Production TestedSpeech-to-Text

Speechmatics

Ultra-fast Arabic STT with poor transcription quality.

Not Recommended

Amazingly fast but Arabic quality is too poor for production. The speed advantage is meaningless when users have to repeat themselves.

Speechmatics delivers the fastest EOU delays in our testing at around 460ms average, with best cases near 0ms. However, transcription quality for Arabic was unacceptable — users had to repeat themselves frequently during production testing.

Benchmarks

Latency

Avg EOU Delay460ms
Best Case0ms
Worst Case806ms

Quality

RatingPoor
Arabic Dialect Support
MSA

Users had to repeat themselves frequently. Quality unacceptable for production use.

Features

Real-time streaming transcription
Configurable endpointing
Standard and enhanced operating points
Custom dictionary
StreamingSelf-Hostable

PricingFree Tier Available

PlanPriceUnit
Standard$0.0042per minute

Integration

SDKs
PythonNode.js
API Style

WebSocket streaming + REST

Documentation

Verdict

Amazingly fast but Arabic quality is too poor for production. The speed advantage is meaningless when users have to repeat themselves.

Best For
Speed-only use cases where quality doesn't matter

Pros

  • Lightning-fast endpointing (0-460ms)
  • Self-hosting option available
  • Configurable latency/quality tradeoff

Cons

  • Poor Arabic transcription quality
  • Users had to repeat themselves
  • Quality issues negate speed advantage
Visit Speechmatics

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