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GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates

OpenAI's new transcription models trail ElevenLabs, Google, and Mistral on error rates—a rare public benchmark loss for the lab.

Reporting by The Decoder 1 min brief
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Why it matters

OpenAI shipped new speech-recognition capability, but competitive benchmarking shows it's not leading this category. For practitioners choosing transcription APIs, this is data that changes vendor evaluation. For enthusiasts, it's a rare moment where frontier labs are publicly ranked and OpenAI doesn't top the chart.

The key facts

8 to know

  1. OpenAI released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe via API

  2. Both models improve on OpenAI's predecessor

  3. ElevenLabs, Google, and Mistral have lower error rates in public benchmarks

  4. Speech-recognition capability comparison (WER/benchmarks implied but not specified in excerpt)

  5. New models improve on predecessor (Whisper implied)

  6. Benchmark comparison: trails ElevenLabs, Google, and Mistral on word error rates

  7. Live transcription capability added to OpenAI's speech portfolio

  8. Published July 29, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API.
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