Naver Clova Speech

by Naver Cloud Platform

Don’t want to wire up the Naver Clova Speech API? Drop the file here.

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.

Naver Cloud's Korean-first ASR with batch + real-time and speaker diarization.

API  ·  tiered KRW-per-second

TL;DR

Best for korean-language meeting, broadcast, and contact-center workflows. Pricing: tiered KRW-per-second.

Category
Transcription APIs
Pricing
tiered KRW-per-second
Platforms
API

What it is

Naver Cloud's Clova Speech family includes short-utterance recognition (CSR) for under-60-second clips and the longer-format Clova Speech endpoint for full meetings and broadcasts with speaker diarization, word timestamps, and segmentation. Korean is the strongest language; English, Japanese and Mandarin are supported on specific endpoints. Pricing is KRW-denominated with tiered per-second rates. Strong fit for Korean SaaS and broadcast pipelines. Best fit: korean-language meeting, broadcast, and contact-center workflows. Caveats: korean-first; english and japanese supported but quality varies; docs primarily in korean. Pricing as listed: tiered KRW-per-second. Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, streaming. Directory tags: commercial-api, regional-asia. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.

Best for: Korean-language meeting, broadcast, and contact-center workflows.
Watch out for: Korean-first; English and Japanese supported but quality varies; docs primarily in Korean.

Install / use

Naver Cloud: Clova Speech Recognition (CSR) / Long Sentence (CLOVA Speech)

What people actually do with Naver Clova 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.

Wire it into Amazon S3n8nMake.comGoogle DriveZapierSlack

Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

Naver Clova Speech vs Whipscribe

FeatureNaver Clova SpeechWhipscribe
CategoryTranscription APIsTranscription 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
PlatformsAPIWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Naver Clova Speech

Frequently asked about Naver Clova Speech

How much does Naver Clova Speech cost?

Naver Clova Speech is a paid product — published pricing: tiered KRW-per-second. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

What platforms does Naver Clova Speech support?

Naver Clova Speech is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.

How do I get started with Naver Clova Speech?

Naver Clova Speech is used through its API: get a key from the vendor, then call it from your own code. There is no desktop app to install.

What are the limitations of Naver Clova Speech?

Korean-first; English and Japanese supported but quality varies; docs primarily in Korean.

Who is Naver Clova Speech best for?

Korean-language meeting, broadcast, and contact-center workflows.

Is Naver Clova Speech open source?

No. Naver Clova Speech is a proprietary API from Naver Cloud Platform. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Who makes Naver Clova Speech?

Naver Clova Speech is made by Naver Cloud Platform.

What kind of tool is Naver Clova Speech?

In this directory Naver Clova Speech is filed under commercial api, regional asia as a API.

What are the alternatives to Naver Clova Speech?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/naver-clova-speech-alternatives comparing Naver Clova Speech with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Naver Clova 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 Naver Clova Speech?

Naver Clova 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 Naver Clova 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 Naver Clova 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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