# Changelog of Media Transcriber: Audio, Video & Podcast to Text (`sauliusautomatesit/media-transcriber`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sauliusautomatesit/media-transcriber/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sauliusautomatesit/media-transcriber.md

## Changelog

### 1.4.3 — 13 September 2026 (not yet built or published)

- A run whose every recording was rejected by its own source — silence, an unreachable or
  expired URL, a live stream, an unsupported protocol, or a recording past your own duration
  or size limit — now finishes successfully and reports each reason as a dataset row, instead
  of failing the whole run. Nothing about charging changes: these rows are still 0 audio
  minutes. `SUMMARY.inputCausedFailureOnly` records when this applied.
- Any fault on our side — model load, worker exit, transcription or delivery failure, a batch
  stop, or uncertain billing or checkpoint state — still fails the run exactly as before.

### 1.4.2 — 10 September 2026

- Three suggested processing choices: Basic/Base, Quality/Small and Max/Medium. Older `model: tiny` inputs still work; Tiny is not a fourth tier.
- Related RAG settings grouped together; machine-readable retry guidance and audio-charge state on errors and run summaries.
- Real output screenshots and a short saved-result walkthrough, source-test conditions and explicit scheduled pricing date.
- No recognition-model, transcription-quality, resource-budget or tariff change in this patch.

### 1.4.1 — 10 September 2026

In-flight resource checks, bounded feed/download/SDK operations, lower-overhead decoded sample handling and private recovery checkpoints. Use Resurrect on the original run; reconcile uncertain delivery or billing before retrying. These protections do not guarantee zero loss.

### 1.3.1 — 10 September 2026

Effective-price preflight and billing receipts, bounded workers, signed file links, timestamp diagnostics, opt-in sentence-aware RAG, paragraphs and updated onboarding.

### 1.2 — 9 September 2026

Podcast RSS/Atom input and repeat-run checkpoints; Markdown and RAG exports.

### 1.1 — 6 September 2026

Five-minute audio processing, no-speech failure handling and cached models. The historical 75-minute fixture checked duration acceptance, not representative long-podcast accuracy.

### Scheduled pricing — 24 September 2026, 19:51:10 UTC

Basic $0.035, Quality $0.06 and Max $0.12 per rounded-up audio minute. Standard plan discounts apply. Actor-start remains $0.00005 per GB. The existing $0.04 headline minute rate remains effective until then; old pinned builds retain their legacy event. See the Pricing tab for applicable rates.