AmiVoice
Advanced Media's AmiVoice — Japan's longest-running enterprise speech recognition family.
Advanced Media's AmiVoice — Japan's longest-running enterprise speech recognition family.
Best for japanese-language call centre, medical, and legal transcription with vertical-specific acoustic models. Pricing: tiered · cloud API pay-as-you-go + on-premise license tiers.
What it is
Advanced Media's AmiVoice has been the default enterprise Japanese ASR brand for over two decades. The product line splits into cloud APIs (AmiVoice Cloud Platform) and on-premise software, with industry packs for medical dictation, call-centre QA, and legal proceedings. Strongest pick when you need Japanese accuracy with Japanese-language support staff and contracts. Best fit when the buyer is japanese-language call centre, medical, and legal transcription with vertical-specific acoustic models. The honest caveat: japanese-first; non-japanese coverage limited. pricing pages in japanese. Procurement is via direct sales rather than a developer signup, so plan for a discovery call and a written proposal before the first transcript runs.
Watch out for: Japanese-first; non-Japanese coverage limited. Pricing pages in Japanese.
Install / use
amivoice.com — Cloud API plan or on-premise licenseFeatures
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
AmiVoice vs Whipscribe
| Feature | AmiVoice | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | tiered · cloud API pay-as-you-go + on-premise license tiers | free beta |
| Speaker diarization | — | Yes |
| Word timestamps | — | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, Windows, Linux | Web, API, MCP |
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