Gemini-3.5-Transcribe

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, launched on August 26, 2026, marks a significant improvement over the previous Chirp 3 transcription model. It offers new capabilities, reduced word error rates, and notably better latency, with a 70% improvement in time to final transcription. The model demonstrates precise multilingual performance on the FLEURS benchmark, achieving a 5.50% WER in streaming mode and 5.04% WER in non-streaming use-cases.