I the past month or so, I added 2 models to my app Whisper Memos (https://whispermemos.com):
- Cohere Transcribe (self hosted)
- Grok Speech To Text (they provide an API, only $0.10/hr!)
They are both excellent. I'm not sure about this one. Would you like to see it in a consumer speech to text app?
I've had good experiences with the Mistral Voxtral models (I've used the API, but some of the model-variants are open weight)
Does Cohere work with longer transcripts? Do you have to do some magic to merge recordings over 35 seconds long?
Have you tried qwen?
Any non-Musk alternatives that are comparable in quality and cost?
Voxtral competes on price ($0.003/min) and quality. Speechmatics has best in class accuracy but is a bit more expensive ($0.004/min)
Our default is still OpenAI Whisper. Grok is just a choice for users who might prefer it.