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Meridian Voice: a speech API in public preview

Meridian Models opens a speech recognition and synthesis API to developers in preview, with usage limits during the preview period.

Heat at demo clock
19.7
Independent sources
2
Reports
2
First seen
Last report
In briefings
Not in a briefing yet

Timeline and provenance

Every report on this event, oldest first. All times UTC.

  1. First report

    Meridian Voice: a speech API in public preview

    Meridian Models Newsroom Official, tier 1

    Meridian Models opens a speech recognition and synthesis API to developers in preview, with usage limits during the preview period.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

  2. Coverage

    Meridian Models opens speech API preview to developers

    Signal Wire Press, tier 2

    The preview covers recognition and synthesis; pricing will be announced when it leaves preview, the company said.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

How the heat adds up

10 × 0.5age / 24 h per independent source, newest report only, within 48 h.

At the demo clock, 12 Mar, 09:00 UTC.
SourceReportAgeWeightPointsWhy
Meridian Models Newsroom12 Mar, 08:1050 min0.9769.76counted
Signal Wire12 Mar, 08:4020 min0.9909.90counted
Total19.72 sources counted

6 hours earlier, at 12 Mar, 03:00 UTC, the heat was 0.0, so the trend is new (+19.7). How trends are labelled

Why these reports are one event

Joined when similarity reaches 0.35: 0.6 × shared entities + 0.4 × shared wording, and at least one shared entity.

ReportDecisionEvidence
Meridian Models Newsroom, 12 Mar, 08:10newStarted this event: no open event scored above the threshold. Closest other event: ReasonBench v2: test items found in public training data; scores under review at 0.174.
Signal Wire, 12 Mar, 08:40joinedScore 0.780 against the Meridian Models Newsroom report: entities 1.00, wording 0.45. Shared: Meridian Models, Meridian Voice. Closest other event: ReasonBench v2: test items found in public training data; scores under review at 0.175.

Named in this event

Meridian Models, Meridian Voice