Gemini 3.5 Transcribe generally available (GA)

GAAug 26, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Released two dedicated speech-to-text models based on Gemini's audio understanding: Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (gemini-3.5-transcribe): High-accuracy, low-latency non-streaming speech-to-text with utterance-based language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing (up to 1,000 terms).

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