Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Shares rank 13 of 25 speech recognition models by recommenders
People recommend it for high transcription accuracy and good formatting, with latency that is still a bit slow. Critics note it can simplify precise wording and cut off the start of audio.
People recommend it for high transcription accuracy and good formatting, with latency that is still a bit slow. Critics note it can simplify precise wording and cut off the start of audio.
18 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 8
- approval share
- 56%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Top accuracy among models
“it beats every other model on accuracy, but it definitely needs a bit more work on latency”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” “it's the best model in terms of accuracy, latency, and formatting I have ever used”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” Low latency
“it's the best model in terms of accuracy, latency, and formatting I have ever used”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” “For me, Gemini-3.5-Transcribe actually has slightly lower latency.”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” Impressive in everyday use
“Very impressive, including the ability to hit fn in any text field and say "generate an image ...".”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” “It works great in this scenario.”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Latency needs more work
“it beats every other model on accuracy, but it definitely needs a bit more work on latency”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” “It doesn't reach the frontier in either latency or accuracy for ai multilingual conversations.”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” Weak multilingual output
“It doesn't reach the frontier in either latency or accuracy for ai multilingual conversations.”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” “It produced Russian or Ukrainian as output.”
Comment from 29 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe”
Other speech recognition models people recommend
The four most recommended other speech recognition models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Whisper | 164 | 53 | 76% | 12 | — | Approved |
| NVIDIA Parakeet | 144 | 27 | 84% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Mistral Voxtral | 69 | 27 | 72% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Moonshine open-weights STT models | 37 | 13 | 74% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Gemini-3.5-TranscribeThis page | 10 | 8 | 56% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
17 of the 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Processing time varies from a few moments to a few weeks.”
“Gemini team just released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe that's supposed to be good at this”
“It produced Russian or Ukrainian as output.”
“If the accuracy is close to Scribe, I think it's a good deal.”
“not a single mention of privacy/confidentiality”
“Google is crushing it! They're going toe to toe against the European giant Mistral with all these small useful models”
“Google did okay but cut off the start by several seconds.”
“For me, Gemini-3.5-Transcribe actually has slightly lower latency.”
“it beats every other model on accuracy, but it definitely needs a bit more work on latency”
“The developer docs confirm that the Gemini 3.5 Transcribe model cannot in fact make function calls.”
“Still no real time diarization beyond 3 people (and even then experimental)”
“It doesn't reach the frontier in either latency or accuracy for ai multilingual conversations.”
“Still more expensive and worse performing than ElevenLabs Scribe”
“It works great in this scenario.”
“Very impressive, including the ability to hit fn in any text field and say "generate an image ...".”
“the main issue is when you want to say something precise with specific wording it might "simplify" it and break the meaning.”
“it's the best model in terms of accuracy, latency, and formatting I have ever used”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.