Deciphr
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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-powered podcast and video producer for transcripts + clips + content.
Best for podcasters who want auto-generated short clips + content from a long episode. Pricing: from $20/mo.
What it is
Deciphr is a podcast and video production assistant that runs ASR + LLMs on uploaded media to generate transcripts, AI-selected short clips, show notes, and quotes. Aimed at independent podcasters and small studios. Subscription pricing. Best fit: podcasters who want auto-generated short clips + content from a long episode. Caveats: podcast workflow only. Pricing as listed: from $20/mo. Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps. Directory tags: voice-intel, podcast. 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: Podcast workflow only.
Install / use
deciphr.ai upload
What people actually do with Deciphr-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 | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Deciphr vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Deciphr | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | 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 | Vendor | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Deciphr
Frequently asked about Deciphr
How much does Deciphr cost?
Deciphr is a paid product — published pricing: from $20/mo. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
How do I get started with Deciphr?
There is nothing to install — Deciphr is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Deciphr?
Podcast workflow only.
Who is Deciphr best for?
Podcasters who want auto-generated short clips + content from a long episode.
Is Deciphr open source?
No. Deciphr 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.
What kind of tool is Deciphr?
In this directory Deciphr is filed under voice intel, podcast as a product.
What are the alternatives to Deciphr?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/deciphr-podcast-alternatives comparing Deciphr with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Deciphr-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 Deciphr?
Deciphr 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 Deciphr?
$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 Deciphr 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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