Speech-to-text released 2026-09-18; ~2× accuracy vs 1.0 at same price; batch $0.10/hr, streaming $0.20/hr (diarization/timestamps/key terms included); 1.0 to be deprecated in coming weeks.
Availability
xAI Speech-to-Text API (grok-voice-transcribe-2.0; REST / WebSocket; becoming default)