Pulse: World's Fastest Speech-to-Text API - Smallest.ai

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What is Speech-to-text?

Speech to text converts spoken audio into written words that can be searched, analyzed, displayed as captions or used by an application.

Emotion Recognition

Detects user emotions to make conversations more empathetic

Industry-Leading accuracy and speed

Pulse STT outperforms the competition with the lowest Word Error Rates across 30+ languages and sub-70ms latency for seamless, real-time conversations.

Follow every capability to its source

Review implementation details and evidence for accuracy, intelligence, language handling, speakers, redaction, and model choice.

Accuracy and latency

See the evaluation methodology, latency measurements, and accuracy results.

Emotion detection

Go beyond words by returning emotional context with the transcript.

Language detection

Automatically identify the language in incoming audio before downstream processing.

Speaker diarization

Separate and label speakers in multi-speaker audio.

Sensitive-data redaction

Handle sensitive information in transcripts before it moves into downstream workflows.

Pulse

Review the model card for current real-time use cases, capabilities, and release details.

Pulse Pro

Review the model card for current high-accuracy recorded-audio positioning.

Pulse

Best for live audio, voice agents, and streaming transcription.

Live streaming & recorded

Pulse Pro

Built for the highest transcription accuracy on recorded audio

Max accuracy in transcription

Available only in English

Turn conversations into useful data

Build voice agents, captions, meeting notes, subtitles, call analytics, documentation, search and accessibility tools.

Audio in. Structured text out.

Build real-time pipelines with Node and Python SDKs, without managing speech infrastructure or middleware.

  1. Node SDK

    Real-time pipelines

  2. Python SDK

    Backend workflows

  3. Live streams

    Voice agents and calls

  4. Recorded audio

    Media and archives

Speech intelligence for the next workflow

Follow the product or solution path that matches what you need to put into production.

Voice AI

Stream transcripts into conversational systems that need fast turn-taking.

AI notetakers

Combine transcription, speaker separation, and timestamps for searchable meeting records.

Call centers

Transcribe conversations for QA, analytics, and automation.

Pay for the minutes you use

Choose the right model, scale with usage and estimate costs through the on-page calculator.

Choose a model

Pulse or Pulse Pro

Set your usage

Minutes, not seats

Estimate cost

Before production

Scale as needed

No fixed workflow

Frequently
asked questions

Can I try speech to text online?

Does Pulse work in real time?

Can it identify different speakers?

How many languages are supported?

Can I use Pulse for voice agents?

Explore the Speech-to-Text category

Transcription by use case

Move into the workflow that best matches the audio.

Speech recognition guides

Read the technical and evaluation resources behind production choices.