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AMBIE combines a live commercial-engine API with proprietary acoustic-intelligence research.

AMBIE is a platform for acoustic intelligence — the goal is 90-95% transcription accuracy in environments where traditional ASR fails (ICUs, manufacturing floors, busy restaurants, court reporting). That is a goal, not a measured result. The proprietary models meant to investigate it remain research in development, with no measured result or committed release date. Read the research agenda.

In the meantime, the API itself is live. The endpoint shapes, auth, retry behavior, webhook signatures, SDKs, billing, and developer experience are stable enough to integrate today. Behind the scenes the inference is currently served by commodity off-the-shelf models. We’re honest about that.

What’s under the hood today

Endpoint	Today	Research direction (unvalidated)
Transcribe	Deepgram Nova-3 / OpenAI Whisper	Proprietary acoustic recognition under research
Translate	Llama 3.1 70B	No swap planned
TTS (Aura 2)	Deepgram Aura 2	Proprietary synthesis under consideration
TTS (MeloTTS)	MeloTTS via Cloudflare AI	No swap planned
Embeddings	BGE family	No swap planned
Rerank	BGE Reranker	No swap planned
Sentiment	DistilBERT-SST-2	No swap planned
Summarize	Llama 3.3 70B	No swap planned
Moderate	Llama Guard 3	No swap planned
Detect language	small classifier	No swap planned

The transcription and TTS endpoints are the intended focus of proprietary research. Translation, embeddings, rerank, sentiment, summarize, moderate, and detect-language are utility endpoints we offer because they’re commonly chained with audio workflows; we don’t plan proprietary versions of those.

Why integrate now?

• Integration compatibility. The intent is to preserve integration compatibility; any engine or API changes will be documented before release.
• Measured release requirements. Future proprietary engines require measured quality, cost and compatibility validation before release. No improvement or release date is guaranteed.
• Founder-friendly preview. $5 trial credit, $1/day cap during trial, no subscription, monthly invoicing. See pricing.

What would a proprietary release require?

A planned proprietary release would add an engine: "ambie" option (subject to validation and release documentation). Today’s deepgram and whisper options are intended to remain available for cost-sensitive workloads.

Pricing for the AMBIE engine will be announced before GA and will reflect the proprietary R&D and serving costs of a model built for noisy environments. Today’s rates are passthrough-COGS-based and apply only to the preview engines (deepgram, whisper); plan accordingly when budgeting for the AMBIE engine swap.

Email cisco@ambie.ai if you’re an early-access candidate (high audio volume, noisy-environment use case, willingness to share feedback during beta).

AMBIE is a product of RoamingPigs, Inc. (Las Vegas, NV).