Soniox
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Jun 25, 2026first mention
Aug 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
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“Soniox rtt v5”
founder of ottex.aion “Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb”
“Never any mention of Soniox and they are on the Pareto frontier”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Soniox also wins the independent benchmarks done by Daily, the company behind Pipecat.”
former Soniox employeeon “Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent fro…”
Threads where it came up
- Gemini-3.5-Transcribe 2 mentions
- Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb 1 mention
- Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice 1 mention
- Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch 1 mention
- Why Audio Is the One Area Small Labs Are Winning 1 mention
- Soniox: Real-time transcription in 60 languages 1 mention
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All comments 6
“But yes, Soniox is much cheaper.”
“Soniox STT v5 is definitely the best”
“Soniox rtt v5”
“the transcriber API I use (Soniox) actually supports more than 60 languages”
“Never any mention of Soniox and they are on the Pareto frontier”
“Also see how it compares to other providers:”