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Releases & Updates AI voice agents

Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime: trained on real conversations, built for real voice agentsIlya Sklyar

Insights & Use Cases Word Error Rate (WER)

Why your word error rate (WER) benchmark might be lying to youZackary Klebanoff

Insights & Use Cases Speech-to-Text

AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro vs OpenAI Whisper (2026)Patrick Loeber

Releases & Updates AI voice agents

Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime is liveMadison Bernstein

Releases & Updates Dictation

Introducing our Dictation APIMadison Bernstein

Releases & Updates

Introducing Voice Standard Bench: 50+ models, ranked by performance, speed and cost on real audio

LLM Gateway

Introducing Voice Standard Bench: 50+ models, ranked by performance, speed and cost on real audio AssemblyAI Team

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AI voice agents

Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime: trained on real conversations, built for real voice agents Ilya Sklyar

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AI voice agents

Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime is live Madison Bernstein

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Releases & Updates

Universal-3.5 Pro is now on OpenRouter David Lange

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Dictation

Introducing our Dictation API Madison Bernstein

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LLM Gateway

Introducing Qwen3.5 4B on LLM Gateway—optimized by AssemblyAI for the fast rewrite tasks at the center of voice products

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AI voice agents

Introducing the Sync API: Finished Transcripts in a Single API Call Madison Bernstein

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Code-switching

Universal-3.5 Pro: native code switching, our most accurate speaker diarization yet, and expanded language support Madison Bernstein

Insights & Use Cases

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Text-to-speech What is text to speech? How modern conversational TTS worksKelsey Foster

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LLM Gateway How to cut LLM costs on voice workloads without losing qualityKelsey Foster

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Voice Agent API Which voice agent API has the best developer experience?Kelsey Foster

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Voice Agent API What languages does the Voice Agent API support?Kelsey Foster

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Voice Agent API Build a browser voice assistant in JavaScript with the Voice Agent APIKelsey Foster

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AI voice agents Vapi vs LiveKit vs Retell (and Pipecat): Which voice agent stack for production?Kelsey Foster

News

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Events

Building voice agents for the real world: 7 takeaways from our NYC meetup with LiveKit Kelsey Foster

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News AssemblyAI Named a Leader in G2’s Spring 2026 Voice Recognition ReportDevon Malloy

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Voice AI Voice AI in 2026: Inside the companies and investments shaping the future of speechKelsey Foster

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Voice AI Inside AssemblyAI's NYC voice agents January 2026 meetup: Production insights from the front linesKelsey Foster

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AI voice agents New 2026 insights report: What actually makes a good voice agentKelsey Foster

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Events Nov. Voice AI meetup recap: Real-world challenges of deploying voice AI agentsMaxinne Rillo

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News AssemblyAI Named Leader in G2's Fall 2025 Voice Recognition Grid® ReportDevon Malloy

Video

Assembly Required title card: The shift from post-call analysis to live insights, with Kelsey Foster, Growth at AssemblyAI

Conversation Intelligence

Real-time conversation intelligence: The shift from post-call analysis to live insights Kelsey Foster

Assembly Required title card: The ongoing need for human-in-the-loop in conversation intelligence, with Kelsey Foster, Growth at AssemblyAI

Conversation Intelligence

The ongoing need for human-in-the-loop in conversation intelligence Kelsey Foster

Predicting the future: What top AI founders have to say about innovation in 2025

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Predicting the future: What top AI founders have to say about innovation in 2025 Kelsey Foster

Building with AI in 2025: Top advice from leading founders

Product Management

Building with AI in 2025: Top advice from leading founders Kelsey Foster

AI product strategy in 2025: Top advice from AI-first founders

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AI product strategy in 2025: Top advice from AI-first founders Kelsey Foster

Newsletter

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SF Hackathon + In-App Playground + 99 Language Support | NewsletterDevon Malloy

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Streaming STT Performance Update | NewsletterDevon Malloy

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Enhanced diarization + Dovetail case study + G2 wins | NewsletterDevon Malloy

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Build Powerful Speech AI Apps with AssemblyAI & Speaker Diarization TutorialsSmitha Kolan

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AssemblyAI's C# .NET SDK + Latest TutorialsSmitha Kolan

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