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Increase in turnaround times for pre-recorded audio transcription

Degraded Lasted 14m · started · AssemblyAI's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Asynchronous API
Down Index
26of 100

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Updates from AssemblyAI 2

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating an issue that is causing a small increase in turnaround times for STT services for pre-recorded audio for some requests. Traffic as a whole is still completing within the range of normal turnaround times. We will provide additional updates as we learn more.

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  2. resolved

    Aside from a small window of about five minutes around 12:10pm PT where turnaround times were slightly higher than usual, we have continued to see turnaround times within the expected ranges so we are now closing this issue.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-9f129e028f

Is AssemblyAI still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-09-22 19:49 UTC. For AssemblyAI's live state, see https://down.guide/assemblyai.

How long did it last?

14m, from 2025-09-22 19:34 UTC to 2025-09-22 19:49 UTC, by the times AssemblyAI posted.

What was affected?

AssemblyAI named Asynchronous API.

What caused it?

AssemblyAI hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

AssemblyAI's official status page, https://status.assemblyai.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.