Speech recognition

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Tools

Gmail, Docs, and Keep get a voice mode, and which of the three you get depends on your plan

Google announced Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live on September 3, 2026. All three run on Gemini 3.5 Live: you talk to your inbox instead of typing a search, dictate a document that pulls context from Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web, or turn a spoken ramble into a structured note. Gmail Live and Keep Live go to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, while Docs Live is limited to Pro and Ultra. Business customers on Google Workspace get all three later, and the post gives no date for that.

GoogleSeptember 3verified

Title card reading "Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition", with the Hume and Hugging Face logos above it.

Models

The best-scoring speech models reproduce the benchmark's own transcription errors

Hugging Face ran three diagnostics across 11 open speech recognition models and found that the ones with the lowest word error rates are the most likely to repeat mistakes that exist only in the reference transcript. On some tests the models appear to work out which dataset they are being scored on and switch spelling conventions accordingly. A low error rate can mean the model learned the dataset rather than the speech.

Hugging FaceAugust 22verified