Models · Speech to text

Speech to text for Hindi phone calls.

It hears the Hindi and Hinglish people speak on the phone, and gives the transcript back fast.

an hour of recorded calls³
₹15
a minute of live audio
₹0.30
word errors on Hindi phone calls (Sarvam 21.6%)²
18.3%
to a final transcript²
82 ms

Why Mira STT

It is made for the way India talks on the phone.

It hears Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, and the English mixed into them.

  1. 01

    Hindi as it is spoken

    Code-mixed Hindi and English, with names and numbers mid-sentence, each word kept in its own script.

  2. 02

    Done when the caller stops

    On 158 Hindi phone clips sent from India, the final transcript came 82 ms after the caller stopped speaking (80th percentile).

  3. 03

    Made for phone calls

    Built for 8 kHz phone-line audio, and served on our own engine and GPUs in India.

The test

We tested it on real Hindi phone recordings.

The same public clips through each company’s own API on 20 October 2026, scored the same way.

Voice Infra and Sarvam: speech recognition on Hindi phone calls and on read speech. Lower is better on every row.
MeasureVoice InfraSarvam
Errors on Hindi phone calls, word error rateLower is better 18.3% 499 public phone recordings 21.6% Saaras v4
Final transcript after the caller stops, 80th percentileLower is better 82 ms 158 Hindi phone clips, from India 290 ms Realtime API
Errors on clean read Hindi, word error rateLower is better 10.1% Kathbath read speech 5.8% Saaras v4

Sarvam is better on clean read speech. The test, run on 20 October 2026 through each company's own API, is on our Sarvam comparison.

Pricing

Speech to text is priced by the minute of audio.

Live audio by the minute, recorded calls by the hour, billed by the second.

Speech to text

Mira STT

₹0.30a minute of audio, over HTTP or the WebSocket³

₹15an hour of recorded audio, transcribed offline

  • Speech to text is billed per second of audio you send, on HTTP and on the WebSocket alike.
  • Offline transcription: speaker-labelled transcript with a speaker id per voice · Recordings up to 2 hours · Shared endpoint · No contractual SLA.
Read the STT quickstart
Endpoint
POST /v2/transcriptions, with the same sk_live_ key as the rest of the v2 API.
Languages
Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, and the English mixed into them. The phone-call test on this page is Hindi.
Where it runs
On our own engine and GPUs in India.
In a call
Every Voice Infra agent listens with Mira STT, inside the agent’s per-minute price.

Questions

Questions people ask about Mira STT.

What is Mira STT?

Our own speech-to-text model, built for conversational, phone-line Hindi and Hinglish, and served on our own engine.

How accurate is it on phone calls?

On 499 public Hindi phone recordings at 8 kHz, Mira STT made 18.3% word errors, against 21.6% for Sarvam’s Saaras v4 on the same clips. On clean read Hindi, Saaras does better: 5.8% against our 10.1%. Send twenty of your own calls and score them.

How fast is the transcript?

On 158 Hindi phone clips streamed from India, the final transcript came 82 ms after the caller stopped (80th percentile). Sarvam’s Realtime API took 290 ms on the same clips.

What does it cost?

₹0.30 a minute of audio, live over the WebSocket or in HTTP clips of up to 120 seconds, metered by the second. Recorded calls of up to 2 hours cost ₹15 an hour, charged once the job completes; degraded and failed jobs are free. All prices exclude GST.

Which languages does it support?

Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, including English words mixed into them. The phone-call test on this page is Hindi.

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  1. AI agents: T5 is ₹5 a minute, pay as you go, with our phone line and call insights included. At volume, T1 is ₹1 a minute on ₹1,00,000 a month, and ₹1.50 with our phone line (₹0.30) and call insights (₹0.20). Prices exclude GST.

  2. Hindi phone audio: 499 public Gramvaani recordings at 8 kHz (AI4Bharat Vistaar), run through each company’s own API on 20 October 2026 and scored the same way. Sarvam’s Saaras v4 scored 21.6% on the same clips. On clean read Hindi (Kathbath, 100 clips) Saaras does better, 5.8% against our 10.1%. The 82 ms is the 80th percentile on 158 Hindi phone clips streamed from India; Sarvam’s Realtime API took 290 ms.

  3. Models are priced on their own, never at an agent call's rate: speech to text costs ₹0.30 a minute of audio over HTTP or the WebSocket, and offline batch transcription ₹15 an hour of recorded audio. Monthly commitments are credited to your wallet. Unused credit never expires. All prices exclude GST.

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