Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with 2.6% error rate
Google just launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model hitting a 2.6% word error rate for pre-recorded audio and 4.0% for streaming. It strips filler words, handles real-time self-corrections across 85+ languages, and can trigger background Gemini models via function calling. Developers can already access it via Google AI Studio.