AssemblyAI: Realtime ASR Processing Slowdown
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- resolved
We have continued to see good results and are now marking this issue as resolved. We suspect that only a small number of transcripts were affected as P50 and P90 response times were within reasonable thresholds throughout, with only P99 response times being affected initially.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by AssemblyAI, started 2025-05-16 09:04 UTC, resolved after 1.3 h, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Realtime ASR Processing Slowdown
- Vendor
- AssemblyAI
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/assemblyai/incidents/hc4nbwb1vs06
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