emerging · 0.2 market domain

Speech

Score 22.2 / 100 38 providers 19 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (37)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 17 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Emerging 9 Early or largely undocumented

APIs with this tag (18)

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 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
46.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.0
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
5.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Text-to-Speech 11 co-occurrences Vision 5 co-occurrences Voices 5 co-occurrences Transcription 6 co-occurrences Translation 5 co-occurrences Image-Generation 5 co-occurrences Voice 11 co-occurrences Conversational AI 10 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag24
Api tag19
Openapi tag8
Openapi op tag14

Cohort brief

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The 37 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Speech, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
37
of 38 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
37.6
+16.9 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
21.5
+11.8 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
14–59.6
median 41 · σ 12.6
How the 37 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 3Developing 17Thin 8Emerging 9Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 42.5 17.9 +24.6 37
Contract Quality 39.2 17.5 +21.7 37
Access Clarity 38.3 22.3 +16 37
Operational Transparency 23.8 11.3 +12.5 37
Discoverability 70.6 60.4 +10.2 37
Contract Governance 11 6.4 +4.6 37

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
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 30% 16% +14
MCP server (first-party) 11% 7% +4
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 16% 9% +7
Security 97% 88% +9
Arazzo workflows 3% 2% +1
Governance rules 27% 13% +14

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. 1 Amazon Polly 59.6
  2. 2 SLNG 56.9
  3. 3 Convai 54.3
  4. 4 AT&T 50.9
  5. 5 Fixie 49.8
  6. 6 Microsoft Azure Cloud 49.8
  7. 7 Bolna 48.8
  8. 8 StepFun 47.8
  9. 9 LMNT 46.1
  10. 10 Google Cloud Speech-To-Text 45.8
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 SK Telecom 43.7
  2. 2 Phonic 40.8
  3. 3 Google 39.2
  4. 4 Bolna 37.4
  5. 5 AT&T 37.3
  6. 6 Krisp 34
  7. 7 StepFun 30.6
  8. 8 SLNG 30
  9. 9 Lingopal 29
  10. 10 Microsoft Products APIs 28.7
This roster declares 38 members; 37 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 37 carry a score (100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.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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