# speech recognition insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged speech recognition.

Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/speech-recognition/

## Topics
- [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable.
- [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work.
- [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries.
- [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs.

## Stories
- [Google released MedASR as a 105M medical-dictation speech-to-text foundation model](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-google-medasr-medical-speech-december-2025/)
  Google’s MedASR release artifact records December 18, 2025 for a 105-million-parameter Conformer model built for medical speech transcription and adaptation.
- [NVIDIA positioned Parakeet v2 as an English speech-recognition research model, not a universal transcription result](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-nvidia-parakeet-v2-speech-ai-june-2025/)
  NVIDIA’s June 4, 2025 overview listed Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 as an ASR model with timestamps, punctuation and lyrics support; benchmark claims remain vendor-reported.
- [Kyutai presented Unmute as a modular speech wrapper for text models, while deferring its open-source release](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-kyutai-unmute-modular-voice-ai-may-2025/)
  Kyutai announced Unmute on May 28, 2025 as modular real-time STT and TTS around a text language model; it said open sourcing would follow in coming weeks.
- [ElevenLabs released Scribe as its first speech-to-text model](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-elevenlabs-scribe-february-2025/)
  ElevenLabs released Scribe on February 26, 2025, adding a 99-language speech-to-text model with structured transcripts, diarization, word timestamps and audio-event tags.
- [Kyutai released Hibiki’s French-to-English voice-translation research artifacts with a narrow language boundary](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-kyutai-hibiki-simultaneous-translation-february-2025/)
  Kyutai’s February 6, 2025 release described Hibiki as French-to-English speech translation with voice preservation; it did not establish broader coverage or deployment outcomes.


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