Audio Transcription and Speech to Text for Podcasts
Pricing
from $4.80 / 1,000 audio minute (standard)s
Turn podcast RSS feeds, Apple Podcasts links and audio or video files into text with timestamps. Whisper speech to text in about 100 languages, with SRT and VTT subtitles. Get only new episodes on a schedule. No login. $6 per 1,000 audio minutes. Maintained by CleanScrape.
You can access the Audio Transcription and Speech to Text for Podcasts programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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