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The speech-to-text

backbone for

voice agents

customer support

meeting assistance

note taking

voice agents

voice agents

customer support

meeting assistance

note taking

voice agents

From async to live streaming, our API empowers your platform with accurate, fully multilingual speech-to-text and actionable speaker insights.

Trusted by 300,000+ developers worldwide

Most voice platform failures
start with faulty STT

From missed key information to misattributed speakers, bad transcripts break trust in your product. Gladia captures critical insights across accents, jargon, and industries to deliver reliable voice experiences.
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performance

Performance that won’t disappoint

Async and real-time STT models with top precision on key entities.
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Sub-300ms latency
To keep conversations seamless and ensure smooth, uninterrupted dialogue every time.
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Leading STT accuracy
Capturing numerical, jargon, and key entities such as names and emails for downstream agent tasks.
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Predictable, stable performance
Forget variance spikes to deliver a consistent user experience.
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Optimized for SIP
As well as telephony protocols (8 kHz), fitting natively into your existing workflows.
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SCALING

Scale without thinking

Instant scalability.
No limits, no fine print.
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Infinite parallel streams
No need to forecast, give notice, or over-provision in advance.​​
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Zero infra burden
Save at least 20% of DevOps effort without sacrificing latency, with no need to self-host.
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Flexible, usage-based pricing
Start small, test freely, scale-as-you-go with clear pricing tiers.
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INTEGRATION

Developer-first
experience

Plug. Build. Ship.
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Lightweight SDK
Minimal lines of code to make setup fast and painless.
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Fast integration
REST or WebSocket connections are simple to configure in under a day.
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Telephony ready
Designed to integrate seamlessly with top communication platforms.
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Ecosystem native
Works out-of-the-box with WebRTC, Recall, and more.
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Direct support
High-touch Slack access for instant help from engineers building the tech.
Compliance & security
At Gladia, data privacy is non-negotiable. We never use your audio to retrain our models, and we don’t believe in charging extra for peace of mind.
Learn more about our security practices
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GDPR Compliant
HIPAA Compliant
AICPA SOC Type 2
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GDPR Compliant
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HIPAA Compliant
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AICPA SOC Type 2
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LANGUAGe SUPPORT

1 provider
for any language

Expand globally with a single API.
100+ languages included.
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Transcribes in any languages
With leading accuracy in EN, FR, ES, and IT, with exclusive support for rare languages.
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Advanced code-switching
Advanced recognition handles natural multilingual conversations without errors.
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Any-to-any translation
Ensures seamless communication across all supported languages.

BENCHMARKS

How we compare to alternatives

Gladia is up to 39% more accurate than leading competitors in major European languages, including English
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Rated 4.8 on G2

Why customers choose us

Here's what top-tier voice platform builders say about our product
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"There’s a lot more than one can get out of audio than just transcription, and Gladia understood that. Feature rollouts are proactive, and anticipate our needs as a platform. Their API performs very well with noisy telephony and stereo audio and does an excellent job with languages."
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Alexandre Bouju
CTO Deputy Manager
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"Gladia has a clear-cut advantage when it comes to European languages. With their API, we acquired new users in countries like Finland and Sweden, who say it's the best transcription they've ever tried."
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Lazare Rossillon
CEO
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"We are 100% benchmark and evaluation driven. Gladia was one of the best providers selected on merit to transcribe user videos, especially for non-English languages. Their reactive customer support and data compliance make their offer really compelling."
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Kojo Hinson
Group Engineering Manager
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"It's the first time we've been able to transcribe video with such accuracy and speed - including when the conversation is technical. Whatever the language or accent, the quality is always there."
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Robin Bonduelle
CEO
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"Having tried numerous speech-to-text solutions, I can confidently say: Gladia's API outshines the rest. Their balance of accuracy, speed, and precise word timings is unparalleled."
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Jean Patry
Co-founder
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"We initially attempted to host Whisper Al, which required significant effort to scale. Switching to Gladia's transcription service brought a welcome change."
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Robin Lambert
CPO
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"The quality of the output from our platform, everything that we do based on this transcription became better after we switched to Gladia."
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Valentin van Gastel
VP of Product & Engineering
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"There’s a lot more than one can get out of audio than just transcription, and Gladia understood that. Feature rollouts are proactive, and anticipate our needs as a platform. Their API performs very well with noisy telephony and stereo audio and does an excellent job with languages."
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Alexandre Bouju
CTO Deputy Manager
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"It's the first time we've been able to transcribe video with such accuracy and speed - including when the conversation is technical. Whatever the language or accent, the quality is always there."
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Robin Bonduelle
CEO
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"Having tried numerous speech-to-text solutions, I can confidently say: Gladia's API outshines the rest. Their balance of accuracy, speed, and precise word timings is unparalleled."
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Jean Patry
Co-founder
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"The quality of the output from our platform, everything that we do based on this transcription became better after we switched to Gladia."
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Valentin van Gastel
VP of Product & Engineering
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"We are 100% benchmark and evaluation driven. Gladia was one of the best providers selected on merit to transcribe user videos, especially for non-English languages. Their reactive customer support and data compliance make their offer really compelling."
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Kojo Hinson
Group Engineering Manager
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"Gladia has a clear-cut advantage when it comes to European languages. With their API, we acquired new users in countries like Finland and Sweden, who say it's the best transcription they've ever tried."
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Lazare Rossillon
CEO
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"We initially attempted to host Whisper Al, which required significant effort to scale. Switching to Gladia's transcription service brought a welcome change."
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Robin Lambert
CPO
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"Having tried numerous speech-to-text solutions, I can confidently say: Gladia's API outshines the rest. Their balance of accuracy, speed, and precise word timings is unparalleled."
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Jean Patry
Co-founder
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"The quality of the output from our platform, everything that we do based on this transcription became better after we switched to Gladia."
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Valentin van Gastel
VP of Product & Engineering
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"Gladia has a clear-cut advantage when it comes to European languages. With their API, we acquired new users in countries like Finland and Sweden, who say it's the best transcription they've ever tried."
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Lazare Rossillon
CEO
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"We are 100% benchmark and evaluation driven. Gladia was one of the best providers selected on merit to transcribe user videos, especially for non-English languages. Their reactive customer support and data compliance make their offer really compelling."
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Kojo Hinson
Group Engineering Manager
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"We initially attempted to host Whisper Al, which required significant effort to scale. Switching to Gladia's transcription service brought a welcome change."
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Robin Lambert
CPO
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"It's the first time we've been able to transcribe video with such accuracy and speed - including when the conversation is technical. Whatever the language or accent, the quality is always there."
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Robin Bonduelle
CEO
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"There’s a lot more than one can get out of audio than just transcription, and Gladia understood that. Feature rollouts are proactive, and anticipate our needs as a platform. Their API performs very well with noisy telephony and stereo audio and does an excellent job with languages."
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Alexandre Bouju
CTO Deputy Manager

use cases

What you can build with our API

Powering the next generation of AI assistants and voice agents across industries
Customer support
Deliver natural conversations at scale — with agents that answer instantly, never drop a call, and handle thousands of interactions in parallel, inbound and outbound.
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transcribed 95% faster with Gladia
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Sales enablement
Capture names, emails, and company details across accents and languages, then sync seamlessly into CRMs to supercharge sales teams with top-tier AI assistance.
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closed more deals globally. Here's how
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Discover Attention case study
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Note-takers
Capture every detail automatically — with real-time or async transcription that tags speakers, generates summaries, and more across all your tools.
How Gladia supports note-takers?
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Financial services
Run voice agents that can engage customers in sensitive, compliance-heavy contexts, with stable transcription and top numerical accuracy.
How Gladia supports financial services?
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Voice is the ultimate interface.
We’re here to make it real.

At Gladia, we believe that the future of human–machine interaction is voice. Speaking should be the most natural way to access information, build products, and connect with technology.
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All your questions. Answered.

What are the key features of Gladia’s audio transcription API?
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On top of supporting 100+ languages across both highly accurate asynchronous and real-time transcription, at <300 milliseconds latency, Gladia also offers a layer of add-ons. These range from custom vocabulary, diarization and sentiment analysis to named entity recognition, word-level timestamps, summarization and more.
What languages does Gladia’s speech-to-text API support?
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Gladia’s Speech-to-Text API supports 100+ languages and accents: afrikaans, albanian, amharic, arabic, armenian, assamese, azerbaijani, bashkir, basque, belarusian, bengali, bosnian, breton, bulgarian, burmese, castilian, catalan, chinese, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, english, estonian, faroese, finnish, flemish, french, galician, georgian, german, greek, gujarati, haitian, haitian creole, hausa, hawaiian, hebrew, hindi, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, italian, japanese, javanese, kannada, kazakh, khmer, korean, lao, latin, latvian, letzeburgesch, lingala, lithuanian, luxembourgish, macedonian, malagasy, malay, malayalam, maltese, maori, marathi, moldavian, moldovan, mongolian, myanmar, nepali, norwegian, nynorsk, occitan, panjabi, pashto, persian, polish, portuguese, punjabi, pushto, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, shona, sindhi, sinhala, sinhalese, slovak, slovenian, somali, spanish, sundanese, swahili, swedish, tagalog, tajik, tamil, tatar, telugu, thai, tibetan, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, urdu, uzbek, valencian, vietnamese, welsh, yiddish, yoru.
How can I get started with implementing Gladia’s API in my product?
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Gladia’s API is extremely easy to implement. To get started, sign up at app.gladia.io. You can choose between trying our product in the playground environment or click ‘Home’ and ‘Generate new API key’ straight away. You can find all the information you need in our developer’s documentation.
How does Gladia’s Speech-to-Text API work?
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Gladia’s audio transcription API - also called a Speech-to-Text API - allows developers and product owners to add both asynchronous and real-time transcription, as well as a selection of audio intelligence add-ons, to their products by calling on a single API for every audio transcription need. You can find all the information you need in our developer’s documentation. Gladia’s pricing has three tiers: free access, Pay-as-you-Go, and Enterprise. You can find more information on the Pricing page. Gladia’s single API is compatible with all existing tech stacks and telephony protocols, including SIP, VoIP, FreeSwitch and Asterisk.
Do you offer support for multiple programming languages?
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Absolutely! Our API is designed to be language-agnostic, meaning you can use it with any programming language that can make HTTP requests. We provide code examples in multiple languages to assist developers in integrating our speech-to-text API.
What audio formats does Gladia support?
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Gladia’s audio transcription API supports a wide range of audio formats and codecs, from WAV and m4a to flac and aac. The full list is available in our documentation under "Supported files & duration," but make sure to reach out to our team if you encounter any issues with your specific file format.
What type of companies use Gladia’s audio transcription API?
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Any company that manages or produces audio or video data can benefit from Gladia’s Speech-to-Text technology. Among others, we work with: Virtual meeting providers, note-takers and collaboration platforms use audio transcription to help their customers store and exploit vast amounts of meeting data, giving them access to a previously untapped source of internal knowledge. Contact centers, technology providers, sales enablement- and CRM enrichment platforms improve their performance with real-time transcription, detailed analytics and insights, as well as AI voice companies using STT and TTS APIs in their services and selling to businesses that require enhanced communication capabilities. Audio, video, and media production companies like streaming platforms, screencast or podcast production software, media platforms and forums, and audio and video recording or sharing products all use audio and video transcription. Both to make their content exponentially faster to catalog, access and search for, as well as to generate captions and subtitles. Specialized companies in industries such as medicine, law and finance find great value in speech-to-text technology that is fine-tuned to their specific language.
Is Gladia secure?
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At Gladia, we are used to working with organizations with highly sensitive data and extremely tight security requirements. By default, we deliver our audio transcription services in a cloud-hosted environment which can be customized to your geographical footprint. We are able to deliver on-premises hosting, as well as air-gapped hosting, depending on your security requirements. As Gladia already operates in Europe with organizations that require airtight data privacy compliance, Gladia is able to offer GDPR-compliant audio transcription.