Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ | The Verge
Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ | The Verge
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Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
We got a new Gemini Audio model while we’re still waiting for the overdu
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Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
We got a new Gemini Audio model while we’re still waiting for the overdue Gemini 3.5 Pro launch.
We got a new Gemini Audio model while we’re still waiting for the overdue Gemini 3.5 Pro launch.
Jess Weatherbed
Aug 26, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC
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Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of
3.5 Live Translate
, and comes as we’re still waiting for Google to release the
Gemini 3.5 Pro
model that it
promised to roll out in June
.
Google says that 3.5 Transcribe “represents a major advancement from our previous transcription model, Chirp 3,” especially regarding multilingual performance and wording error rates. The transcription model allows users to “edit naturally with just your voice,” according to Google, and can automatically format text and remove filler words like “um” and “uh.”
Users can provide a customized vocabulary to the model, allowing 3.5 Transcribe to automatically adapt transcription to unique spelling requirements and specialized jargon to prevent those words from being edited manually. It can also attribute speech for up to three speakers in pre-recorded audio, alongside providing word-level timestamps.
Alongside 3.5 Transcribe, Google also said that 3.5 Live and 3.5 Live Experimental updates will be coming to Gemini Audio today that build on the existing speech recognition tech powering
Gemini’s voice chat mode
. After we published this story, Google then reached out to say these additional models arent being launched yet, and didn’t provide a new launch date.