# Artificial Analysis places StepAudio 3 ASR at 88x real-time transcription

Artificial Analysis reports a transcription speed factor of 88x real time for StepAudio 3 ASR, behind three faster systems, near ElevenLabs Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, and ahead of Fun-Realtime-ASR-preview.

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Source: Artificial Analysis · Published 9/22/2026, 12:51:56

Artificial Analysis reports that StepAudio 3 ASR transcribes at a speed factor of 88x real time. It places that result behind MAI-Transcribe-2 at 374x, Smallest AI Pulse Pro at 285x and Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 at 154x.

In the same comparison, StepAudio 3 ASR is roughly level with ElevenLabs Scribe v2 at 84x and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe at 91x, and ahead of Fun-Realtime-ASR-preview at 20x.

Tags: StepAudio 3 ASR, Speech to text, Benchmarks, Artificial Analysis

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