Speechmatics

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One quickstart covers key creation, package installation, sample audio, AsyncClient submission, completion waiting, and transcript printing. The Batch quickstart gives four numbered steps, create a portal API key, pip install speechmatics-batch, download example.wav, run a script whose single client.transcribe call submits, waits, and returns result.transcript_text, with the expected console output printed for comparison. The quickstart gives a clean 4-step path: create an API key, install the library, grab a sample file, and run the provided code.

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One limits page states 10 new jobs per second, 50 status requests per second, 20,000 concurrent jobs, under 1 GB, and seven days. One page states all four values with matching scopes, 10 new jobs per second on POST, 50 job status requests per second on GET, a 20,000 concurrent-job backstop, a 1 GB cap on files sent in the /jobs POST body with fetch-URL as the documented path for larger files, and 7-day retention, and no other page contradicts them. All five limits (POST rate, GET rate, concurrency ceiling, file size, retention) are documented on a single page with consistent values and clear scopes.

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The docs prescribe a one-second delay for rate limits but do not explain retries or recovery from the 20,000-job ceiling. The docs identify the two distinct 429 conditions but never document a Retry-After header, a backoff schedule, a retry ceiling, or any remedy specific to HTTP 429 - Max concurrent running jobs exceeded, and the blanket one-second-delay advice does not reconcile with the published 50 GET requests per second allowance. The docs explain what causes 429s and list the recommended rate ceilings, but give no recovery guidance: no Retry-After header, no backoff strategy, and no retry procedure for either rate-limit or concurrency 429s.

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The page covers configuration, authentication, allowlists, 2xx acknowledgement, ordering, and failures, but gives no retry timeout value. Egress IP allowlists per region, auth_headers, the id and status query parameters, the Speechmatics-API/2.0 user agent, parallel callback ordering, and the errors array on GET /jobs/$JOBID are all documented, but the retry policy is described only as an unquantified "set timeout threshold" with no retry count, interval, or total budget, and there is no request signature to authenticate the sender beyond IP allowlisting. Configuration, egress IP allowlisting, retry semantics, parallel ordering, and failure diagnostics via the errors element are all documented. The timeout threshold value is unspecified but the retry mechanism is clear.

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The example matches AsyncClient, but the endpoint table omits its default hostname; a guessed client.py source URL returned 404. The quickstart snippet installs and runs exactly as asked and its TranscriptionConfig fields map cleanly onto the API transcription_config, but the docs contain no reference page for the SDK, the SDKs page is a set of cards linking out to GitHub, and the AsyncClient url= argument that would target us1 or au1 appears only inside the on-prem batch persistent worker page as url="address.of.container:PORT/v2". The quickstart shows the correct pip command and a working example using speechmatics.batch.AsyncClient with transcribe(), which matches the published SDK's API.