# Speechmatics

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Speechmatics and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for speech recognition accuracy, including multi-speaker audio, and its wide language range. The caveat is that it is a bit more expensive, at $0.004/min.

## Why people recommend it

- Best in class accuracy (2 comments): "Speechmatics has best in class accuracy but is a bit more expensive ($0.004/min)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934744)) "the accuracy is phenomenal on all of them - even with multi-speakers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859092))
- Wide language coverage, including bilingual models (2 comments): "Has a wider range of languages than a lot of the competition" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742244)) "we have several bilingual models already with more to come" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743337))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [OpenAI Whisper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/whisper.md): 164 recommend
- [NVIDIA Parakeet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/parakeet.md): 144 recommend
- [Mistral Voxtral](https://hackerapproved.com/p/voxtral-transcribe-2.md): 69 recommend
- [Moonshine open-weights STT models](https://hackerapproved.com/p/moonshine.md): 37 recommend
- [whisper.cpp](https://hackerapproved.com/p/whisper-cpp.md): 33 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.speechmatics.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Speechmatics", https://hackerapproved.com/p/speechmatics/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).