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SpaceXAI ships Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 at the same STT price
SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 for batch and streaming STT at $0.10/$0.20 per hour; docs already list 2.0 as the Speech-to-Text API default.
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SpaceXAI announced Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on September 18, 2026, a speech-to-text model built on the audio foundation behind Grok Voice. Official pricing matches 1.0: $0.10 per hour for batch transcription and $0.20 per hour for streaming, with speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and key terms included.
For voice-agent pipelines, the practical change is a same-price Speech-to-Text API drop-in. SpaceXAI says existing Speech-to-Text API integrations get the accuracy improvement with no code changes.
On defaults, the launch post and same-day docs do not quite match. The news post says 2.0 will soon become the Speech-to-Text API default and Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 will be deprecated in the coming weeks; callers who need 1.0 should pin grok-voice-transcribe-1.0. Developer docs last updated September 18, 2026 already state that the default is grok-voice-transcribe-2.0, with both model IDs available. Do not assume 1.0 is still the live default.
SpaceXAI says that across real-world evaluations, 2.0 is twice as accurate as 1.0 and “one of the most accurate transcription models available today.” @SpaceXAI called it “the world’s most accurate speech transcription model.” The launch post says Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 ranks first for accuracy among 32 streaming models on the public Artificial Analysis leaderboard it links. On four internal sets drawn from production traffic—telephony audio, conversations with Grok, spoken credentials, and short multilingual voice commands—the company says 2.0 improves on 1.0 across all four, and that on telephony it leads every model tested.
Agent-facing features include batch jobs on files and URLs plus realtime streaming; smart turn detection; key-term biasing for up to 100 domain terms per request; independent transcription of up to eight channels; filler-word removal; and written-form numbers, dates, currencies, phone numbers, and emails. SpaceXAI built 2.0 for hard audio—flaky phone lines, competing voices, accents, and spoken credentials—and calls multilingual accuracy the largest gain versus 1.0, with automatic language detection and mid-recording switches in a single pass. On an internal short-phrase set, it reports word error rate falling from 20.6% to 6.8%.
Atlassian Loom is named as a production user. Sanchan Saxena, SVP of Teamwork Collection at Atlassian, said Grok is powering Loom’s speech-to-text.
Read the launch post and the Speech-to-Text docs, then confirm you are calling grok-voice-transcribe-2.0 or explicitly pin grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 if you still need 1.0 before it is deprecated.