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AssemblyAI launches Universal-3.5 Pro for challenging audio transcription

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AssemblyAI has released Universal-3.5 Pro, an advanced speech-to-text model designed to handle challenging audio conditions like noisy call centers and overlapping speakers. Unlike typical demos that use clean audio, Universal-3.5 Pro focuses on the difficult 20% of audio that impacts real-world accuracy. The new model offers improved entity accuracy for critical data like email addresses and phone numbers, and includes features like server-side Voice Focus for noise reduction and multichannel transcription to better manage overlapping speech. AI

IMPACT Enhances accuracy for AI-powered transcription services in noisy and complex audio environments.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new version of an existing speech-to-text model with improved features for specific use cases, rather than a frontier model release.

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AssemblyAI launches Universal-3.5 Pro for challenging audio transcription

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  1. AssemblyAI blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Async transcription accuracy on hard audio: noisy call centers, overlapping speakers, and filler words

    Clean-audio WER won't predict production results. Learn to tune Universal-3.5 Pro for noisy call centers, overlapping speakers, and filler words on your hardest audio.

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