{
  "id": 5179671,
  "title": "Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, with real-time diarization for 20+ speakers: a steal for enterprises?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/meta-prices-muse-voice-transcribe-at-0-18-an-hour-with-real-time",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-02T21:32:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "VentureBeat",
    "slug": "venturebeat",
    "url": "https://venturebeat.com/technology/meta-prices-muse-voice-transcribe-at-0-18-an-hour-with-real-time-diarization-for-20-speakers-a-steal-for-enterprises"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Meta has launched Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time speech-to-text model designed to transcribe audio as it happens. Priced at $0.18 per hour, the service supports up to 20 simultaneous speakers, making it competitive in the rapidly growing real-time speech processing market. Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse is trained on over 70 languages, with 25 extensively validated for the initial release. The model integrates speaker diarization, endpointing, and multilingual code-switching within a single architecture, potentially offering enterprise applications like meeting systems and live assistants more reliable context. While other companies like Speechmatics and Amazon Transcribe offer higher speaker counts, Meta's pricing and integrated approach give Muse a competitive edge.",
  "summary": "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. Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse is designed to process speech while it…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}