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  "description": "The March 2025 snapshot of OpenAI's small speech-to-text model, and the first thing to beat Whisper on word error rate on OpenAI's own API. It is the only transcription id in the July 2026 legacy-audio deprecation: the floating gpt-4o-mini-transcribe slug moved to the December snapshot, and this pinned one is what stops answering.",
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      "url": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations",
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