{"id":2077,"date":"2026-05-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:09:32","slug":"speech-to-text-apis-in-2026-one-audio-clip-two-modern-transcribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/speech-to-text-apis-in-2026-one-audio-clip-two-modern-transcribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech-to-Text APIs in 2026: One Audio Clip, Two Modern Transcribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Speech-to-Text APIs in 2026: One Audio Clip, Two Modern Transcribers<\/h2>\n<p>This post tests two current speech-to-text APIs on Wiro using the same short MP3. The clip includes numbers and model names to stress common failure points.<\/p>\n<h2>Audio sample<\/h2>\n<p><audio controls preload=\"metadata\" src=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stt-roundup-sample.mp3\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<h2>Expected transcript (what the speaker says)<\/h2>\n<p>Hi. This is a 2026 speech to text benchmark on Wiro. It includes numbers like 3.5, 720p, and 1,024. Proper nouns: Kling, Seedance, PixVerse, Hailuo. End.<\/p>\n<h2>Models tested<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/models\/qwen\/qwen3-asr-1-7b\">qwen\/qwen3-asr-1.7b<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/models\/elevenlabs\/speech-to-text\">elevenlabs\/speech-to-text<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Results<\/h2>\n<h3>qwen\/qwen3-asr-1.7b<\/h3>\n<p>Elapsed processing time: 45s.<\/p>\n<pre>Language: English\nText: Hi, this is a 20th round six-page-to-text benchmark on Weiro. It includes numbers like 3.5, 720p, and 1024, proper nouns, hilling, students, pigs verse, hailuo, and.<\/pre>\n<h3>elevenlabs\/speech-to-text<\/h3>\n<p>Elapsed processing time: 4s.<\/p>\n<pre>Hi, this is a 20th drawn six speech-to-text benchmark on Weiro. It includes numbers like 3.5, 720p, and 1024; proper nouns, hyelin; sedents, pixvers, hyluo; end.<\/pre>\n<h2>Quick comparison table<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Model<\/th>\n<th>Elapsed seconds<\/th>\n<th>What to watch for<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Qwen3 ASR 1.7B<\/td>\n<td>45<\/td>\n<td>Numbers and punctuation vs. proper nouns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ElevenLabs STT<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Speed vs. name accuracy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Try the models<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/models\/qwen\/qwen3-asr-1-7b\">Qwen3 ASR 1.7B<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/models\/elevenlabs\/speech-to-text\">ElevenLabs Speech-to-Text<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speech-to-Text APIs in 2026: One Audio Clip, Two Modern Transcribers This post tests two current speech-to-text APIs on Wiro using the same&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[191,100,63],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-model-roundups","tag-elevenlabs","tag-qwen","tag-speech-to-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}