Speechmatics outage, 19 August 2026

Batch SaaS EU1/US1/US2 - Degraded performance

Started
Resolved
19 Aug 2026, 15:30 UTC - reported afterwards
Impact
Minor

Last update from Speechmatics

We have identified an issue that caused a subset of customer jobs to fail or process more slowly in Batch SaaS EU1, US1 and US2 between 15:38 to 16:34 BST. This issue has been resolved and we have restored the service to normal performance levels. We apologise for any inconvenience.

19 Aug 2026, 15:30 UTC

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