Audio, Video & Podcast Transcriber (Whisper)
Pricing
from $8.00 / 1,000 audio minute transcribeds
Transcribe audio and video files and podcast RSS episodes with OpenAI Whisper (faster-whisper, CPU). Get full text, timestamped segments, language detection and SRT + VTT subtitles. Pay per audio minute, only for transcripts that were saved.
You can access the Audio, Video & Podcast Transcriber (Whisper) 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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Links to records in an Apify key-value store work too. Pages on streaming or social platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Vimeo, Twitch, Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Netflix...) are refused at no charge. You must have the right to transcribe the media.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "rssFeedUrls": { "title": "Podcast RSS feeds", "type": "array", "description": "Podcast RSS (or Atom) feed URLs, one per line. The Actor reads each feed and transcribes the latest episodes from their enclosure (download) URLs. A podcast website that links to its feed works too. 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