Introducing Universal-1

AssemblyAI has launched Universal-1, a multilingual speech-to-text model trained on 12.5 million hours of audio data in four major languages - English, Spanish, French, and German. The model boasts best-in-class accuracy, reduced word error rate, improved timestamp estimation, and is designed to handle various conditions such as background noise, accented speech, natural conversations, and language changes. Universal-1 has shown significant improvements over previous models in terms of accuracy, hallucination reduction, and precise timestamp estimation. The model's capabilities are expected to power the next generation of AI products and features built with voice data.