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Research, reports, guides and customer stories from Sully.

Research, reports, guides and customer stories from Sully.

536 visits to test note generation

Doctor-Patient Conversation Transcripts, 536 Visits With Clinician Notes for Testing Note Generation

536 role-played doctor-patient transcripts, 264 with the clinician's own note, plus 1,701 section snippets. How to use them to test an AI scribe.

Choosing a clinical transcription API

The Best HIPAA Medical Transcription APIs for Developers, and How to Compare Them

There's no single best HIPAA medical transcription API. Compare BAAs, retention, medical models and streaming across 9 vendors, by use case.

What transcription really costs

Speech-to-Text API Pricing, What You Pay After the Per-Minute Rate

Speech-to-text API pricing compared as of November 2026, with a worked 20,000-minute example showing how add-ons and billing rules change the bill.

The speech layer behind ambient scribes

Speech-to-Text API for Medical Ambient Scribes, What the Transcription Layer Has to Deliver

What a speech-to-text API for medical ambient scribes must deliver, how to test vendors without PHI, and when composing vendors beats one API.

Separating clinician and patient voices

Speaker Diarization API, How to Separate Clinician and Patient in Medical Audio

A speaker diarization API returns speaker 0, not "clinician". How to map labels to roles, what breaks it, and why a low DER can hide clinical errors.

Keeping live transcription on track

Real-Time Transcription API, What Streaming Speech-to-Text Has to Get Right During a Visit

The hard parts of a real-time transcription API are in the session: partials, reconnects, idle billing, latency. Plus 5 APIs compared.

When a clinical conversation changes language

Multilingual Medical Transcription API, What Happens When Patients and Clinicians Switch Languages

A vendor's "50 languages" often means one per request. How to check what a multilingual medical transcription API does when speakers switch.

When dictation is the better fit

Medical Dictation API, When to Use Dictation Instead of Ambient Transcription

Choose a medical dictation API when one clinician is composing a document. When it beats ambient, what it needs, and what error studies show.

HIPAA protection beyond the BAA

Is a Medical Transcription API HIPAA Compliant? What a BAA Does and Doesn't Cover

A medical transcription API isn't HIPAA compliant by itself. What a BAA covers, what it misses, and where PHI leaks outside the audio.

Finding the right speech API

Best Speech-to-Text APIs in 2026, Compared for Developers

Eight speech-to-text APIs compared on price, streaming, diarization, languages, self-hosting and BAAs, with picks by use case. Written by a vendor.

From recorded visit to usable transcript

Audio Transcription API for Recorded Clinical Visits, From Upload to Usable Transcript

How to run recorded visits through an audio transcription API, with encoding math, safe retries, polling vs webhooks and deletion.

Inside the clinical speech pipeline

Medical Transcription API, How Clinical Speech-to-Text Works and How to Choose One

A medical transcription API returns JSON, not a note. Follow one sentence through the pipeline, see where it breaks, and learn how to choose.

Make more room for care.

Make more room for care.