Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google's newest transcription model, cleans up ums and restarts.
Free
- Best for
- Dictation and clean written transcripts
- On your PC
- No, online only
- Works on
- Mac, Android, API
- Made by
What’s good
- Very low error rate, among the top ten
- Removes filler words and self-corrections automatically
- Handles 85+ languages and switching mid-sentence
Downsides
- Free API use may be used to improve Google products
- Consumer apps so far only Mac Gemini app and Gboard
- No simple upload-a-file app for long recordings
The details.
- For developers
- about $0.005 per minute (paid tier)
- Version
- Gemini 3.5 TranscribeReleased 2026-08-26
- Open source
- No
- Made by
- Website
- blog.google
How it ranks.
- Artificial Analysis speech to text, AA-WER %#9 · 2.6% errors2026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
No. It only runs online.
Your prompts and files go to the company’s servers. See the local options in this category for a private alternative.
Want it offline? The best local option for speech to text is Whisper large-v3 turbo.