AI-Media Education

by AI-Media

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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.

AI-Media's iCap and LEXI live-caption services positioned for higher-ed.

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TL;DR

Best for universities running live lecture streams who need broadcast-grade live captioning. Pricing: contact-sales.

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What it is

AI-Media is an ASX-listed captioning company whose iCap encoder and LEXI automatic-caption engine ship live captions for universities, broadcasters, and government. The education vertical pairs LEXI for lectures with human captioners for graduation ceremonies and senate sessions.

Best for: Universities running live lecture streams who need broadcast-grade live captioning.
Watch out for: Live caption pricing is high; AI-Media's catalog is broadcast-heavy.

What people actually do with AI-Media Education-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.

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Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

AI-Media Education vs Whipscribe

FeatureAI-Media EducationWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

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Frequently asked about AI-Media Education

How much does AI-Media Education cost?

AI-Media Education does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Does AI-Media Education work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

AI-Media Education 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 AI-Media Education?

There is nothing to install — AI-Media Education is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

What are the limitations of AI-Media Education?

Live caption pricing is high; AI-Media's catalog is broadcast-heavy.

Who is AI-Media Education best for?

Universities running live lecture streams who need broadcast-grade live captioning.

Is AI-Media Education open source?

No. AI-Media Education is a proprietary product. 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 AI-Media Education desktop app?

No — AI-Media Education is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.

What kind of tool is AI-Media Education?

In this directory AI-Media Education is filed under lecture capture as a product.

What are the alternatives to AI-Media Education?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/ai-media-education-alternatives comparing AI-Media Education with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate AI-Media Education-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 AI-Media Education?

AI-Media Education 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 AI-Media Education?

$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 AI-Media Education 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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