CaptionedText.com
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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.
Long-running captioning service for offline, broadcast and live event customers.
Best for broadcast and corporate customers wanting a mid-size US captioning vendor. Pricing: service · contact sales.
What it is
CaptionedText.com is a US captioning service supporting broadcast TV, corporate video and live event needs across CEA-608/708 and OTT formats.
Watch out for: Sales-led; no self-serve sign-up.
Install / use
Go to CaptionedText.com captionedtext.comWhat people actually do with CaptionedText.com-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 |
CaptionedText.com vs Whipscribe
| Feature | CaptionedText.com | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | service | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | service · contact sales | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | — | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | — | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about CaptionedText.com
How much does CaptionedText.com cost?
CaptionedText.com 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 CaptionedText.com work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
CaptionedText.com 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 CaptionedText.com?
There is nothing to install — CaptionedText.com is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of CaptionedText.com?
Sales-led; no self-serve sign-up.
Who is CaptionedText.com best for?
Broadcast and corporate customers wanting a mid-size US captioning vendor.
Is CaptionedText.com open source?
No. CaptionedText.com is a proprietary service. 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 CaptionedText.com desktop app?
No — CaptionedText.com is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.
What kind of tool is CaptionedText.com?
In this directory CaptionedText.com is filed under broadcast, live caption as a service.
What are the alternatives to CaptionedText.com?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/captionedtext-alternatives comparing CaptionedText.com with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate CaptionedText.com-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 CaptionedText.com?
CaptionedText.com 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 CaptionedText.com?
$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 CaptionedText.com 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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