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About AssemblyAI
AIWatch Data: AssemblyAI's reported uptime is 100.00%. Based on AIWatch data from the last 30 days, it experienced 2 incidents with an average recovery time of 11 minutes.
AssemblyAI provides production-grade speech-to-text APIs with features like speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. It is widely used for meeting transcription, podcast indexing, and call center analytics.
AIWatch Insight: AssemblyAI publishes per-component status (Async Transcription, Real-time Transcription, LeMUR). AIWatch tracks the API endpoint as a whole. Async transcription incidents are more common than real-time outages but generally resolve quickly.
When AssemblyAI is down, applications submitting transcription jobs (async or real-time) will fail. Meeting recorders, captioning services, and call analytics pipelines will queue or drop work.
This page provides real-time status, uptime history, and recent incident details — updated every 5 minutes by AIWatch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is AssemblyAI down right now?
Check the live status indicator at the top of this page. AIWatch monitors AssemblyAI every 5 minutes and shows real-time operational status.
Why is AssemblyAI transcription failing?
AssemblyAI may be experiencing async or real-time API issues. Check this page for active incidents and the official status page for component-level detail.
What are alternatives to AssemblyAI?
Based on current AIWatch data, OpenAI API (Score: 76) is the most reliable alternative right now. For speech-to-text, Deepgram and ElevenLabs (via STT features) are alternatives. AIWatch shows current availability for each speech service.
How do I check AssemblyAI status?
You can check AssemblyAI status on this page, on the official AssemblyAI status page at status.assemblyai.com, or on the AIWatch dashboard at ai-watch.dev.
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