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Muse Voice Transcribe 1.0 is a closed-weights speech-to-text model from Meta, released September 2026. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

Meta Superintelligence Labs' streaming ASR + diarization + endpointing model on the Meta Model API, exact API model string muse-voice-transcribe-1.0 (Meta pricing table). Launched 2026-09-01 per Meta's developer blog (dated Sep 3, 2026: 'This week, Meta launched ... Muse Voice Transcribe, on Meta Model API'). Closed weights. Pipecat benchmarked exactly model='muse-voice-transcribe-1.0' (MetaSTTService) on 2026-09-11.

71.0±3.3#1 of 162 speech-to-text modelsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026) comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The speech-to-text models ranked either side of Muse Voice Transcribe 1.0, out of 176 with a score, then more from Meta.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
1Muse Voice Transcribe 1.0 Meta71±3api $0.0030/audio min2026-09
2Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 xAI70±3api $0.0017/audio min2026-09
3Saarika v2.5 Sarvam AI70±5comparison only2025-05
4Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime AssemblyAI70±3api $0.0075/audio min2026-09
5Linden 1 (Agent STT) Speechmatics69±3api $0.0050/audio min2026-09
more from Meta
58Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B Meta58±2local~19GB2025-11
59Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B v2 Meta58±3local~19GB2025-12
62Omnilingual ASR LLM 3B Meta57±2local~11GB2025-11

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$ what it's good at

other tests1 not in a task · 96% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Pipecat STT Benchmark · pooled semantic WER (1000 smart-turn samples, Sonnet 5.5 judge)0.7% ✎▃·▃▅·▅▅·▃▅██ beats 16/16avg 4.8%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 96%typical

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · $0.0030/audio min · developer.meta.com ↗ · price sourceUSD per input audio minute: Meta's model page pricing table lists muse-voice-transcribe-1.0 at $3.00 per 1,000 min / $0.18 per hour (÷1000). Product: Meta Model API speech-to-text (streaming wss://api.meta.ai/v1/asr/realtime and file https://api.meta.ai/v1/asr/transcribe). API model: muse-voice-transcribe-1.0. Price basis: published list rate. Currency: USD. Meta official model page, observed 2026-10-09.

$ how the score was worked out · Pipecat STT Benchmark · seman… 96%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 96%BSD-2-Clause
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 4%
weighted average= 71.0

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