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Speechmatics Melia 1 (multilingual STT)

Model idmelia-1

Price$0.129 per hour

Checked29 September 2026

Where it stands

50newer speech and audio models since its release

The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models

After it from Speechmatics
Speechmatics Linden 1 (Agent STT)17 Sep 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

Where to use Speechmatics Melia 1 (multilingual STT), with its model id.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Speechmatics Melia 1 (multilingual STT)
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Speechmatics Batch API melia-1 batch jobs with "model": "melia-1" and "language": "multi" (EU1, US1) docs.speechmatics.com

Pricing

Prices for Speechmatics Melia 1 (multilingual STT)
Per hour$0.129

As published: “USD per audio hour (starting price), 10 hours/month free”.

Source: speechmatics.com, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Audio
Output
Text
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
17 June 2026
Status
Preview
Type
Speech and audio

What stands out

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

  • Code-switching across 55+ languages without language selection

    Transcribes audio that switches languages mid-conversation with no language pre-selection; Speechmatics reports it beats Deepgram and Microsoft on 91% and AssemblyAI on 77% of FLEURS languages, and 5% lower WER than its Standard model on noisy monolingual audio.

    Source: speechmatics.com

Notes

Launched 2026-06-17 as a production preview (docs: early access), batch only; runs alongside the Standard and Enhanced models. Benchmarks are vendor-reported.

Sources: https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/introducing-melia-multilingual-speech-to-text-model , https://docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/models