Release Notes

Follow new updates and improvements to Speechmatics.

February 12th, 2026

Batch SaaS

Improvements

  • Updated models for Swedish (sv) with improved transcription accuracy (reduction in incorrect insertions)

Fixes

  • “x-ray” and “x-rays” are now always hyphenated in English (en) transcription output

Updated Orchestrator Version: 2026.02.06+686b83b434+15.0.0

February 5th, 2026

Real-Time Kubernetes

Updates

Adds support for using Realtime components without a ClusterRole, disabling cluster-wide access for the SessionGroups controller. Refer to the sm-realtime Helm chart README.md for configuration details.

This Helm chart version uses Realtime container version 14.13.0. For more information, see the 14.13.0 container release notes.

Security

  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is available for download from the corresponding release page in our Support Portal.

  • libgstreamer (CVE-2025-3887): This component has been manually patched to address CVE-2025-3887. Note: Security scanners may still flag this component as vulnerable because the base version string remains unchanged

  • Redis versioning: This release by default uses Redis version 8.2.1 with publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities (CVEs) that have been assessed to not impact this product. Users who require additional security controls or remediation for these CVEs can choose to deploy a different Redis version which remediates issues of concern.

Non-Applicable CVEs

The following vulnerabilities (including those reported for the third-party package Redis version) were reviewed and determined to have no security impact on this release due to specific configurations or the use of closed, trusted environments:

Component

Identified CVEs

redis

CVE-2025-49844, CVE-2025-46817, CVE-2025-46818, CVE-2025-46819, CVE-2025-62507

stdlib

CVE-2025-58183, CVE-2025-61726, CVE-2025-61728, CVE-2025-61729

protobuf

CVE-2026-0994

python-multipart

CVE-2026-24486

sentencepiece

CVE-2026-1260

jaraco.context

CVE-2026-23949

wheel

CVE-2026-24049

zipp

CVE-2024-5569

General Libs

libc (CVE-2025-4802, CVE-2026-0861), libpam (CVE-2025-6020), libssl3 (CVE-2025-15467, CVE-2025-69419, CVE-2025-69421)zlib (CVE-2023-45853), gpgv(CVE-2025-68973, CVE-2026-24882)

Others

perl (CVE-2023-31484)

February 3rd, 2026

Batch SaaS

Improvements

Significantly faster processing for Arabic, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish audio files up to 12 minutes in duration - released to all endpoints

January 26th, 2026

Batch Container

Real-Time Container

GPU Transcription Inference Container

GPU Translation Inference Container

Version 14.13.0 is now available for Batch Container, Real-Time Container, GPU Transcription Inference Container and GPU Translation Inference Container.

New

GPU

Standard and Enhanced operating point

New Multilingual transcription language pack Mandarin Malay Tamil English (cmn_en_ms_ta) available now. Refer to the documentation for more details.

Enhanced operating point

New medical domain-specific models for Danish, Norwegian, Swedish giving the highest accuracy for healthcare use cases. Refer to the documentation for more details.

Domain

Language

Relative Improvement

Medical

Danish

46%

Medical

Norwegian

42%

Medical

Swedish

60%

Improvements

GPU

Enhanced operating point

New models for Bilingual Malay English, Bilingual Tamil English, Danish, Finnish, Maltese, Norwegian, Swedish with improved transcription accuracy

Domain

Language

Relative Improvement

General

Bilingual Malay English

1.2%

General

Bilingual Tamil English

1.7%

General

Danish

20.5%

General

Finnish

4.8%

General

Maltese

5.8%

General

Norwegian

9.3%

General

Swedish

9.0%

Standard operating point

New models for Bilingual Malay English, Bilingual Tamil English, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish with improved transcription accuracy

Domain

Language

Relative Improvement

General

Bilingual Malay English

2.8%

General

Bilingual Tamil English

2.4%

General

Danish

7.6%

General

Finnish

14.3%

General

Norwegian

4.8%

General

Swedish

1.9%

CPU

Enhanced operating point

New models for Danish, Finnish, Galician, Norwegian, Swedish with improved transcription accuracy

Domain

Language

Relative Improvement

General

Danish

24.9%

General

Finnish

51.2%

General

Galician

5.2%

General

Norwegian

12.0%

General

Swedish

7.6%

Standard operating point

New models for Danish, Finnish, Galician, Maltese, Norwegian, Swedish with improved transcription accuracy

Domain

Language

Relative Improvement

General

Danish

1.1%

General

Finnish

35.3%

General

Galician

1.9%

General

Maltese

3.1%

General

Norwegian

4.2%

General

Swedish

3.0%

Fixes

  • Fix for number formatting in Malay & English bilingual (en_ms) and Tamil & English bilingual (en_ta) language packs

    • Resolves the following tickets: 30055

  • Fix for incorrect casing in Japanese (ja) transcription output

    • Resolves the following ticket: 28276

Security fixes

Vulnerability Management

  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is available for download from the corresponding release page in our Support Portal.

  • libgstreamer (CVE-2025-3887): This component has been manually patched to address CVE-2025-3887. Note: Security scanners may still flag this component as vulnerable because the base version string remains unchanged

Non-Applicable CVEs

The following vulnerabilities were reviewed and determined to have no security impact for this release.

Component

Identified CVEs

protobuf

CVE-2026-0994

sentencepiece

CVE-2026-1260

jaraco.context

CVE-2026-23949

wheel

CVE-2026-24049

January 21st, 2026

Batch SaaS

Real-Time SaaS

Fixes

  • Fix for number formatting in Mandarin Malay Tamil & English multilingual (cmn_en_ms_ta), Malay & English bilingual (en_ms) and Tamil & English bilingual (en_ta) language packs.

    • Resolves the following tickets: 30452, 30055

  • Fix for incorrect casing in Japanese (ja) transcription output.

    • Resolves the following ticket: 28276

Updated Orchestrator Version: 2026.01.15+504a3b4d7c+14.13.0

January 15th, 2026

Real-Time SaaS

Improvements

  • Medical domain-specific models (Enhanced Operating Point) for Swedish (sv) giving the highest accuracy for healthcare use cases. Refer to the documentation for more details.

    • Relative accuracy improvements (medical domain): 60%

  • New models for Swedish (sv) with improved transcription accuracy

    • Relative accuracy improvements (general domain): Enhanced Operating Point - 9.3%; Standard Operating Point - 1.8%

  • New models for Norwegian (no) with improved transcription accuracy for general and medical domains

    • Relative accuracy improvements (general domain): Enhanced Operating Point - 6.8%; Standard Operating Point - 4.7%

    • Relative accuracy improvements (medical domain, Enhanced Operating Point): 11%

  • New models for Finnish (fi) with improved transcription accuracy for general and medical domains

    • Relative accuracy improvements (general domain): Enhanced Operating Point - 4.9%; Standard Operating Point - 14.1%

    • Relative accuracy improvements (medical domain, Enhanced Operating Point): 10.4%

Updates

  • Updated models for Galician (gl) and Maltese (mt) for Enhanced Operating Point

  • Custom Dictionary now only allows entries with words up to 4000 characters. Any entries exceeding this limit will be automatically removed before transcription begins. Refer to documentation here for details.

Updated Orchestrator Version: 2026.01.09+e449221ca0+14.12.0

January 14th, 2026

Batch SaaS

Improvements

  • Medical domain-specific models (Enhanced Operating Point) for Swedish (sv) giving the highest accuracy for healthcare use cases. Refer to the documentation for more details.

    • Relative accuracy improvements (medical domain): 60%

  • New models for Swedish (sv) with improved transcription accuracy

    • Relative accuracy improvements (general domain): Enhanced Operating Point - 9.3%; Standard Operating Point - 1.8%

  • New models for Norwegian (no) with improved transcription accuracy for general and medical domains

    • Relative accuracy improvements (general domain): Enhanced Operating Point - 6.8%; Standard Operating Point - 4.7%

    • Relative accuracy improvements (medical domain, Enhanced Operating Point): 11%

  • New models for Finnish (fi) with improved transcription accuracy for general and medical domains

    • Relative accuracy improvements (general domain): Enhanced Operating Point - 4.9%; Standard Operating Point - 14.1%

    • Relative accuracy improvements (medical domain, Enhanced Operating Point): 10.4%

Updates

  • Updated models for Galician (gl) and Maltese (mt) for Enhanced Operating Point

  • Custom Dictionary now only allows entries with words up to 4000 characters. Any entries exceeding this limit will be automatically removed before transcription begins. Refer to documentation here for details.

Updated Orchestrator Version: 2026.01.09+e449221ca0+14.12.0

January 8th, 2026

Real-Time Kubernetes

New

Introducing the first release of Helm charts for deploying and managing real-time applications on Kubernetes. Please refer to the documentation for deployment guides.

Security Considerations

Vulnerability Management

  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is available for download from the corresponding release page in our Support Portal.

  • libgstreamer (CVE-2025-3887): This component has been manually patched to address CVE-2025-3887. Note: Security scanners may still flag this component as vulnerable because the base version string remains unchanged

  • Redis Versioning: This release by default uses Redis version 8.2.1 with publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities (CVEs). Users who require additional security controls or remediation for these CVEs can choose to deploy a different Redis version which remediates issues of concern.

Non-Applicable CVEs

The following vulnerabilities (including those reported for the third-party package Redis version) were reviewed and determined to have no security impact on this release due to specific configurations or the use of closed, trusted environments:

Component

Identified CVEs

Redis

CVE-2025-49844, CVE-2025-46817, CVE-2025-46818, CVE-2025-46819, CVE-2025-62507

stdlib

CVE-2025-58183, CVE-2025-58186, CVE-2025-61729

General Libs

aiohttp (CVE-2025-69223), libc (CVE-2025-4802), libpam (CVE-2025-6020), zlib (CVE-2023-45853), gpgv(CVE-2025-68973)

Other

perl (CVE-2023-31484)

December 24th, 2025

Batch SaaS

Fixes

Fix for an issue where Speaker identification failed to label speakers in some jobs

  • Resolves the following ticket: 30188

December 16th, 2025

Real-Time SaaS

New

Faster finals with force end of utterance – Enables the client to force finalise transcription at the end of speech to produce faster finals (~200ms), ideal when using external VAD or turn detection models for voice agents. Refer to documentation here for more details.