Gladia

What is Gladia?

Gladia is a Speech-to-Text API that helps businesses turn audio into useful information by transcribing and translating it. It is built on the Whisper ASR framework and is designed to be fast, accurate, and scalable. It can be customized for different industries and is built with data security and privacy compliance in mind.

Gladia offers fast transcription, improved accuracy, and support for 99 languages, with optional audio intelligence add-ons. The company was founded on the observation that businesses were not making full use of the audio data they collected, and its mission is to help them build systems that manage audio, text, and visual information together in real time.

Who created Gladia?

Gladia was founded by Jean-Louis Quéguiner, previously VP of Data, AI & Quantum Computing at OVHcloud. He holds a Master’s Degree in Symbolic AI and set out to make AI simpler for developers. He built a chatbot that sorted, classified, and combined AI applications into a single store, classifying over 13,000 models in under 4.5 years. The company’s mission grew from there, focusing on helping businesses make better use of their audio data.

What is Gladia used for?

• Virtual meetings: Transcribe online discussions.
• Work collaboration: Keep track of team conversations and decisions.
• Media content: Create transcripts for videos, podcasts, and more.
• Call centers: Analyze customer calls for insights and quality control.

Who is Gladia for?

Gladia suits developers who need reliable speech-to-text capabilities, teams involved in virtual meetings and collaboration, media creators, call centers, communications professionals, and businesses of all sizes.

How to use Gladia?

1. Sign up and get your API key: Create an account on the Gladia platform to receive your API key.
2. Choose your hosting option: Select cloud hosting, on-premise hosting, or an air-gapped solution.
3. Integrate the API: Use the provided code samples and customize the API call with details such as the audio URL and your API key.
4. Transcribe your audio: Use the API for transcription, with features like real-time transcription, speaker identification (diarization), and code-switching across languages within the same audio.
5. Translate content: Translate across 99 languages with automatic language detection.
6. Explore audio intelligence add-ons: Extend transcription results with additional audio intelligence features.

Pricing

Gladia offers a Free tier with up to 5 hours of transcription. Plans can be switched up or down as needed, and volume discounts are available for large amounts of audio.