# Inworld STT

> Inworld's speech-to-text API runs its inworld/inworld-stt-1 model in 30 languages over synchronous HTTP, bidirectional WebSocket streaming and asynchronous jobs, returning Voice Profile signals (age, emotion, pitch, accent) and turn detection alongside the transcript.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt
- Pricing: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt#pricing
- Reviews: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt#reviews
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt.md (~7,250 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt.min.md (~1,430 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- DNS: dig +short TXT inworld-stt.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.<category>. and <a>.vs.<b>. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-11-07

## Overview

**Grade C · 54.7/100 · rank #895 of 1486 · #16 in Speech-to-text · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


More from Inworld AI, listed separately because each is its own product: [Inworld Realtime TTS-2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-tts.md) (Text-to-speech), [Inworld Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-realtime.md) (Conversational voice agents), [Inworld Instant Voice Cloning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-voice-cloning.md) (Voice cloning & custom voices).

## Assessment

Inworld STT costs $0.10 to $0.15 an hour with 400 free minutes, and covers files, live streams and async jobs in 30 languages with Voice Profile signals. There is no machine-readable spec, no public STT changelog and no readable status history, and diarisation is still experimental.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | Inworld AI (https://inworld.ai) |
| Kind | Model API |
| Category | Speech-to-text (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/speech-to-text) |
| Transport | HTTP, websocket |
| Auth | API key · Every call sends `Authorization: Basic` with the Base64 `key_id:secret` credential from the Portal or the CLI. Keys belong to a workspace and are deleted to revoke. Browsers pass a one-time token in the `bearer_` WebSocket subprotocol rather than the URL. |
| Pricing | Pay per use (Pay per use) · $0.15 an hour of audio on the free On-Demand plan and $0.10 on the paid plans ($25 to $1,500 a month), billed per second. On-Demand includes up to 400 minutes free. Diarisation and Voice Profile are separate per-second add-ons. Asynchronous jobs need a payment method. |
| x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or pricing page (checked 2026-11-06). Plans and credits are bought in the Portal. |
| Licence | unknown |
| Tools exposed | 0 |
| Packages | npm: `@inworld/cli` |
| Docs | https://docs.inworld.ai/stt/overview |
| llms.txt | https://docs.inworld.ai/llms.txt |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 |
| Surface listed | The STT API at api.inworld.ai/stt/v1, read from docs.inworld.ai (llms.txt, Markdown pages, API reference), inworld.ai/pricing and inworld.ai/speech-to-text on 6 November 2026, with terms, privacy, security and status as read for inworld-tts on 4 November. No account was made and no request was sent |
| Model | `inworld/inworld-stt-1`. The billing page also bills third-party STT models through the same API by the duration the provider reports, such as `groq/whisper-large-v3` with a ten-second minimum |
| Languages | 30, with `language` as a hint the model may not follow; BCP-47 codes are reduced to the base code |
| Audio | LINEAR16, MP3, OGG_OPUS, FLAC or AUTO_DETECT, inline Base64 or multipart upload on the sync route |
| Signals | Voice Profile (age, emotion, pitch, vocal style, accent), turn detection automatic or manual, word timestamps and experimental diarisation |
| Same company | Inworld TTS is listed as inworld-tts. The Realtime API, listed as inworld-realtime, bills its speech recognition as STT on this model |
| MCP server | Ships inside `@inworld/cli` (1.5.0, 29 October 2026, MIT) as `inworld mcp`, with an STT transcription tool among TTS, voice and LLM tools |
| Capabilities | speech.stt, speech.streaming, speech.batch, speech.diarisation, speech.languages |
| Tags | hosted, usage, free-tier, no-card, closed-source, llms-txt, streaming, batch, mcp, enterprise |
| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inworld-stt.json |

## Score breakdown (methodology v0.7, October 2026 research run)

Assessed 2026-11-06 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points.

| Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% | 20 | 60 | 12.0 |
| Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 54 | 8.8 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 56 | 9.1 |
| Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 63 | 11.0 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 40 | 5.0 |
| Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 41 | 3.6 |
| Transparency & trust (editorial 45, provenance 75) | 7% | 8.8 | 60 | 5.2 |
| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 |
| **Total** | | | | **54.7 → C** |

### Why each score

- Reliability 60 (checked 2026-11-06): Hosted reading of the checklist. status.inworld.ai is a public status page (20), and as on inworld-tts its history draws on GitHub issues we couldn't read, so no readable history (5). Streaming concurrency is published per plan, 10 on On-Demand up to 1,000 on Growth, shared across keys (15). 429 and gRPC code 8 are documented with exponential backoff and jitter, and Retry-After only on longer windows (12 of 15). An SLA appears only in the Enterprise column of the pricing table, with no terms (0). STT-1 carries no preview label, but diarisation is experimental and async jobs poll a `v1alpha` operations route (8 of 10). 20 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 8 = 60.
- Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes.
- Schema & documentation 54 (checked 2026-11-06): No OpenAPI or other machine-readable file. The usual spec paths redirect, and the reference pages are Markdown (0). llms.txt, Markdown twins and a docs MCP server (10). Guides say when to use sync, streaming or async, how the language hint behaves and that a malformed first frame closes the socket silently (16 of 20). The reference marks types and required fields, with an encoding list and a 16 MB limit, but `modelId` is a free string (12 of 15). Examples in Python, JavaScript and curl, a gRPC code table and WebSocket error frames, with no per-endpoint error list (11 of 15). Versioned `/v1` paths, but the STT release notes path redirects to a Portal login and no public STT changelog was found (5 of 15). Total 54.
- Agent ergonomics 56 (checked 2026-11-06): API reading of the checklist. Voice Profile, word timestamps and diarisation are opt-in, and responses carry a `usage` block (18 of 25). No lists to page. Async jobs return an operation to poll (8 of 20). Errors carry a numeric gRPC code and message on both endpoints, but a malformed first message closes the socket with 1005 and no frame (12 of 20). Sync calls are stateless and async calls return an operation, with no idempotency key, and empty transcripts and add-ons are billed (10 of 20). A call needs a model, an encoding and the audio. No STT SDK was found, only the CLI and its MCP server and REST examples (8 of 15). Total 56.
- Security & auth 63 (checked 2026-11-06): Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of the least-privilege and injection lines. Workspace API keys sent as Basic credentials, deleted to revoke, with separate keys per environment advised. The CLI mints read-only keys unless `--write` is given, but write toggles cover only the Voice and Router APIs, so no key is limited to one product. Browsers use short-lived tokens minted server side, via the `bearer_` WebSocket subprotocol, not the URL (25 of 30). The Terms (11 June 2025) say Inworld won't train generally available models on customers' non-public Materials, except feedback and flagged content, while the Privacy Notice (18 January 2026) lists training AI models among its uses, per the inworld-tts check of 4 November (12 of 20). Zero data retention keeps STT audio and transcripts in memory and out of logs, included on Developer ($300 a month) and above per the docs, while the STT page says Enterprise or a Growth add-on. Async results and audio go after 7 days, and no default period is given for logs (8 of 15). Usage is attributed per key and a Performance page shows errors and throttling (8 of 15). SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA claimed and a vulnerability report form, with no security.txt or bug bounty, per the 4 November reading (10 of 20). Total 63.
- Payments & pricing 40 (checked 2026-11-06): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-hour prices for every plan published without a login (20). On-Demand includes up to 400 minutes of STT and lists no payment method, while async jobs need one (20). A person signs up in the Portal or through `inworld login` in a browser before a key exists (0). Total 40.
- Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored.
- Maintenance & community 41 (checked 2026-11-06): Read as a model. No public STT changelog. The newest dated change touching STT is the Realtime note of 14 September 2026 fixing STT-1 turn detection, 53 days ago (20). The CLI, which carries the STT command and MCP tool, shipped 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 between 13 and 29 October, counted half as client releases, and no dated STT entries were found (5 of 20). Discord and support@inworld.ai, with no evidence of answers read (6 of 15). No official STT SDK; the CLI is current (5 of 15). CLI on npm under MIT, current, CI not read (5 of 10). Total 41.
- Transparency & trust 60 (checked 2026-11-06): Closed service with clear terms naming Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI (15). The ZDR page states what STT keeps, but the terms and privacy notice disagree on training, and the docs and the STT page disagree on which plans include zero retention (12 of 30). No dated STT deprecation or change notices are public (8 of 20). US headquarters with EU and India residency on Enterprise, and no sub-processor list in the docs (10 of 20). Total 45.

Fix list, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (16 items). What it covers is at https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/inworld-stt.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/inworld-stt.json). The whole list for a coding agent comes from `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/fix-list` with `{"listing": "inworld-stt", "plan": "read"}`, free while the beta runs

### What we couldn't check

- unchecked: status history, because status.inworld.ai draws on GitHub issues our reader can't open
- unchecked: prices of the diarisation and Voice Profile add-ons
- unchecked: when STT-1 was released, since the STT release notes require a login
- Docs say zero data retention is included from the Developer plan, while inworld.ai/speech-to-text says Enterprise or a Growth add-on

### Sources

- llms.txt docs index: <https://docs.inworld.ai/llms.txt> (seen 2026-11-06)
- billing, plan limits and free usage: <https://docs.inworld.ai/portal/billing.md> (seen 2026-11-06)
- pricing page: <https://inworld.ai/pricing> (seen 2026-11-06)
- rate limits and 429 handling: <https://docs.inworld.ai/resources/rate-limits.md> (seen 2026-11-06)
- zero data retention: <https://docs.inworld.ai/portal/zero-data-retention.md> (seen 2026-11-06)
- Inworld CLI and MCP server: <https://docs.inworld.ai/developer-tools/inworld-cli.md> (seen 2026-11-06)
- CLI on npm: <https://registry.npmjs.org/@inworld/cli> (seen 2026-11-06)
- terms, privacy, security and status, per the inworld-tts check: <https://inworld.ai/terms> (seen 2026-11-04)
- STT overview: <https://docs.inworld.ai/stt/overview.md> (seen 2026-11-06)
- STT errors: <https://docs.inworld.ai/stt/troubleshooting.md> (seen 2026-11-06)
- async transcription: <https://docs.inworld.ai/stt/async-transcription.md> (seen 2026-11-06)
- STT WebSocket reference: <https://docs.inworld.ai/api-reference/sttAPI/speechtotext/transcribe-stream-websocket.md> (seen 2026-11-06)
- STT product page: <https://inworld.ai/speech-to-text> (seen 2026-11-06)

## Score history

Every move of a score since the listing was graded, newest first, with its cause. A score can't move without an entry here. JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inworld-stt/history.json

- 2026-11-06: graded 54.7 C (methodology 0.7)

## Who's behind it (provenance 75/100, checked 2026-11-06)

| Check | Finding | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legal entity named | Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI | 20/20 |
| Domain age | inworld.ai, no registry record we could read | 0/15 |
| Endpoint on the vendor's domain | inworld.ai | 15/15 |
| Terms of service | read, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects | 9.1/10 |
| Privacy policy | read, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects | 9.3/10 |
| Status page | status.inworld.ai | 10/10 |
| Changelog | published | 10/10 |
| security.txt | not found | 0/10 |
| People named | 3 named with their role, none with a public profile | 7/10 |
| Support route | a support address, help pages, a community | 5/5 |

The Terms of Service (effective 11 June 2025) are an agreement with Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI under California law, with courts in Santa Clara. The Privacy Notice (last updated 18 January 2026) names Theai, Inc.

inworld.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page links a vulnerability report form.

status.inworld.ai runs the open-source issue-status app, which draws incidents from GitHub issues in inworld-ai/inworld-issue-status. Its history wasn't read, because GitHub's robots.txt couldn't be read from our environment.

inworld.ai's robots.txt allows Claude agents on the paths read and sets `Content-Signal: ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=no`. docs.inworld.ai has no such signal.

The domain's registration date wasn't established, because the RDAP lookup failed.

firstReleased is left empty. No dated STT launch was found, and the STT release notes path asks for a Portal login.

### Terms and privacy, as read

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice.

**Terms of service** (https://inworld.ai/terms), read 2026-10-30, dated 2025-06-11, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects.

- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2025-06-11.
- Names the governing law or courts. Disputes go to the courts of Santa Clara, California.
- States a limit on its liability. Capped at the greater of $100 and the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim.
- Says how changes to the terms are announced. Gives 30 days of notice before a change.
- Not found in the text. Refers to a service level or uptime commitment.

**Privacy policy** (https://inworld.ai/privacy), read 2026-10-30, dated 2026-01-18, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects.

- To know. Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising. "Some of the activities described in this section may constitute “targeted advertising,” “sharing,” or “selling” under certain laws."
- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-01-18.
- Says how long data is kept. For as long as needed, with no period named.
- Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising. Says it does not sell personal data.
- Gives a privacy contact. privacy@inworld.ai.
- Not found in the text. Says where data is transferred or stored.

## Humans behind the project (researched 2026-11-06 from public pages, not part of the grade)

### Key people

- Kylan Gibbs, Co-founder and CEO
- Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Co-founder
- Michael Ermolenko, Co-founder
- Note: Copied on 6 November 2026 from the inworld-tts listing's humans file (checked 30 October 2026), since the company is the same. Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 page, read 30 October 2026, quotes Kylan Gibbs as CEO of Inworld AI. Inworld's Series A release of 23 August 2022, as published by Intel Capital, names Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs as founders and Ilya Gelfenbeyn as CEO at the time. No about or team page was found in the inworld.ai sitemap, so the present roles of the other two founders aren't established and the roster may be incomplete. No personal accounts are linked from Inworld's pages, so none are listed. The 28 October 2026 Reasoning post is signed by the Inworld TTS team. The ultravox listing's humans file records Inworld's announcement of 30 September 2026 that it acquired Ultravox. Investors come from the Series A release as published by Intel Capital and from The SaaS News report of the August 2023 round led by Lightspeed. Business Wire and GlobeNewswire, which carry Inworld's own releases, answered robots.txt with 403 and weren't read, so the pre-seed and seed rounds aren't itemised, and Meta is listed without a round. GamesBeat's report of 2 August 2023, read 6 November 2026, says the Lightspeed-led $50 million round brought the valuation to over $500 million and that Inworld had over $100 million in total funding; those are given as the valuation and total raised. It also quotes Michael Ermolenko as CTO and cofounder at the time. No later round was found.
- Inworld AI (Theai, Inc.): LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/inworld-ai X https://x.com/inworld GitHub https://github.com/inworld-ai

### Ownership and investors

- Raised: over $100M in total, as of August 2023 (source https://gamesbeat.com/inworld-ai-raises-new-round-at-500m-valuation-for-ai-game-characters/)
- Valuation: over $500M as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), August 2023 round led by Lightspeed, August 2023 (source https://gamesbeat.com/inworld-ai-raises-new-round-at-500m-valuation-for-ai-game-characters/)
- Backed by: Section 32, Intel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund, Accelerator Investments LLC, First Spark Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, BITKRAFT Ventures, CRV, Microsoft, Micron, LG, SK Telecom, The Venture Reality Fund, HTC, Meta, Stanford University, Samsung, The Walt Disney Company, NTT DOCOMO

### Getting support

- Discord: https://discord.gg/inworld
- Support email: support@inworld.ai
- Help: https://docs.inworld.ai/portal/support
- Help: https://docs.inworld.ai/
- Sources: https://inworld.ai/blog/realtime-tts-2, https://inworld.ai/blog/realtime-tts-2-reasoning-speed-consistency, https://inworld.ai/pricing, https://inworld.ai/terms, https://inworld.ai/security, https://inworld.ai/sitemap.xml, https://docs.inworld.ai/portal/support.md, https://www.intelcapital.com/inworld-ai-closes-50m-series-a-to-populate-video-games-and-the-metaverse-with-interactive-ai-driven-characters/

## Live (updated 2026-11-07 16:01 UTC)

- npm `@inworld/cli` 1.5.0
- security.txt: none
- Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/inworld-stt.json

## Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score.

## Prices

| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| STT-1, On-Demand | $0.0025 | per minute of audio | $0.15 an hour |
| STT-1, paid plans | $0.0017 | per minute of audio | $0.10 an hour on Creator to Growth |

Across all listings: https://www.anchorterminal.com/prices/index.md

## What a task costs (from the prices above)

| Task | Cost | At |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Transcribe a one-hour meeting (60 minutes of recorded audio) | $0.10 to $0.15 | STT-1, paid plans to STT-1, On-Demand |

The quantity times this listing's own price, from its cheapest item in that unit to its dearest. Plans, minimums and free allowances aren't counted.

## Strengths

- $0.15 an hour on the free plan and $0.10 on paid plans, billed per second, with 400 free minutes
- Sync, WebSocket streaming and async jobs on one model, with turn detection and Voice Profile signals
- Browser tokens travel in a WebSocket subprotocol, not the URL
- Zero data retention keeps audio and transcripts in memory, and the docs include it from the Developer plan
- llms.txt, Markdown twins and a docs MCP server

## Weaknesses

- No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract
- The STT release notes path asks for a login, so changes to the model aren't publicly dated
- Status history couldn't be read, and an SLA exists only for Enterprise
- Speaker diarisation is experimental and async jobs run on a `v1alpha` operations route
- Docs and the STT product page disagree on which plans include zero data retention



## Before you call it (notes for agents)

1. Send the Base64 credential as-is in `Authorization: Basic`; don't encode it again
2. Wrap the first WebSocket message in `transcribeConfig`, because a malformed first frame closes the socket with 1005 and no error
3. Use `POST /stt/v1/transcribe:async` for files over about 16 MB and collect the transcript within 7 days
4. Retry 429 or gRPC code 8 with exponential backoff and jitter, and stay within the plan's streaming concurrency
5. Stop sending audio when nobody speaks, since streams are billed for every second sent

## Connect

Install:

```bash
npm install -g @inworld/cli
```

Claude Code:

```bash
claude mcp add inworld -- inworld mcp
```

## Similar tools

Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last.

| Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Azure AI Speech speech-to-text | BB | 75.1 | 71 | speech.stt, speech.streaming, speech.batch, speech.diarisation, speech.languages | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-speech-to-text.md |
| OpenAI Speech to Text | BB | 75 | 74 | speech.stt, speech.streaming, speech.batch, speech.diarisation, speech.languages | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-speech-to-text.md |
| Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) | BB | 74.4 | 86 | speech.stt, speech.streaming, speech.batch, speech.diarisation, speech.languages | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepgram-stt.md |
| Amazon Transcribe | BB | 73.6 | 103 | speech.stt, speech.streaming, speech.batch, speech.diarisation, speech.languages | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-transcribe.md |
| ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API | BB | 73 | 113 | speech.stt, speech.streaming, speech.batch, speech.diarisation, speech.languages | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-scribe.md |
| Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP | B | 69.8 | 225 | speech.stt, speech.streaming, speech.batch, speech.diarisation, speech.languages | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gladia-stt.md |

## Panel reviews (0)

Reviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): .

Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md

## Notable

- `POST /stt/v1/transcribe` for files up to about 16 MB, `/stt/v1/transcribe:streamBidirectional` over WebSocket for live audio, and `POST /stt/v1/transcribe:async` for long recordings polled through `/lro/v1alpha` (source: <https://docs.inworld.ai/stt/async-transcription.md>)
- Streaming concurrency of 10 on On-Demand, 20, 100, 300 and 1,000 on the paid plans (source: <https://docs.inworld.ai/portal/billing.md>)
- Speaker diarisation is marked experimental for `inworld/inworld-stt-1` (source: <https://docs.inworld.ai/api-reference/sttAPI/speechtotext/transcribe-stream-websocket.md>)
- Async results and submitted audio are deleted 7 days after the job completes (source: <https://docs.inworld.ai/stt/async-transcription.md>)
- Inworld's STT page claims under 70 ms to a final transcript, citing Coval's benchmark; that is the vendor's claim (source: <https://inworld.ai/speech-to-text>)
- The `/release-notes/stt` path redirects to a Portal login, and the public release notes cover only TTS and Realtime (source: <https://docs.inworld.ai/sitemap.xml>)

- #16 of 19 in Best speech-to-text APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/speech-to-text/index.md
- All 320 stt comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/speech-to-text/index.md

## Compare

- [Amazon Transcribe vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-transcribe-vs-inworld-stt.md): BB 73.6 vs C 54.7
- [AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text (Universal) vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-stt-vs-inworld-stt.md): B 66.8 vs C 54.7
- [Azure AI Speech speech-to-text vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-speech-to-text-vs-inworld-stt.md): BB 75.1 vs C 54.7
- [Cartesia Ink vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-ink-stt-vs-inworld-stt.md): B 67 vs C 54.7
- [Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-stt-vs-inworld-stt.md): BB 74.4 vs C 54.7
- [ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-scribe-vs-inworld-stt.md): BB 73 vs C 54.7
- [Giggy Speech to Text vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/giggy-stt-vs-inworld-stt.md): C 54.5 vs C 54.7
- [Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gladia-stt-vs-inworld-stt.md): B 69.8 vs C 54.7
- [Google Cloud Speech-to-Text vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-speech-to-text-vs-inworld-stt.md): B 66.6 vs C 54.7
- [Groq Speech-to-Text vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-speech-to-text-vs-inworld-stt.md): BB 70.1 vs C 54.7
- [IBM Watson Speech to Text vs Inworld STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ibm-watson-stt-vs-inworld-stt.md): C 54.5 vs C 54.7
- [Inworld STT vs MiniMax Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-minimax-stt.md): C 54.7 vs D 48.4
- [Inworld STT vs Mistral Voxtral Transcribe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-mistral-voxtral-transcribe.md): C 54.7 vs B 63.1
- [Inworld STT vs OpenAI Speech to Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-openai-speech-to-text.md): C 54.7 vs BB 75
- [Inworld STT vs Rev AI Speech-to-Text API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-rev-ai-stt.md): C 54.7 vs C 55.5
- [Inworld STT vs Smallest.ai Pulse STT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-smallest-pulse-stt.md): C 54.7 vs B 65
- [Inworld STT vs Soniox Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-soniox-stt.md): C 54.7 vs B 68.5
- [Inworld STT vs Speechmatics Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-speechmatics-stt.md): C 54.7 vs B 67.8

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