# Changelog of Douyin AI Transcript Extractor — Video to Text (`sian.agency/douyin-ai-transcript-extractor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/douyin-ai-transcript-extractor/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/douyin-ai-transcript-extractor.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Douyin AI Transcript Extractor will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-09-18]

#### 🌍 v2 Relaunch — Translation + Price Cut

- **English translation add-on** — set `translateTo` (EN-US or 100+ languages) and get `translatedTranscript` on the same row. Context-aware AI keeps slang and tone; original transcript, segments, words and timestamps stay in the source language so timing stays exact. Charged per 1,000 characters.
- **Per-video price cut 74%** — a transcribed video drops from $0.027 to **$0.007** (paid tiers), making this the cheapest like-for-like transcript+metadata unit on the Store for Douyin. Translation lands at $0.010/1k chars and comments at $0.002/comment.
- **FREE tier unchanged** — 5 videos per run, no charge on no-speech videos.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Western teams read Mandarin campaigns without a separate translation tool
- Sub-minute videos cost $0.007 all-in; no per-minute metering surprises
- Same row now carries transcript, translation, subtitles, engagement and creator stats

### \[2026-08-23]

#### 🎉 Douyin AI Transcript Extractor - Launch!

- **Douyin video to text** - Turn a public Douyin URL into a spoken transcript
- **SRT and WebVTT export** - Hand editors a caption file, not a screenshot
- **Engagement on the same row** - Views, likes, shares and collects next to the words
- **Bulk URL lists** - Process a campaign batch in one run
- **Format skip** - Drop slideshows and live replays before they waste a charge

#### 💎 User Benefits

- One Actor instead of a downloader plus a separate transcriber
- You only pay when speech is found
- Same export shape as the SIÁN TikTok and Instagram transcript tools

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Brand teams mining spoken hooks from competitor Douyin ads
- Agencies checking what a KOL actually said before booking
- Editors exporting SRT from a food or beauty video