Oak 1
Oak 1 transcribes multilingual clinical conversations. Its October 2026 release focused on retaining drug names, diagnoses, procedures and other medical terms across language changes.
Medical coverage has a defined scope
Oak transcribes the full supported language range. Additional medical terminology tuning is documented for Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish. Recognition outside that list does not carry the same medical-tuning claim.Speechmatics documentation: Languages and medical coverage
The launch evaluation measured medical term recall across 19 test sets in 11 languages. It reported an average of 91%. This was the provider’s clinical-term evaluation, not a general claim that every transcript is 91% correct.Speechmatics: Oak multilingual medical speech recognition
Practical guidance. Medical term recall helps reveal a failure that an overall word score can hide: a transcript may be mostly correct while missing a drug name. Evaluate those terms separately from ordinary conversation.Speechmatics: Oak multilingual medical speech recognition
Oak and the earlier medical range
The Realtime release reports improved medical keyword recognition over Melia 1 with the same base accuracy. It does not disclose a parameter count or establish a particular fine-tuning ancestry.Speechmatics release notes: Oak 1 Realtime, 27 October 2026
Specifications & access
| Detail | Value and conditions |
|---|---|
| Launch date | |
| Access | API, Provider product |
| Model identifiers | oak-1 |
| Access | Cloud, private cloud and on-premises deploymentsSpeechmatics: Oak multilingual medical speech recognition |
| Realtime availability | Added 27 October 2026; model: oak-1Speechmatics release notes: Oak 1 Realtime, 27 October 2026 |
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