Telnyx.
Transcription on Telnyx's own global network, co-located with voice and messaging APIs.
Directory noteThe owned-network option: STT plus carrier-grade voice on one platform.
Telnyx speech-to-text API overview
The four signals that usually narrow a speech-to-text shortlist first. Prices are the cheapest documented async tier; native billing units differ, so read the notes below.
Telnyx pricing, languages, and features
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- Company
- Telnyx
- Listed price
- $0.0150 / minTelnyx STT engine, pay-as-you-go, $0.015/min.
- Languages
- 100100 supported languages per the Telnyx product page, with automatic language detection.
- Real-time streaming
- Yes
- Speaker diarization
- YesDiarization is available via the Deepgram (real-time) and Google (recording) engines, not the default Telnyx/Whisper engine.
- Free tier or trial
- NoNo free tier documented on the speech-to-text pages specifically (a general Telnyx trial credit exists sitewide).
- Models
- openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo
Pricing, languages, streaming, and diarization verified against Telnyx’s primary sources on 2026-08-27. Word error rate and latency are not yet measured.
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