Assemblyai Introduces Guardrails: New Product Category Consolidating Safety Features for Enhanced Transcription Security

Custom Formatting feature added at $0.03/hr - standardizes dates, phone numbers, emails in transcripts

Guardrails introduced as new product category - consolidates safety features: Profanity Filtering, PII Audio/Text Redaction, Content Moderation

Universal-Streaming Multilingual model added at $0.15/hr - supports real-time transcription in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese

Speaker Diarization add-on introduced at $0.02/hr - detects multiple speakers and segments transcript into utterances

LeMUR section rebranded as 'LLM Gateway' - functionality expanded to include voice-to-intelligence workflow

Speaker Identification feature added at $0.02/hr - identifies speakers by actual names or roles instead of generic labels

Translation feature added at $0.06/hr - automatically converts transcribed audio to another language

LLM Gateway expanded with new models: GPT-5.2, GPT-5.1, GPT-5, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5 Nano, GPT 4.1, gpt-oss-20b, gpt-oss-120b, ChatGPT-4o, Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Claude 4.5 Haiku

Self-hosted deployments changed from 'coming soon' to available - EU region added alongside On-prem and VPC