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Chirp 3 Transcription (Google Cloud Speech-to-Text)

Model idchirp_3

Price$0.016 per minute

Checked29 September 2026

Where it stands

81newer speech and audio models since its release

The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models

Before it from Google
Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio (Live, preview)23 Sep 2025
After it from Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live (preview)26 Mar 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

Where to use Chirp 3 Transcription (Google Cloud Speech-to-Text), with its model id.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Chirp 3 Transcription (Google Cloud Speech-to-Text)
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API V2 chirp_3 https://speech.googleapis.com/v2 (Recognize, StreamingRecognize, BatchRecognize) docs.cloud.google.com

Pricing

Prices for Chirp 3 Transcription (Google Cloud Speech-to-Text)
Per minute$0.016

As published: “USD per minute, Speech-to-Text V2 standard recognition, first 500K min/month (tiers down to $0.004/min above 2M min)”.

Source: cloud.google.com, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Audio
Output
Text
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
13 October 2025
Status
Current
Type
Speech and audio

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Multilingual ASR with language-agnostic mode

    ~100+ languages/locales (about 20 GA), language_codes=[‘auto’] for language-agnostic transcription, diarization in ~15 languages, speech adaptation.

    Source: docs.cloud.google.com

Notes

Private preview 2025-04-11, public preview 2025-08-29, GA 2025-10-13 (US/EU multi-region). No word-level timestamps or word confidence. For developers, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (2026-08-26) claims 70% faster time-to-final than Chirp 3.

Sources: Chirp 3 docs, STT release notes, pricing.