AssemblyAI incident

Increased turnaround times for Async Universal-3 model

Minor Resolved Upstream link ↗

Started

September 28, 2026 at 05:27 PM UTC

Duration

30 min

Resolved

September 28, 2026 at 05:58 PM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. Identified

    We are currently experiencing issues that are resulting in longer-than-usual processing times for Async STT requests using our Universal-3 models. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and will provide further updates as soon as we can.

  2. Identified

    We are still working to fully resolve the issue, but we are seeing improvement in turnaround times for the Universal-3 Pro models.

  3. Monitoring

    We have continued to work to resolve this issue and are now seeing processing times return to the normal ranges, but we are continuing to monitor to ensure good performance.

  4. Resolved

    Processing times have continued to be in the normal range, so we are now marking this issue as resolved.

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