Venturebeat iconVenturebeatSep 2, 2026 ~1 min source read

Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, with real-time diarization for 20+ speakers: a steal for enterprises?

Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse is designed to process speech while it happens rather than waiting for a recording to finish. Meta's launch post for Muse Voice Transcribe says the model supports long audio exceeding an hour, seamless multilingual code-switching, language and keyword biasing, and diarization without a separate post-processing pipeline.

Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, with real-time diarization for 20+ speakers: a steal for enterprises?

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Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse is designed to process speech while it happens rather than waiting for a recording to finish.

Meta's launch post for Muse Voice Transcribe says the model supports long audio exceeding an hour, seamless multilingual code-switching, language and keyword biasing, and diarization without a separate...

The model was trained across more than 70 languages, with 25 extensively validated for the initial release.

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Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse is designed to process speech while it happens rather than waiting for a recording to finish. Meta's launch post for Muse Voice Transcribe says the model supports long audio exceeding an hour, seamless multilingual code-switching, language and keyword biasing, and diarization without a separate post-processing pipeline. The model was trained across more than 70 languages, with 25 extensively validated for the initial release.

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Meta is entering the increasingly competitive real-time speech-to-text market with Muse Voice Transcribe, a new audio perception model that combines streaming transcription, endpoint detection and speaker diarization for more than 20 speakers — at a public API price of just $0.18 per hour of processed audio. The 20-plus-speaker figure is substantial, but it is not a world record. Speechmatics' real-time transcription service says it can identify 50 speakers by default and up to 100 when the limit is increased, while Amazon Transcribe's diarization documentation specifies a maximum of 30 unique speakers, including for streaming transcription.

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