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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Subtitle translation as a managed service from 3Play Media.
Best for higher-ed and enterprise customers already on 3Play for captions who want subtitle translation through the same vendor + workflow. Pricing: paid.
What it is
3Play Media's translation surface — sits alongside their captioning + transcription services. Same Boston team behind the 3play-media + 3play-live entries in Lanes C and E.
Watch out for: Coverage skews to top-24 commercial languages. Pricing per-minute, quote-driven for volume.
Install / use
Go to 3Play Translate 3playmedia.comWhat people actually do with 3Play Translate-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 24 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
3Play Translate vs Whipscribe
| Feature | 3Play Translate | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 24 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to 3Play Translate
Frequently asked about 3Play Translate
How much does 3Play Translate cost?
3Play Translate is a paid product. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does 3Play Translate work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
3Play Translate runs in the browser, so it works on any desktop OS with a modern browser, and on phones and tablets.
How do I get started with 3Play Translate?
There is nothing to install — 3Play Translate is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does 3Play Translate support?
3Play Translate lists 24 languages.
What are the limitations of 3Play Translate?
Coverage skews to top-24 commercial languages. Pricing per-minute, quote-driven for volume.
Who is 3Play Translate best for?
Higher-ed and enterprise customers already on 3Play for captions who want subtitle translation through the same vendor + workflow.
Is 3Play Translate open source?
No. 3Play Translate is a proprietary product from 3Play Media. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Is there a 3Play Translate desktop app?
No — 3Play Translate is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.
Who makes 3Play Translate?
3Play Translate is made by 3Play Media.
What kind of tool is 3Play Translate?
In this directory 3Play Translate is filed under translation, subtitle translation as a product.
What are the alternatives to 3Play Translate?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/3play-translate-alternatives comparing 3Play Translate with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate 3Play Translate-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from 3Play Translate?
3Play Translate is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of 3Play Translate?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the 3Play Translate category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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