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GPT-Transcribe

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Summary

GPT-Transcribe is OpenAI’s file-oriented speech-to-text specialist. It handles completed audio files, streamed file transcripts, and committed turns in Realtime sessions. Unstructured context, keyword hints, and multiple language hints help with domain terms, multilingual audio, and code-switching. For completed recordings, the model is separate from GPT-Live-Transcribe, which handles ongoing speech.

GPT-Transcribe returns only text from completed audio. OpenAI lists function calling, structured outputs, and fine-tuning as unsupported. Speaker attribution and post-transcript formatting therefore sit outside the model rather than inside its transcription contract.

GraduallyBench Audio

Speech recognition compared automatically.

The pilot uses the same 32 read-speech recordings in German and English, plus four digital-silence clips. The comparison uses source transcripts without human verification. Each language contains four speakers. Spontaneous speech and background noise are outside this cohort.

Word error rate (WER) counts replaced, omitted and inserted words relative to the reference words. Character error rate (CER) compares characters. Lower values mean fewer differences from the reference. WER can exceed 100 %. Counts below each rate show errors / reference units. Silence is evaluated separately.

Protocol audio-stt-read-speech-automated-v1. Actual provider billing is unknown.

GPT Transcribe

OpenAI · gpt-transcribe · https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions · Tested Nov 5, 2026

Successful requests 36 / 36. The exact backend version is not confirmed by the requested route.

Read-speech transcription
LanguageSuccessful responsesWERCERWER, speaker mean
German16 / 166.73 %37 / 5502.42 %79 / 32626.59 %n = 4 / 4
English16 / 161.63 %8 / 4900.81 %21 / 25801.77 %n = 4 / 4
Digital silence
Language settingClips with invented speechInvented words
DE0 / 20
EN0 / 20

Request duration, median / p95 1,154 / 1,974 ms (n = 36). Includes network time and client processing.

All benchmark results

Every published result with its source, test setup and comparison models.

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Measurements without matching peer values

These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.

Artificial Analysis AA-WER (non-streaming) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
3.3
Score
3.3
Metric
word error rate (WER)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
AA-WER v2.2
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
Artificial Analysis
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-15
Methodology
Independent evaluation. Artificial Analysis directly tested the named API endpoint; audio-duration-weighted WER across AA-AgentTalk (50%), VoxPopuli-Cleaned-AA English (25%), and Earnings22-Cleaned-AA (25%), about eight hours total. Current normalizer AA-WER v2.2.
Source Artificial Analysis
ElevenLabs MedDictate overall WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
5.9
Score
5.9
Metric
overall WER
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Corti MedDictate dataset; evaluator edition not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Sample
40
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
ElevenLabs model evaluation
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-15
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Vendor evaluation on Corti MedDictate: English, French, and German clinical dictation. The public test split has 40 clips (24 EN, 7 FR, 9 DE); overall aggregation details are not stated.
Source ElevenLabs model evaluation
ElevenLabs MedTerm medical-term recall (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
74
Score
74
Metric
recall of annotated medical terms
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Corti MedTerm (600 samples)
Category
audio
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
600
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
ElevenLabs model evaluation
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-15
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Vendor evaluation on Corti MedTerm, a public 600-sample clinical-terminology benchmark; recall measures correctly transcribed annotated terms.
Source ElevenLabs model evaluation
ElevenLabs MedTerm medical-term WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
12.3
Score
12.3
Metric
term-WER
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Corti MedTerm (600 samples)
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Sample
600
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
ElevenLabs model evaluation
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-15
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Vendor evaluation on Corti MedTerm, a public 600-sample clinical-terminology benchmark; term-WER scores annotated medical terms only.
Source ElevenLabs model evaluation
ElevenLabs Eka Medical ASR semantic WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
13.9
Score
13.9
Metric
semantic WER
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Eka Medical ASR dataset; evaluator edition not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Sample
3619
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
ElevenLabs model evaluation
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-15
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Vendor evaluation on public Eka Medical ASR, 3,619 English clinical-audio samples; semantic WER counts meaning-equivalent formatting as equivalent.
Source ElevenLabs model evaluation
ElevenLabs Eka Medical ASR keyword WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
13.2
Score
13.2
Metric
keyword WER
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Eka Medical ASR dataset; evaluator edition not stated
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Sample
3619
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
ElevenLabs model evaluation
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-15
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Vendor evaluation on public Eka Medical ASR, 3,619 English clinical-audio samples; keyword-WER scores annotated medical keywords only.
Source ElevenLabs model evaluation
Appen MedTerm-90 overall clinical entity recall (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
81.79
Score
81.79
Metric
Recall of clinician-validated medical entities
Unit
%
Benchmark version
MedTerm-90, September 2026 model versions
Category
audio
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
30017
Lower confidence bound
80.69
Upper confidence bound
82.77
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
Appen MedTerm-90
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Independent evaluation. Appen reports the September 2026 OpenAI gpt-transcribe result on 1413 real physician dictations spanning 90.5 hours and 14 specialties. The reported recall is over 30017 clinician-validated entities; this entity total is the reported count, not the number of recordings. Identical files, entities, thresholds, and judges were used for all models, without vocabulary hints. Appen reports a bootstrap 95% interval.
Context
This is clinical-entity recall, not WER or a general transcription score. Results represent September 2026 model versions under close-microphone single-speaker dictation conditions; Appen notes these conditions favor the models and may not generalize to other audio. The report page gives only an overall score, not the advertised per-specialty breakdown.
Source Appen MedTerm-90
Omi Medical STT September 2026 batch WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
7.2334
Score
7.2334
Metric
word error rate (WER)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Omi Medical STT Benchmark 2026-09-26.1, page modified 2026-09-29
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Sample
1513
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
Omi Health Medical STT Benchmark
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Independent evaluation. Omi batch row OpenAI GPT Transcribe, mapped to the exact official API model id gpt-transcribe. Same scorer and 1,513 English recordings, 7.2096 hours, public API accessed from Frankfurt. The serving revision and request-level parameters are not published.
Context
This is an Omi Health evaluation, not an OpenAI-run test or a clinical-safety assessment. The API alias is exact, but its serving snapshot and full request configuration are not disclosed.
Source Omi Health Medical STT Benchmark
Omi Medical STT September 2026 batch medical WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1.3231197771587744
Score
1.3231197771587744
Metric
word error rate on medical reference tokens (M-WER)
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Omi Medical STT Benchmark 2026-09-26.1, page modified 2026-09-29
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Sample
2872
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
Omi Health Medical STT Benchmark
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Independent evaluation. Omi batch row OpenAI GPT Transcribe, exact official API model id gpt-transcribe. The pooled medical WER uses 2,872 medical reference words drawn from the same 1,513 English recordings. Public API accessed from Frankfurt; the serving revision is not pinned.
Context
Omi Health evaluated a moving public API alias. The source publishes no confidence interval or immutable serving revision and makes no clinical-safety claim.
Source Omi Health Medical STT Benchmark
Omi Medical STT September 2026 batch drug-term error rate (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
0.6787330316742082
Score
0.6787330316742082
Metric
drug-term error rate
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Omi Medical STT Benchmark 2026-09-26.1, page modified 2026-09-29
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Sample
442
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
Omi Health Medical STT Benchmark
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Independent evaluation. Omi batch row OpenAI GPT Transcribe, exact official API model id gpt-transcribe. Three drug-term errors among 442 drug references in the 1,513-recording benchmark. Public API accessed from Frankfurt; serving revision is not pinned.
Context
This is a narrow drug-term error rate, not full-corpus WER. Omi Health publishes no confidence interval or immutable serving revision.
Source Omi Health Medical STT Benchmark
Omi Medical STT September 2026 batch dose and unit match rate (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
79.7872340425532
Score
79.7872340425532
Metric
exact numeric dosage and unit match rate
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Omi Medical STT Benchmark 2026-09-26.1, dosage panel v1.1, page modified 2026-09-29
Category
audio
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
94
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
Omi Health Medical STT Benchmark
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Independent evaluation. Omi batch row OpenAI GPT Transcribe, exact official API model id gpt-transcribe. The dosage panel compares exact value-and-unit matches on 94 reference dosage events, separate from word error rate.
Context
The small 94-event panel is not a clinical safety validation and does not measure all medication errors. Omi Health publishes no confidence interval or immutable serving revision.
Source Omi Health Medical STT Benchmark
VoiceCodeBench v2, GPT-Transcribe batch, WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
6.1
Score
6.1
Metric
format-invariant word error rate (WER), lower is better
Unit
%
Benchmark version
VoiceCodeBench v2, arXiv:2608.28916v2 Table 5; per-model artifact date is not linked to the aggregate CSV revision
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
community-reported
Evaluator
BeSimple AI Voice Code Bench
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Community-reported result. The arXiv v2 Table 5 row for `OpenAI gpt-transcribe` is raw-audio-only batch ASR on VoiceCodeBench, with no benchmark prompt, target/entity list, domain labels, custom vocabulary, grammar constraints or post-ASR correction; it publishes WER 6.1%, and this cell uses the paper's published precision. A separately pinned per-model artifact names API model ID `gpt-transcribe`, endpoint `https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions`, batch mode and evaluation date 2026-09-01. The separately pinned aggregate CSV contains the matching row name `openai_gpt_transcribe` and WER 0.061431750390606506 in its native ratio field. The CSV is pinned at repository revision `8edfa398...`, while the per-model artifact is pinned at `bef2824...`. No published commit-level link assigns both files to the same run, so this cell does not convert a more precise percent value or assign the JSON artifact date to the CSV row. The word denominator, confidence interval and immutable API backend snapshot are not published.
Context
BeSimple AI is the commercial external benchmark publisher. The available sources do not establish independent execution or independent reproduction, so this is classified as a neutral community-reported result, not an OpenAI/vendor claim. The API model is an unversioned alias and no immutable serving snapshot is published. Current OpenAI documentation confirms the current file-transcription endpoint, but does not establish which backend snapshot served the 2026-09-01 run. The existing Vals AI VoiceCodeBench page states that its own scores are not directly comparable to paper baselines because model versions, providers and streaming settings may differ. No Vals GPT-Transcribe batch observation was present in the frozen lane input; no inference is made about why scores differ across configurations.
Source BeSimple AI Voice Code Bench

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Popularity compared

How often the model is searched for, used and mentioned, compared with every model of its category.

Popularity index

0 to 100, higher is more popular

20 of 83 models

As of November 2026 · Source: gradually.ai popularity index

Over time

Weekly values from October 18, 2026 to November 6, 2026

GPT-TranscribeGPT-Realtime-Whisper 34GPT-4o Mini Transcribe 33Eleven v3 Conversational 31Index-Echo-S2ST-2B 30

Method changes in the timeline, a jump at these points is no market event:

  1. 1November 1, 2026: Value only with search or usage data, 30-day attention

What is gaining popularity right now, across models, vendors, harnesses and AI subscriptions, is collected in All AI trends.

All specifications

Architecture

Model class
Speech recognition
Source: Model class

Input and output

Input
Audio file
Source: Input
Output
Text
Source: Output
Capabilities
Unstructured context, keyword hints, language hints, and code-switching
Source: Capabilities

Watermarking and provenance

AI watermarking refers to invisible signals embedded in the output. Visible marks and provenance metadata are listed separately. Unknown means there is insufficient evidence for that particular field.

AI watermarking
Unknown
no source
Watermarking technique
Not known
no source

Licence and access

API

API model ID
gpt-transcribe
Source: API model ID

Further details

Task
Transcription
Source: Task
Supported details
File transcription
Source: Supported details

Prices

Transcription price
$0.0045 per audio minuteSource

Sources and data date

Show all 34 sources

Benchmark sources at a glance

Which independent evaluators tested this model. This is coverage, not a quality ranking.

EvaluatorTest seriesComposite indicesRecorded active measurements
Artificial Analysis001

Without vendor claims and historical or disputed results; those stay labelled in the single values. 1 measurements are not yet assigned to a test series.

TypeEvidence and data date
Research statusResearch date October 15, 2026. 28 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Additional sourceOpenAI model documentation (retrieved September 24, 2026; October 15, 2026; October 16, 2026; October 17, 2026; October 25, 2026) · OpenAI GPT-Transcribe model documentation · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional sourceOpenAI API changelog (retrieved October 25, 2026)
Additional sourceArtificial Analysis (retrieved October 15, 2026)
Additional sourceElevenLabs model evaluation (retrieved October 15, 2026)
Additional sourceAppen MedTerm-90 (retrieved October 16, 2026)
Additional sourceOmi Health Medical STT Benchmark (retrieved October 17, 2026; October 23, 2026)
Additional sourceBeSimple AI Voice Code Bench (retrieved October 17, 2026)12
Additional sourceSuperwhisper speech benchmark (retrieved October 17, 2026)
Additional sourceSpeko Speech-to-Text benchmark (retrieved October 18, 2026)
Additional sourceSauti (retrieved October 20, 2026)
Additional sourceAudioScrape (retrieved October 20, 2026)
Additional sourceOcular Converse-STT Benchmark (retrieved October 21, 2026; October 23, 2026)
Additional sourcePerit PERIT-STT leaderboard (retrieved October 22, 2026)
Additional sourceHugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (retrieved October 28, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 15, 2026)1234
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 17, 2026)123456
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 20, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 28, 2026)12
Additional sourceOpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceVercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceOllama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index
Additional sourceReplicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index
Additional sourceGoogle Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US
Additional sourceCreative Commons Attribution 4.0