Gladia is an advanced audio transcription and intelligence platform delivered via a unified API that supports both asynchronous (pre-recorded) and real-time streaming transcription, enabling developers to convert speech to text in over 100 languages with features like word-level timestamps, language detection, code-switching, speaker diarization, translation, summarization, custom vocabulary, and entity extraction. Its real-time engine achieves latencies under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy, and it offers “partials” (intermediate transcripts) to improve responsiveness in live settings. The platform’s asynchronous API is powered by a proprietary Whisper-Zero model optimized for enterprise audio, and it lets clients apply add-ons such as enhanced punctuation, name consistency, custom metadata tagging, and export to subtitle formats (SRT, VTT).