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xAI releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 speech-to-text model

September 18, 2026 · Medium importance · model

xAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, reporting roughly double the accuracy of version 1.0 at unchanged pricing of $0.10 per hour batch and $0.20 per hour streaming. The model ranks first among 32 streaming speech-to-text systems on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard and supports multilingual detection with mid-recording language switches. Existing API integrations receive the upgrade without code changes.

Date
September 18, 2026
Importance
Medium 3/5
Category
model
Axis of Change
Capability Gain
Organizations
xAI
Models Affected
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0
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