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Closed transcription models

17 in the catalogue today. Every one with what it costs, who sells it and where it stands.

Models that turn recorded speech into text. They are metered by the minute or the second of audio, so cost follows the length of the recording and not the difficulty of it. What separates them is languages covered, whether they mark who is speaking, and whether they run in real time or only on a finished file — a model that is excellent on a podcast may be unusable on a live call.

Models whose weights are not published and which are bought through somebody's API. You get the maker's infrastructure, their scale and their uptime, and no way to run the thing yourself or to keep it if it is withdrawn. Most of the strongest models are here, so this is less a choice than a fact about the market; the choice is which seller you buy the same model from, and the catalogue holds their prices side by side.

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