Is Chariot-1-ASR Realtime state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 22, 2026; no independent results yet.
Chariot's streaming speech-recognition model for Indian languages. It transcribes speech as it is spoken in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia and Indian English. It was post-trained from Chariot-1, the speech foundation model Chariot is building. Live on the Chariot API over a streaming WebSocket. Not an LLM.
The details so far
- Lab
- Chariot
- Announced
- Oct 22, 2026
- API
- Live · chariot-1-asr-realtime
- Open weights
- Unknown
- Lab
- Chariot, India
- Task
- Streaming speech recognition (speech to text)
- Base
- Post-trained from Chariot-1, Chariot's speech foundation model (lab post)
- Languages
- 10 Indian languages plus Indian English; automatic language detection or a language hint
- Modes
- Balanced (text about 0.5 s behind speech) and high accuracy (about 2.4 s)
- API price
- 1.5 Chariot credits per second of audio (Chariot docs)
- Weights
- Not stated
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: lowest word error rate in all 10 Indian languages tested (79 public test sets), against every streaming API and batch model Chariot tested.
Lab claim: 26% fewer errors than Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe averaged over the 10 languages, and 39% fewer than OpenAI gpt-transcribe on real Hindi phone calls.
Sources
LABIntroducing Chariot-1-ASR Realtime (Chariot)chariot.in/news/introducing-chariot-1-asr-realtime/ · Oct 22, 2026LABChariot announcement on Xx.com/Chariot_IN/status/2113283300878106881 · Oct 22, 2026LABChariot speech-to-text API docsdocs.chariot.in/guides/speech-to-text/overview · Oct 22, 2026Tracking continues until an independent board lists it.