# Gemini 3.5 Transcribe launch evaluation: Voice Benchmark Profile

> Google’s August 26, 2026 launch post reports word error rates on an independent transcription leaderboard and FLEURS for pre-recorded and streaming transcription, plus a latency gain over Chirp 3.

- Scope: independent-leaderboard WER (non-streaming and streaming), FLEURS multilingual WER, and time-to-final-transcript versus Chirp 3
- Measurement lanes: Voice experience, Latency
- Primary metric: Word error rate (lower is better)
- Available evidence: Exact figures published in the official launch post
- Owner: Google
- Source snapshots refreshed: 2026-09-11

## Interpretation limit

These are provider-reported launch results against Google’s own prior model; the post gives no per-language breakdown or competitor rows.

## Primary sources

- [Owner page](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/)

Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/voice-benchmarks/gemini-3-5-transcribe-launch-evaluation