Speechmatics Melia 1 (multilingual STT)
Launched 2026-06-17 as a production preview (docs: early access), batch only; runs alongside the Standard and Enhanced models. Benchmarks are vendor-reported.
- Input
- audio
- Output
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- per hour: $0.129 (USD per audio hour (starting price), 10 hours/month free) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speechmatics Batch API | melia-1 | batch jobs with "model": "melia-1" and "language": "multi" (EU1, US1) | docs |
Notable capabilities (1)
- Code-switching across 55+ languages without language selection: Transcribes audio that switches languages mid-conversation with no language pre-selection; Speechmatics reports it beats Deepgram and Microsoft on 91% and AssemblyAI on 77% of FLEURS languages, and 5% lower WER than its Standard model on noisy monolingual audio. source
Sources: https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/introducing-melia-multilingual-speech-to-text-model , https://docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/models