Kaltura REACH
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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.
Kaltura's enterprise auto-captioning for video platforms.
Best for universities and enterprises that already use Kaltura as a video platform. Pricing: paid.
What it is
Kaltura REACH is the auto-captioning, translation, and audio-description service that runs inside Kaltura's enterprise video platform.
Watch out for: Enterprise pricing.
Install / use
Go to Kaltura REACH kaltura.comWhat people actually do with Kaltura REACH-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 | 25 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Kaltura REACH vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Kaltura REACH | 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 | 25 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Kaltura REACH
Frequently asked about Kaltura REACH
How much does Kaltura REACH cost?
Kaltura REACH is a paid product. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Kaltura REACH work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Kaltura REACH runs in the browser, so it works on any desktop OS with a modern browser, and on phones and tablets.
How do I get started with Kaltura REACH?
There is nothing to install — Kaltura REACH is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Kaltura REACH support?
Kaltura REACH lists 25 languages.
What are the limitations of Kaltura REACH?
Enterprise pricing.
Who is Kaltura REACH best for?
Universities and enterprises that already use Kaltura as a video platform.
Is Kaltura REACH open source?
No. Kaltura REACH 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.
Is there a Kaltura REACH desktop app?
No — Kaltura REACH is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.
What kind of tool is Kaltura REACH?
In this directory Kaltura REACH is filed under captions as a product.
What are the alternatives to Kaltura REACH?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/kaltura-asr-alternatives comparing Kaltura REACH with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Kaltura REACH-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 Kaltura REACH?
Kaltura REACH 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 Kaltura REACH?
$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 Kaltura REACH 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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