Baidu ERNIE Speech
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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.
Baidu's ERNIE-aligned speech models inside ERNIE Bot Cloud.
Best for mandarin-first workflows wanting Baidu's ERNIE-aligned speech features. Pricing: tiered RMB-per-call.
What it is
Baidu ERNIE Speech ties Baidu's ERNIE foundation models to its speech recognition stack, exposing speech-to-text plus higher-level analysis (intent, semantics) tuned for Mandarin. Sold inside ERNIE Bot Cloud (Wenxin Qianfan). China-first; international customers should verify access. Best fit: mandarin-first workflows wanting baidu's ernie-aligned speech features. Caveats: china-first; international docs limited. Pricing as listed: tiered RMB-per-call. Feature flags from vendor docs: streaming. Directory tags: commercial-api, regional-asia, foundation-model. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12. The product slots into the broader voice-AI tooling landscape and is best evaluated head-to-head with adjacent vendors in its subcategory; verify current language coverage, region availability, and compliance terms on the vendor's public docs at time of build.
Watch out for: China-first; international docs limited.
Install / use
Baidu ERNIE Bot Cloud speech endpoints
What people actually do with Baidu ERNIE Speech-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 | Yes |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Baidu ERNIE Speech vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Baidu ERNIE Speech | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Transcription APIs | 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 | — | 99 |
| Platforms | API | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Baidu ERNIE Speech
How much does Baidu ERNIE Speech cost?
Baidu ERNIE Speech is a paid product — published pricing: tiered RMB-per-call. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
What platforms does Baidu ERNIE Speech support?
Baidu ERNIE Speech is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.
How do I get started with Baidu ERNIE Speech?
Baidu ERNIE Speech is used through its API: get a key from the vendor, then call it from your own code. There is no desktop app to install.
What are the limitations of Baidu ERNIE Speech?
China-first; international docs limited.
Who is Baidu ERNIE Speech best for?
Mandarin-first workflows wanting Baidu's ERNIE-aligned speech features.
Is Baidu ERNIE Speech open source?
No. Baidu ERNIE Speech is a proprietary API. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
What kind of tool is Baidu ERNIE Speech?
In this directory Baidu ERNIE Speech is filed under commercial api, regional asia, foundation model as a API.
What are the alternatives to Baidu ERNIE Speech?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/baidu-ernie-speech-alternatives comparing Baidu ERNIE Speech with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Baidu ERNIE Speech-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 Baidu ERNIE Speech?
Baidu ERNIE Speech 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 Baidu ERNIE Speech?
$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 Baidu ERNIE Speech 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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