Prompt
speech to text api for meetings
Latest observation
Oct 11, 2026
OpenAI APIWeb search: off
If you want a speech-to-text API for meetings, the best choice depends on whether you need:
- live transcription
- speaker diarization (who said what)
- timestamps
- summary / notes
- multi-language support
- easy integration with Zoom/Teams/Meet recordings
Popular API options
1. OpenAI Whisper API
- Good accuracy
- Works well for recorded meetings
- Supports many languages
- Lower setup complexity
- Less ideal for true real-time streaming than dedicated streaming providers
2. Deepgram
- Strong for live meeting transcription
- Speaker diarization
- Punctuation, timestamps
- Easy streaming API
- Good for call/meeting apps
3. AssemblyAI
- Great for meetings
- Speaker labels
- Summaries, chapters, sentiment, action items
- Good developer experience
- Supports both real-time and async transcription
4. Google Speech-to-Text
- Reliable and scalable
- Strong language support
- Can do streaming
- More setup/configuration than some newer options
5. AWS Transcribe
- Solid enterprise option
- Real-time and batch transcription
- Speaker identification
- Good if you already use AWS
If your use case is “meeting assistant”
A common stack is:
- Deepgram / AssemblyAI for transcription
- LLM for meeting summary, action items, follow-ups
- Optional: calendar + Zoom/Teams integration
Quick recommendation
- Best for live meetings: Deepgram
- Best all-around meeting intelligence: AssemblyAI
- Best for recorded audio: Whisper API
- Best enterprise cloud option: AWS / Google
If you want, I can also give you:
- a comparison table,
- pricing estimates, or
- a sample API integration in Python/Node.js.