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November 20, 2025

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5 vs Claude 4.5: Which model wins for audio workflows?

Gemini 3 Pro brings smarter summaries and actionable insights to audio workflows. Compare it to GPT-5, Claude 4.5, and other leading LLMs.

Meredith Rauch
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Google DeepMind's new Gemini 3 Pro is a leap forward in how AI understands, summarizes, and reasons about complex, multimodal data. Building on Gemini 2.5's strengths, Gemini 3 adds interpretive insight, executive-ready summaries, and improved performance across real-world tasks. According to Inc., Gemini 3 outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI on business operations benchmarks, signaling models that don't just respond to prompts but reason, plan, and act across text, audio, images, and video.

Model release timeline (Gemini, GPT-5, Claude 4.5)

AI Model Timeline
Date Milestone
March 2025 Release of gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 (public experimental) via the Gemini API.
May 2025 Google announces major updates: native audio output, "Deep Think" enhanced reasoning mode, multilingual support, and performance leadership.
June 2025 General availability (GA) of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro; introduction of Flash-Lite preview.
August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5
September 2025 Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5
November 2025 Gemini 3 Pro preview is released

What's new in Gemini 3

Gemini 3 Pro introduces several key improvements over 2.5:

1. Smarter, interpretive summaries

  • Highlights active speakers and their contributions
  • Adds explanatory context—why a comment or insight matters
  • Focuses on the most relevant information rather than reporting everything equally

2. Deeper, actionable detail

  • Explains motivations and implications behind decisions
  • Adds narrative commentary for clarity
  • Provides structured insights that teams can act on immediately

3. Better structure & organization

  • Hierarchical, editorial format: participants → key topics → action items
  • Emphasizes roles, responsibilities, and contributions
  • Executive-friendly summaries that read like internal briefings

4. Polished, human tone

  • Reads more like an internal newsletter than a mechanical transcript
  • Turns meetings and calls into cohesive, actionable stories
Real-world meeting audio processed with AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text, then routed through LLM Gateway to generate Gemini’s response to the prompt: “List all meeting participants."
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Comparing Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5, and Claude 4.5 on Audio Data

Different models serve different workflows. Here's how they stack up for meeting summaries and audio-based insights:

AI Meeting Notes Comparison
Model Strengths Quick Takeaway
Anthropic Claude 4.5 Safe, factual, clean meeting notes; ideal for audit/log purposes; low inference Literal & conservative
Google Gemini 2.5 Literal and comprehensive; captures all participants; verbose, less readable Literal & complete
Google Gemini 3 Pro Actionable, context-rich; highlights contributors and key insights; executive-ready Actionable & executive-friendly
OpenAI GPT-5 Deeply contextual, highly actionable; best for follow-ups and strategic insights; may need trimming for quick skimming Context-rich & actionable
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Faster, highly factual, exhaustive participant coverage, structured; great for archival meeting notes Does not highlight action items; less executive-friendly summary
Real meeting transcript processed with AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text and LLM Gateway, comparing Gemini 3 Pro vs. GPT-5 outputs for the prompt: “Extract meeting insights."

The bridge: AssemblyAI's LLM Gateway

Gemini 3 highlights the direction of multimodal AI: reasoning across text, audio, and more. AssemblyAI makes it simple to apply the best LLM to your audio workflows.

Speech → Text → Understanding → LLM Insights

With LLM Gateway, developers can apply any large language model directly to their audio data. Once your audio is transcribed, you can route it through Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5, Claude, or other supported models to summarize, extract, or analyze conversations—all without changing a single line of code.  

Practical use cases

1. AI coach

  • Listens to meetings, calls, or interviews
  • Analyzes tone, pacing, and responses
  • Provides actionable suggestions like "Ask more open-ended questions" or "Pause after each customer comment"

2. Action item generation

  • Automatically extracts next steps from conversations
  • Outputs structured data (like JSON) for CRM or project management tools

3. Multilingual conversation analytics

  • Works seamlessly across languages
  • Handles code-switching naturally
  • Highlights the most relevant insights from multilingual teams

Start building smarter workflows

Want to see how different models perform on your audio data? LLM Gateway lets you:

  • Transcribe meetings, calls, interviews, and more with AssemblyAI's Speech-to-Text
  • Quickly switch between Gemini 3, GPT-5, Claude, and others
  • Compare outputs to find the model that best fits your workflow

Start with accurate speech-to-text, choose the LLM that works for your use case, and turn conversations into actionable insights your team and customers actually value. Grab your free API key if you're ready to start testing.

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