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Speech Transcription: Accuracy vs. Price

xAIX · Sep 18, 2026 · official

Speech Transcription: Accuracy vs. Price

xAI's scatter plot drew 9.8M views on X: 75x its median post and #12 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

Speech transcription accuracy vs price comparison

XData Scatter plot Grok Voice All xAI modelsGrok Voice Transcribe 2.0Muse Voice TranscribeGPT Live TranscribeUniversal-3.5 Realtime ProScribe v2 RealtimeGemini 3.5 Transcribe LiveGrok Voice Transcribe 1.0Chirp 3 Real-time

xAI: Speech Transcription: Accuracy vs. Price — Published by xAI on X, Sep 18, 2026. Source: x.com

69/ 100

ViralChart score

Wide but thin

More views than the median post but a lower engagement rate: many saw it, few acted. Common for big accounts.

#236 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #4 of 23 xAI posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

The post sits in the Wide but thin quadrant, at #236 of 1,162 AI chart posts by score.

Its 9.8M views sit 75x above xAI's 131K median, the #4 of 23 xAI posts by views.

Engagement lands at 0.066%, the 1st percentile among AI chart posts and #1,149 of 1,162.

The scatter plot's 9.8M views run 438x the 22.4K median for the 187 chart posts of this type.

75xxAI's median post

9.8M views, where xAI's typical post gets 130.6K.

438xthe median scatter plot post

Across 187 scatter plot posts we hold, the median gets 22.4K views.

bottom 1%engagement rate

0.07% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

bottom 5%save rate

0.009% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 13, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 23 from xAI.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #236 of 1,162

Views	9.8M	#12	top 1%
Likes	5.6K	#54	top 5%
Engagement rate	0.07%	#1,149	bottom 1%
Save rate	0.009%	#1,100	bottom 5%

Among 23 xAI posts

Score #4 of 23

Views	9.8M	#4	top 15%
Likes	5.6K	#2	top 7%
Engagement rate	0.07%	#21	bottom 11%
Save rate	0.009%	#19	bottom 20%

Growth

Our reads cover 21 hours

Views9.8M

Age at our read25 days

Views per day of life392.9Kviews divided by days since it was posted

Gained between our reads+1.1Kviews over 21 hours, about 1.2K a day now

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

xAI's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Sep 18, 2026 · Lead story

xAI posts speech transcription accuracy vs price scatter plot

The scatter plot drew 9.8M views against a 39.9K median among AI chart posts, with engagement at 0.066%.

What happened

xAI published a scatter plot on speech transcription accuracy vs price on September 18, 2026, with 11 models shown. That day the account posted 2 times, including Speech Recognition Error Rates by Category at 72.8K views.

The numbers

The post reached 9.8M views, #12 of 1,162 AI chart posts by views and #4 of 23 xAI posts. Its score ranks #236 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

A scatter plot with 11 models drew 9.8M views, 438x the 22.4K median for the 187 chart posts of this type, while its 0.066% engagement rate sat below the 0.78% median for the type.

What it means

For xAI, 9.8M views is 75x its own 131K median, yet the 0.066% engagement rate is below the 0.81% median for this account's posts.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 13, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Updates: what xAI posted next

Data and API

11 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 50%

Group	Value	Read
GPT Live Transcribe	4 %	printed
Chirp 3 Streaming	4.8 %	printed
Azure STT Real-time	5.5 %	printed
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live	4 %	printed
Universal-3.5 Realtime Pro	3.8 %	printed
Scribe v2 Realtime	3.8 %	printed
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0	2 %	printed
Muse Voice Transcribe	3.8 %	printed
Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0	4 %	printed
Nova-3 Realtime	7 %	printed
Flux	7.5 %	printed

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