ELSA Speak
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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 pronunciation coach for English learners, with on-device speech scoring.
Best for learners working on English pronunciation phoneme-by-phoneme. Pricing: subscription.
What it is
ELSA Speak is an English pronunciation coach that scores learners at the phoneme level using its own ASR model. The app is widely used in Asia and Latin America and partners with corporates and universities for English-fluency programs.
Watch out for: Focused on English; conversation breadth narrower than Speak / Talkpal.
What people actually do with ELSA Speak-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 | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
ELSA Speak vs Whipscribe
| Feature | ELSA Speak | 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 | iOS, Android, Web | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to ELSA Speak
Frequently asked about ELSA Speak
How much does ELSA Speak cost?
ELSA Speak is a paid product. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does ELSA Speak work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
ELSA Speak runs on iOS, Android and Web.
How do I get started with ELSA Speak?
There is nothing to install — ELSA Speak is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of ELSA Speak?
Focused on English; conversation breadth narrower than Speak / Talkpal.
Who is ELSA Speak best for?
Learners working on English pronunciation phoneme-by-phoneme.
Is ELSA Speak open source?
No. ELSA Speak is a proprietary product from ELSA Corp. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes ELSA Speak?
ELSA Speak is made by ELSA Corp.
What kind of tool is ELSA Speak?
In this directory ELSA Speak is filed under ai tutor as a product.
What are the alternatives to ELSA Speak?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/elsa-speak-alternatives comparing ELSA Speak with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate ELSA Speak-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 ELSA Speak?
ELSA Speak 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 ELSA Speak?
$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 ELSA Speak 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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