CallMissed Blog
Insights on AI communication, voice agents, WhatsApp automation, and the future of customer engagement.
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ComparisonMay 8, 2026
Speech-to-Text in 2026: Whisper, Deepgram Nova, Saaras V3, and the Real-Time Race
For most of 2024 and 2025, the speech-to-text question was simple: "Whisper, or one of the latency-tuned commercial APIs?" In 2026 the picture is more interesting. The leading models now diverge sharply by use case — real-time vs. batch, English vs. multilingual, accent-tolerant vs. literal — and pi…
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ReviewMay 8, 2026
Sarvam Saaras V3: Why India's STT Beats Global Models
For most of the last decade, building voice products in Indian languages meant accepting that STT accuracy would be 30–50% worse than what English-language users took for granted. Code-mixing, accent variation, and 22 official languages with very different scripts conspired against the global ASR ve…