The industry is shifting focus from broad accuracy metrics to capturing critical details that power conversation intelligence applications. The Universal speech-to-text model has been improved for English, German, and Spanish languages, delivering better latency, accuracy, and language coverage compared to its October 2024 release. This upgrade achieves a 27.4% speedup in inference time, enabling faster transcription at scale. The model now excels in capturing proper nouns, accented speech, and alphanumeric entities like phone numbers and email addresses, making it more useful for business applications such as contact centers and sales coaching. Universal's strong performance across various metrics demonstrates its robustness across practical use cases, providing accurate transcripts with good text formatting that are essential for building genuine relationships through attention to detail.