.18
10 hours
$1.80
100 hours
$18
1,000 hours
$180
Billed per second of audio processed.
Model ID
rev/reverb
Authenticate every request with your secret API key as a Bearer token. Issue a key from your dashboard.
Use it with your agent
Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any agent with a shell. It installs the CLI and the OpenTranscription skill, then transcribes with this model.
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.
models
string[]
Ordered fallback chain: primary first, then backups tried in order if a provider fails.
language
string
ISO 639-1 language code. Omit to auto-detect.
diarization
boolean
Label speakers (A, B, …) in the output.
webhook_url
string
HTTPS URL notified with the result when the job completes. Delivered events are signed (X-OT-Signature).
title
string
Display name for this job in the dashboard. Falls back to the file name.
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
Limits
Max file size
No documented limit
Max duration
17 h
Rev AI Reverb is a speech-to-text model from Rev AI. In our standardized benchmarks it reaches 18.18% word error rate, ranking #25 of 35 models tested. It supports 20 languages and runs at $0.003/min — cheaper than most alternatives.
Its nearest benchmarked alternative is Soniox STT (Async). Best suited for multi-speaker conversations and high-volume, cost-sensitive pipelines.