Khan Academy Captions
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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.
Khan Academy's community + machine caption pipeline across 50+ languages.
Best for k-12 and undergrad learners around the world watching Khan Academy in their native language. Pricing: free.
What it is
Khan Academy publishes English captions across its library and supports community translations into more than 50 languages through international partner organizations. Captions and transcripts are part of every video lesson on the platform.
Watch out for: Translation coverage is uneven; not licensable as a standalone caption product.
What people actually do with Khan Academy Captions-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 | No |
| Languages supported | 50 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Khan Academy Captions vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Khan Academy Captions | 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 | 50 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Khan Academy Captions
Frequently asked about Khan Academy Captions
Is Khan Academy Captions free?
Yes. Khan Academy Captions is free.
Does Khan Academy Captions work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Khan Academy Captions runs on Web, iOS and Android.
How do I get started with Khan Academy Captions?
There is nothing to install — Khan Academy Captions is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Khan Academy Captions support?
Khan Academy Captions lists 50 languages.
What are the limitations of Khan Academy Captions?
Translation coverage is uneven; not licensable as a standalone caption product.
Who is Khan Academy Captions best for?
K-12 and undergrad learners around the world watching Khan Academy in their native language.
Is Khan Academy Captions open source?
No. Khan Academy Captions 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 Khan Academy Captions?
In this directory Khan Academy Captions is filed under mooc as a product.
What are the alternatives to Khan Academy Captions?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/khan-academy-captions-alternatives comparing Khan Academy Captions with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Khan Academy Captions-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 Khan Academy Captions?
Khan Academy Captions 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 Khan Academy Captions?
$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 Khan Academy Captions 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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