TwinMind Ear-3: The Quiet New Benchmark in Speech-to-Text Accuracy, Speaker Diarization, Language Breadth and Price

“ What just changed in speech recognition? A four-year-old start-up pushed word-error-rate to 5.26 %, speaker diarization error to 3.8 %, added 140+ languages and priced the whole thing at 23 ¢ per hour—while keeping an API that looks like any other REST endpoint. What this article answers • How far did the key metrics actually move and why should product teams care? • What engineering trade-offs allow the low price without sacrificing quality? • Where will the cloud-only constraint block rollout? • How can developers or end-users ship their first file in under ten minutes? • Where did the …