Speechmatics
Shares rank 23 of 25 speech recognition models by recommenders
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.
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.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, 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
Best in class accuracy
“Speechmatics has best in class accuracy but is a bit more expensive ($0.004/min)”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI” “the accuracy is phenomenal on all of them - even with multi-speakers”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “You should write an agent” Wide language coverage, including bilingual models
“Has a wider range of languages than a lot of the competition”
Comment from 24 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?” “we have several bilingual models already with more to come”
Comment from 24 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?”
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 |
| SpeechmaticsThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Speechmatics has best in class accuracy but is a bit more expensive ($0.004/min)”
“we have several bilingual models already with more to come”
“I tried the English version and it's impressive.”
“Has a wider range of languages than a lot of the competition”
“the accuracy is phenomenal on all of them - even with multi-speakers”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.