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Universal Media Transcriber · Whisper Speech-to-Text

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AI transcription for any audio or video URL - YouTube, podcasts, interviews, meetings, MP3 files and hundreds of sites - powered by Whisper. Audio to text, subtitles (SRT & VTT), timestamped segments, 90+ languages, translate to English. No API key. Only successful minutes are charged.

Pricing

from $34.00 / 1,000 audio minutes

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Developer

Saulius Saulenas

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You can access the Universal Media Transcriber · Whisper Speech-to-Text 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "mediaUrls": ["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/2010-08-23_VOA_News_interview_with_David_Rudisha.ogg"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("sauliusautomatesit/media-transcriber").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Audio & Video Transcription - Universal Media Transcriber API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Universal Media Transcriber · Whisper Speech-to-Text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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