# Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

> Speech-to-text. Google's dedicated file transcription model — 85+ languages, up to 1 hour per request. OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/transcriptions.

Human version: https://kymaapi.com/models/gemini-3.5-transcribe
Live JSON: `GET https://kymaapi.com/v1/models` (no auth required)

## Facts

- **Model ID**: `gemini-3.5-transcribe`: pass this as `model` in the request body
- **Creator**: Google
- **Released**: 2026-08-26
- **Price**: $0.00675 / minute

## Call it

```bash
curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KYMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "gemini-3.5-transcribe", "prompt": "..."}'
```

## Positioning

Google's dedicated file speech-to-text model. Pin `gemini-3.5-transcribe` on POST /v1/audio/transcriptions when you want Google file STT; the `transcribe` alias still points at Whisper.

## About

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a speech-to-text model for recorded audio, not a chat model and not a live streaming session. On Kyma it is served through the same OpenAI-compatible transcription endpoint as the other STT SKUs: multipart `file` or JSON `audio_url`, response `{ text, language?, duration? }`.

It accepts up to about an hour of audio per request. Billing is per minute of audio (one-minute minimum, rounded up), not per token. The `transcribe` alias is unchanged and still resolves to whisper-v3-turbo; this SKU is opt-in by id.

This is file transcription only. It does not replace audio-scene understanding (`audio-understand`) and it is not the live streaming companion.

## Use cases

- **Meeting and call transcripts**, Turn recorded meetings and call logs into plain text for search and notes.
- **Multilingual dictation**, Transcribe speech across many languages without swapping SKUs.
- **Captions from a file**, Produce a transcript from an uploaded clip, then format it client-side.
- **Voice-agent offline pass**, Batch-transcribe recorded user audio before a later language-model step.

## Not ideal for

Do not use this for live bidirectional speech or for audio-scene questions (tone, music, SFX). Those are different endpoints. Timestamped SRT/VTT is best on whisper-v3-turbo.

## Pick something else when

- You want the default cheap and fast alias → `whisper-v3-turbo`
- You need premium conversational accuracy and opted into the quality alias → `gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15`

## See also

- All models: https://kymaapi.com/models.md
- Pricing: https://kymaapi.com/pricing.md
- Other models by Google: https://kymaapi.com/models?q=Google