Speech to text

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Tools

Circleback now has a free plan, and full API and MCP access starts at 15 dollars

The meeting note-taker replaced its lineup with four tiers: Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise. The free one records and transcribes without a cap on the number of meetings and keeps 30 days of history, and the release note says it is a plan rather than a trial. What it withholds is full access to the API, the Model Context Protocol server and the command-line tool. Those begin at $15 per user per month, which is where the line now runs for anyone feeding transcripts into an agent.

CirclebackSeptember 1verified

Agents

Copilot in VS Code now reports token usage per model and installs portable agent plugins

GitHub published its monthly roundup for Copilot in Visual Studio Code on August 31, 2026, covering releases 1.132 through 1.135. Most of the change is in the Agents window: chats line up side by side, one session opens from more than one window, and plugins written to the Agent Plugins 1.0 standard install outside VS Code as well. The response footer also starts reporting how many tokens each model spent in a turn.

GitHubSeptember 1verified

Models

Google's new transcription model cleans up your speech, which is the feature and the risk

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe removes filler words, resolves self-corrections and formats the text as it goes. Google reports 4.0% word error rate streaming and 2.6% on recordings, both measured by Artificial Analysis rather than by Google itself.

Google DeepMindAugust 26verified