Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: Google's New Speech-to-Text Model Adds Sub-Second Streaming Transcription
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model line built to handle messy real-world audio and still output clean, readable text. The lineup includes gemini-3.5-transcribe-live for bidirectional streaming through the Live API with sub-one-second latency, plus a standard variant aimed at recorded audio. The pitch is straightforward: background noise, technical jargon, stutters, and mid-sentence self-corrections shouldn't end up cluttering the final transcript. What Google Announced Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe as a pair of speech-to-text models focused on accuracy in noisy, unscripted conditions. According to Google, the models are designed to process background noise, domain-specific terminology, stuttering, and self-corrections mid-sentence, then produce a cleaned-up transcript rather than a literal word-for-word dump of everything spoken. The streaming variant, gemini-3.5-transcribe-live, runs through the Live API and delivers bidirectional stre...