EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)

by Cornerstone OnDemand

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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.

Cornerstone's LXP with captioned video and AI skill mapping.

Web, iOS, Android  ·  contact-sales

TL;DR

Best for large enterprises rolling Cornerstone's LXP across their workforce with captioned video. Pricing: contact-sales.

Category
Products
Pricing
contact-sales
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android

What it is

EdCast, now part of Cornerstone OnDemand and re-branded into Cornerstone Xplor, is a learning-experience platform for enterprise. It surfaces captioned content from many providers and adds AI-driven skill mapping on top.

Best for: Large enterprises rolling Cornerstone's LXP across their workforce with captioned video.
Watch out for: Captioning is upstream-driven; not an ASR engine.

What people actually do with EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)-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 Google DriveYouTubeAmazon S3n8nZapierMake.com

Features

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

EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) vs Whipscribe

FeatureEdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)Whipscribe
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

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Frequently asked about EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)

How much does EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) cost?

EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) 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 EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) runs on Web, iOS and Android.

How do I get started with EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)?

There is nothing to install — EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

What are the limitations of EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)?

Captioning is upstream-driven; not an ASR engine.

Who is EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) best for?

Large enterprises rolling Cornerstone's LXP across their workforce with captioned video.

Is EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) open source?

No. EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) is a proprietary product from Cornerstone OnDemand. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Who makes EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)?

EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) is made by Cornerstone OnDemand.

What kind of tool is EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)?

In this directory EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) is filed under corporate l and d as a product.

What are the alternatives to EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/edcast-alternatives comparing EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)-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 EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)?

EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) 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 EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor)?

$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 EdCast (Cornerstone Xplor) 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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