Kakao Kanana Speech
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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.
Kakao's Kanana foundation-model family with audio understanding.
Best for korean enterprises in the Kakao ecosystem. Pricing: Contact sales.
What it is
Kanana is Kakao's foundation-model family with audio capabilities including transcription. Sold by Kakao Enterprise to Korean B2B customers. Most relevant for Korean-language enterprise contracts. Verify access and pricing with Kakao Enterprise sales. Best fit: korean enterprises in the kakao ecosystem. Caveats: korean-first; access primarily b2b. Directory tags: commercial-api, regional-asia, foundation-model. 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: Korean-first; access primarily B2B.
Install / use
Kakao Enterprise Kanana API access
What people actually do with Kakao Kanana Speech-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 | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Kakao Kanana Speech vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Kakao Kanana Speech | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Transcription APIs | 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 | API | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Kakao Kanana Speech
How much does Kakao Kanana Speech cost?
Kakao Kanana Speech 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.
What platforms does Kakao Kanana Speech support?
Kakao Kanana Speech is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.
How do I get started with Kakao Kanana Speech?
There is nothing to install — Kakao Kanana Speech is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Kakao Kanana Speech?
Korean-first; access primarily B2B.
Who is Kakao Kanana Speech best for?
Korean enterprises in the Kakao ecosystem.
Is Kakao Kanana Speech open source?
No. Kakao Kanana Speech is a proprietary API from Kakao Enterprise. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes Kakao Kanana Speech?
Kakao Kanana Speech is made by Kakao Enterprise.
What kind of tool is Kakao Kanana Speech?
In this directory Kakao Kanana Speech is filed under commercial api, regional asia, foundation model as a API.
What are the alternatives to Kakao Kanana Speech?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/kakao-kanana-speech-alternatives comparing Kakao Kanana Speech with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Kakao Kanana Speech-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 Kakao Kanana Speech?
Kakao Kanana Speech 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 Kakao Kanana Speech?
$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 Kakao Kanana Speech 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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