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AI teams building realtime assistants that need fast transcription, speaker context, multilingual support, and emotionally adaptive responses
About Inworld Realtime STT
Inworld Realtime STT is a realtime streaming STT API that understands users beyond their words. It combines low-latency speech recognition with voice profiling, extracting emotion, vocal style, accent, age, and pitch directly from raw audio so downstream LLMs and TTS systems can respond with more adaptive, expressive behavior. Developers can stream audio in real time, transcribe complete files, or extract voice profile signals through one unified API, with realtime bidirectional streaming over WebSocket, synchronous transcription for full audio files, voice profile signals on every streaming chunk, and multi-provider support through a single model ID. Every audio chunk can produce a realtime profile of the speaker with confidence scores, giving LLMs structured context such as whether a user sounds sad, frustrated, soft, high-pitched, or calm.
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Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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API:
Yes, Inworld Realtime STT offers API access
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Inworld
Founded: 2021
United States
inworld.ai/speech-to-text
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