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Rime Speech-to-Text

API service

by Rime

Streaming and whole-file speech-to-text API for voice agents that transcribes English or Spanish speech into partial and final transcripts, in written or word-for-word mode with custom terms, through an SDK, WebSocket or gRPC, in the cloud, a VPC or on-premises.

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What it does

• Speech to text

Sources

Pricing

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

Pay-as-you-go rate card: Rime STT "$0.002 / min from Nov 20", free until November 19; Enterprise "Volume rates from Nov 20" on an annual commitment. The launch-period free use is a promotion, so no free model is claimed.

Description

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

"Rime speech-to-text turns English or Spanish speech into text. It returns partial transcripts while the person speaks." Settings (word-for-word or written mode, custom terms) are on the same page; the pricing page (https://www.rime.ai/pricing) lists custom vocabulary of up to 1,024 characters per request.

What it does

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

"Rime speech-to-text turns speech into text for voice agents."

Sold within

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

Sold on its own: a Pay as you go plan with the line "Metered by the minute, billed monthly to your card" and its own rate row for Rime STT; no parent product is named.

Name

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

Pricing page rate-card row "Rime STT" ("$0.002 / min from Nov 20"); the launch post and docs call it Rime Speech-to-Text.

URL

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

Rime's documentation overview of its speech-to-text service: "Rime speech-to-text turns English or Spanish speech into text." It is announced on the vendor's launch post https://www.rime.ai/resources/rime-announces-stt, carried as a banner on every rime.ai page (the banner text reads Rime speech-to-text is here, https://www.rime.ai/) and as its own column and rate on https://www.rime.ai/pricing.

Deployment

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

In the speech-to-text comparison the page lists "Same deployment as Rime TTS" with a tick, under "Deploy on-prem, VPC, or cloud" (cloud API, VPC or on-premises).

Interfaces

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

Three ways to connect in the docs table: "Rime SDK (recommended)" (Python, Node.js, Go or Rust), "WebSocket API" and "gRPC API".

Modalities

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

Audio in, text out: the service takes "Headerless PCM16 at 16 kHz, mono" audio (or one WAV file) and "returns partial transcripts while the person speaks" and then a final transcript.

Intended for

Official documentation · 21 Oct 2026

Backend developers building voice agents: the page tells the reader to "Use the Rime SDK if your backend is in a language that the SDK supports."

Also from Rime

• Mist / Coda API service

  Text-to-speech voice models sold by API, or self-hosted, to teams building enterprise voice agents; priced per character.

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