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# Speechmatics Melia 1 (multilingual STT)

Speechmatics, Speechmatics STT family. Status: preview. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-06-17.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speechmatics Batch API | `melia-1` | batch jobs with "model": "melia-1" and "language": "multi" (EU1, US1) | https://docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/models |

## Pricing

- Per hour: $0.129
- Unit as published: USD per audio hour (starting price), 10 hours/month free
- Source: https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/introducing-melia-multilingual-speech-to-text-model
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: audio
- Output: text
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 50. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- After it from Speechmatics: Speechmatics Linden 1 (Agent STT) (2026-09-17) https://postcutoff.com/m/speechmatics-linden-1/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

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

## 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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/speechmatics-melia-1/