Gladia provides speech-to-text transcription and audio enrichment APIs supporting over 100 languages with low latency and enterprise security.
What it is
Gladia is an audio infrastructure platform that lets developers transcribe, record, and enrich voice data using a single API. It handles batch file uploads, real-time WebSocket streaming, and live microphone input, turning conversational audio into clean, structured data for downstream systems.
Key features
- Real-time and async speech-to-text transcription across 100+ languages with automatic language detection and code-switching.
- Built-in speaker diarization to separate individual speakers in multi-party conversations.
- Named entity recognition to extract names, companies, emails, and dates directly from transcripts.
- Sentiment analysis and summarization pipelines for conversational insights.
- Enterprise security features including GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
Who it's for
Gladia is built for software developers and engineering teams creating meeting assistants, voice agents, customer support platforms, and media applications who need reliable speech recognition.
Pricing
Gladia offers a pay-as-you-go Starter tier with 50€ in free credits, starting at $0.61 per hour for async transcription and $0.75 per hour for real-time processing. Higher-volume Growth and custom Enterprise plans are also available.
Use cases
- Transcribe long audio recordings into text
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