Duolingo English Test

by Duolingo

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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.

Voice-and-language proficiency test using on-device ASR for speaking sections.

Web, iOS, Android  ·  subscription

TL;DR

Best for university applicants taking an at-home English proficiency exam accepted by 5,000+ institutions. Pricing: subscription.

Category
Products
Pricing
subscription
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android

What it is

The Duolingo English Test is an at-home English proficiency exam used by 5,000+ universities as an alternative to TOEFL/IELTS. Speaking sections use ASR for grading; the test itself is one of the most widely deployed institutional uses of speech recognition in education.

Best for: University applicants taking an at-home English proficiency exam accepted by 5,000+ institutions.
Watch out for: Test-only; not a study tool or general transcription product.

What people actually do with Duolingo English Test-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 Amazon S3n8nMake.comGoogle DriveZapierSlack

Features

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

Duolingo English Test vs Whipscribe

FeatureDuolingo English TestWhipscribe
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
Languages—99
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Duolingo English Test

Frequently asked about Duolingo English Test

How much does Duolingo English Test cost?

Duolingo English Test is a paid product. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

Does Duolingo English Test work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Duolingo English Test runs on Web, iOS and Android.

How do I get started with Duolingo English Test?

There is nothing to install — Duolingo English Test is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

What are the limitations of Duolingo English Test?

Test-only; not a study tool or general transcription product.

Who is Duolingo English Test best for?

University applicants taking an at-home English proficiency exam accepted by 5,000+ institutions.

Is Duolingo English Test open source?

No. Duolingo English Test 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 Duolingo English Test?

In this directory Duolingo English Test is filed under ai tutor as a product.

What are the alternatives to Duolingo English Test?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/duolingo-english-test-alternatives comparing Duolingo English Test with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Duolingo English Test-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 Duolingo English Test?

Duolingo English Test 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 Duolingo English Test?

$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 Duolingo English Test 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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