Speech Recognition
Providers using this tag (52)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Emerging 13 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 13 Almost no public developer surface
APIs with this tag (11)
Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
OCI AI Speech APIAI service for converting audio and media files to accurate text transcriptions in JSON and SRT formats usi...StepFun Audio APISpeech synthesis (TTS), voice cloning with preview, official voice catalog, audio transcription, and file-b...Unisound AI Open Platform Speech WebAPIWebSocket speech APIs on the Unisound AI Open Platform: one-sentence speech recognition (Mandarin, Cantones...Unisound Token Hub APIMulti-modal MaaS API for Unisound U2 models: OpenAI-compatible chat completions and Anthropic-compatible me...
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Nuance Mix ASRaaS gRPC APIAutomatic Speech Recognition as a Service — convert speech to text in real time over a gRPC streaming API (...Nuance Mix NRaaS gRPC APIGrammar-based recognition as a Service — grammar-driven speech recognition over a gRPC runtime service.IBM Watson Speech to TextConvert speech into text using AI-powered speech recognition and transcription. The service uses machine le...Houndify Voice AI APIThe Houndify platform provides HTTP and WebSocket APIs that accept text or audio queries and return actiona...TorchAudio APIAudio processing library for PyTorch.
Score breakdown
Frequency
49.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
34.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
18.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
Transcription 19 co-occurrences
Speech-to-Text 14 co-occurrences
Voice AI 19 co-occurrences
Text-to-Speech 10 co-occurrences
Conversational AI 14 co-occurrences
Natural Language Processing 7 co-occurrences
Contact Center 7 co-occurrences
Voice 10 co-occurrences
Where this tag comes from
Provider tag50
Api tag13
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 52 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Speech Recognition, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
52
all scored
Mean Kin Score
28.6
+7.9 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
11.5
+1.8 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
5–65.3
median 25.5 · σ 17.9
How the 52 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 5Developing 12Thin 9Emerging 13Minimal 13
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.8 | 17.9 | +13.9 | 52 |
| Access Clarity | 33.1 | 22.3 | +10.8 | 52 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 | 11.3 | +7.1 | 52 |
| Contract Quality | 21.8 | 17.5 | +4.3 | 52 |
| Discoverability | 64.1 | 60.4 | +3.7 | 52 |
| Contract Governance | 8.1 | 6.4 | +1.7 | 52 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 25% | 16% | +9 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 6% | 7% | -1 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 6% | 9% | -3 |
| Security | 92% | 88% | +4 |
| Arazzo workflows | 4% | 2% | +2 |
| Governance rules | 12% | 13% | -1 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 Gridspace 65.3
- 2 PyannoteAI 61.4
- 3 SLNG 56.9
- 4 Suki AI 56.3
- 5 ASAPP 55.5
- 6 Oracle 53
- 7 Amazon Transcribe 50.7
- 8 Speechmatics 50.4
- 9 StepFun 47.8
- 10 Allo-Media 47.2
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Oracle 41.9
- 2 PyannoteAI 40.9
- 3 Allo-Media 39.9
- 4 StepFun 30.6
- 5 ASAPP 30.4
- 6 SLNG 30
- 7 Kotoba 28.5
- 8 Speechmatics 28.1
- 9 Reson8 27.5
- 10 VerbIT 25.9
All 52 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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