Gladia

Gladia is an AI audio infrastructure tool that transcribes and enriches conversations through a single API. It provides real-time and asynchronous speech-to-text with advanced audio intelligence features.

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Pricing

Freemium · Paid · Usage-based · Enterprise

Free tier

Yes

API

Yes

Skill level

Technical

About

What is Gladia?

Gladia is an AI audio infrastructure tool designed to transcribe and enrich every conversation through a single API, enabling developers to convert audio into structured, actionable data for their products. It offers both real-time transcription with sub-300ms latency and asynchronous transcription, processing an hour of audio in under 60 seconds. The API supports over 100 languages, including many not covered by competitors, and includes features like speaker diarization, translation, summarization, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and custom vocabulary. Gladia is SOC 2 and GDPR compliant, ensuring data privacy by never using customer audio to retrain models. It's trusted by over 300,000 developers for applications in meeting assistants, contact centers, voice agents, and media production.

Best used for

Ideal for developers and businesses who need to integrate high-accuracy speech-to-text into their applications, analyze spoken content for insights, and support multilingual conversations. Especially valuable for building meeting assistants, enhancing customer service in contact centers, and powering voice agents with real-time transcription.

Common actions

transcribe audio

analyze speech

process voice data

integrate speech-to-text

develop voice products

transcribertranslator

Capabilities

Key features

Real-time transcription
Async transcription
Speaker diarization
100+ languages supported
Audio intelligence features
PII redaction
Code-switching detection

Target Audience

developersproduct managersai/ml engineers

Integrations

twiliowebrtcrecalllivekitvapi

Pricing & Plans

Freemium · Paid · Usage-based · Enterprise · Starting at USD 0.61

Real-time from $0.75 Async from $0.61 + 10h/free Get started

FAQs

What are the key features of Gladia's audio transcription API?

Gladia's API offers real-time transcription with under 300ms latency and async transcription, processing an hour of audio in under 60 seconds. It includes speaker diarization, translation, summarization, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, custom vocabulary, code-switching detection, and word-level timestamps across 100+ languages.

What languages does Gladia's speech-to-text API support?

Gladia supports over 100 languages and accents, including 42 languages not supported by other API-level STT competitors, such as Tagalog, Bengali, Punjabi, and Maori. It also features automatic code-switching detection for multilingual conversations.

How can I get started with Gladia's API?

You can sign up at app.gladia.io to get 10 free hours per month. Integration typically takes less than a day, utilizing standard REST and WebSocket protocols. Comprehensive documentation and code examples are available to assist with implementation.

What audio formats does Gladia support for transcription?

Gladia supports WAV, M4A, FLAC, AAC, and audio from URLs for asynchronous transcription, with files up to 135 minutes and 1000MB. For real-time, it natively supports Twilio's 8-bit 8kHz audio and is compatible with all telephony protocols.

Is Gladia compliant with data security and privacy standards?

Yes, Gladia is SOC 2 and GDPR-compliant. Customer audio is never used to retrain models, ensuring data privacy. Deployment options include cloud SaaS with EU-west and US-west regions, plus on-premises and air-gapped hosting for strict data residency requirements.

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