a speech review

Author: AlexanderHodicke

ai/ai-speech/README.md

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 # AI Speech
 
-OCI Speech is an AI service that applies automatic speech recognition technology to transform audio-based content into text. Developers can easily make API calls to integrate OCI Speech’s pre-trained models into their applications. OCI Speech can be used for accurate, text-normalized, time-stamped transcription via the console and REST APIs as well as command-line interfaces or SDKs. You can also use OCI Speech in an OCI Data Science notebook session. With OCI Speech, you can filter profanities, get confidence scores for both single words and complete transcriptions, and more.
+OCI Speech offers speech-to-text (STT) capabilities for files and real-time streams, as well as text-to-speech (TTS) functionality - All in one solution.
 
-Reviewed: 11.06.2026
+It’s accessible via Console, REST, CLI, and SDKs. Outputs are written to your Object Storage bucket as JSON (with word-level timestamps & confidences) and optionally SRT for captions.
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+Recent updates include Live Transcribe for real-time ASR and Whisper model support for multilingual transcription alongside Oracle’s native ASR models.
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+Reviewed: 25.09.2025
 
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 # Useful Links
 
+- [OCI Speech Release Notes](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/releasenotes/services/speech/index.htm)
 - [AI Solutions Hub](https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/solutions/)
 - [Oracle AI Speech on oracle.com](https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/speech/)
 - [Oracle AI Speech documentation](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/speech/home.htm)
-- [Oracle Speech AI service now supports diarization](https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/oracle-speech-ai-service-now-supports-diarization)
 - [OCI Speech supports the Whisper model](https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/oci-speech-supports-the-whisper-model)
 - [OCI Speech supports text-to-speech and real-time transcription with customized vocabulary](https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/oci-speech-texttospeech-realtime-transcription-custom-vocab)