# Best Speech to Text APIs: 12 Leading Speech to Text APIs Compared

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Podcast: [Tech Stories Tech Brief By HackerNoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-stories-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365648)
Published: 2026-05-14T16:01:26+00:00
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## Resource

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/best-speech-to-text-apis-12-leading-speech-to-text-apis-compared . Speech-to-text APIs now process 500M+ hours of audio a month across enterprise apps, but a transcript alone isn't enough. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories . You can also check exclusive content about #speech-to-text-apis , #artificial-intelligence , #voice-intelligence , #speech-to-text-api-comparison , #modulate , #velma-transcribe , #speech-to-text , #good-company , and more. This story was written by: @modulate . Learn more about this writer by checking @modulate's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Speech-to-text APIs now process 500M+ hours of audio a month across enterprise apps, but a transcript alone isn't enough for fraud detection, healthcare scribing, or call-center QA. Here's how 12 leading APIs compare on real-time speed, diarization, languages, and voice intelligence. There are many speech to text APIs available, and they all have different capabilities for speech to text conversion. Only a few speech to text APIs can perform tone, intent, and behavioral analysis of the speech.

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