AliGenie / Tmall Genie

by Alibaba

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Alibaba's Mandarin voice assistant powering the Tmall Genie smart-speaker line.

Hardware, Android, iOS  ·  From ¥99 device + free service

TL;DR

Best for chinese consumers buying Tmall Genie speakers for music, shopping, and smart-home control. Pricing: From ¥99 device + free service.

Category
Products
Pricing
From ¥99 device + free service
Platforms
Hardware, Android, iOS

What it is

AliGenie powers the Tmall Genie smart-speaker line that has shipped tens of millions of units in China. The 2024 Tongyi Qianwen LLM augmentation made dialogue more open-ended.

Best for: Chinese consumers buying Tmall Genie speakers for music, shopping, and smart-home control.
Watch out for: Mandarin-only; tied to Alibaba ecosystem; outside China the device line is unavailable.

Install / use

aligenie.com — Tmall Genie app or Genie speaker

What people actually do with AliGenie / Tmall Genie-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.

Wire it into Google DriveMake.comZapiern8nZoomSlack

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

AliGenie / Tmall Genie vs Whipscribe

FeatureAliGenie / Tmall GenieWhipscribe
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
Languages199
PlatformsHardware, Android, iOSWeb, API, MCP

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Frequently asked about AliGenie / Tmall Genie

Is AliGenie / Tmall Genie free?

Partly. AliGenie / Tmall Genie has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: From ¥99 device + free service. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.

Does AliGenie / Tmall Genie work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

AliGenie / Tmall Genie runs on Hardware, Android and iOS.

How do I get started with AliGenie / Tmall Genie?

There is nothing to install — AliGenie / Tmall Genie is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

How many languages does AliGenie / Tmall Genie support?

AliGenie / Tmall Genie lists 1 languages.

What are the limitations of AliGenie / Tmall Genie?

Mandarin-only; tied to Alibaba ecosystem; outside China the device line is unavailable.

Who is AliGenie / Tmall Genie best for?

Chinese consumers buying Tmall Genie speakers for music, shopping, and smart-home control.

Is AliGenie / Tmall Genie open source?

No. AliGenie / Tmall Genie is a proprietary product from Alibaba. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Can I use AliGenie / Tmall Genie in the browser?

No — AliGenie / Tmall Genie is a Hardware, Android and iOS application, not a web app. You install it rather than sign in to it.

Who makes AliGenie / Tmall Genie?

AliGenie / Tmall Genie is made by Alibaba.

What kind of tool is AliGenie / Tmall Genie?

In this directory AliGenie / Tmall Genie is filed under voice assistant, smart home as a product.

What are the alternatives to AliGenie / Tmall Genie?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/aligenie-tmall-genie-alternatives comparing AliGenie / Tmall Genie with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate AliGenie / Tmall Genie-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 AliGenie / Tmall Genie?

AliGenie / Tmall Genie 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 AliGenie / Tmall Genie?

$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 AliGenie / Tmall Genie 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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