We've released Conformer-2, our latest AI model for automatic speech recognition. Conformer-2 is trained on 1.1M hours of English audio data, extending Conformer-1 to provide improvements on proper nouns, alphanumerics, and robustness to noise.

Conformer-2 is now the default model for all English audio files sent to the v2/transcript endpoint for async processing and introduces no breaking changes.

We’ll be releasing Conformer-2 for real-time English transcriptions within the next few weeks.

Read our full blog post about Conformer-2 here. You can also try it out in our Playground.