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Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the maker of Pipecat. The BSD-2 framework stays open and gets a promised foundation, but Daily's WebRTC, telephony and Pipecat Cloud contracts change owner.
October 31, 2026 · 8 min read
Qwen-Audio 3.1 bills speech recognition in tokens: at 25 tokens per audio second it works out to about $0.02 an hour in Singapore, against $0.15-$0.26 at AssemblyAI and Deepgram. The catches are a five-minute request cap, per-channel billing and a residency decision.
September 27, 2026 · 10 min read
AssemblyAI is the default for post-call transcription and Deepgram for live voice agents. Self-hosting pays past roughly 2-6M call minutes a month with a two-engineer team — and then the model to run is NVIDIA Parakeet, not Whisper.
September 22, 2026 · 20 min read