NetEase Youdao ASR

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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.

Youdao Cloud speech-to-text — Mandarin recognition behind Youdao Translator and dictionary pen.

Web, Android, iOS  ·  tiered · per-character pricing in CNY

TL;DR

Best for translation-adjacent workflows that pair speech recognition with neural machine translation. Pricing: tiered · per-character pricing in CNY.

Category
Transcription APIs
Pricing
tiered · per-character pricing in CNY
Platforms
Web, Android, iOS

What it is

NetEase Youdao Cloud bundles ASR with Youdao's translation engine. Strong choice when the downstream step is Mandarin-to-English translation rather than archival transcription. Pricing and console are in Chinese; the developer experience favours customers who are already running Youdao Translation or Smart Pen hardware. Best fit when the buyer is translation-adjacent workflows that pair speech recognition with neural machine translation. The honest caveat: sweet spot is mandarin and a handful of major foreign languages; not a long-tail multilingual provider. Developer-grade API with self-serve signup; validate accuracy on representative audio for the target dialect before committing volume.

Best for: Translation-adjacent workflows that pair speech recognition with neural machine translation.
Watch out for: Sweet spot is Mandarin and a handful of major foreign languages; not a long-tail multilingual provider.

Install / use

ai.youdao.com — register and use REST API

What people actually do with NetEase Youdao ASR-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 diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

NetEase Youdao ASR vs Whipscribe

FeatureNetEase Youdao ASRWhipscribe
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
PlatformsWeb, Android, iOSWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to NetEase Youdao ASR

Frequently asked about NetEase Youdao ASR

How much does NetEase Youdao ASR cost?

NetEase Youdao ASR is a paid product — published pricing: tiered · per-character pricing in CNY. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

Does NetEase Youdao ASR work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

NetEase Youdao ASR runs on Web, Android and iOS.

How do I get started with NetEase Youdao ASR?

There is nothing to install — NetEase Youdao ASR is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

What are the limitations of NetEase Youdao ASR?

Sweet spot is Mandarin and a handful of major foreign languages; not a long-tail multilingual provider.

Who is NetEase Youdao ASR best for?

Translation-adjacent workflows that pair speech recognition with neural machine translation.

Is NetEase Youdao ASR open source?

No. NetEase Youdao ASR is a proprietary API. 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 NetEase Youdao ASR?

In this directory NetEase Youdao ASR is filed under regional asia, api as a API.

What are the alternatives to NetEase Youdao ASR?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/netease-youdao-asr-alternatives comparing NetEase Youdao ASR with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate NetEase Youdao ASR-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 NetEase Youdao ASR?

NetEase Youdao ASR 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 NetEase Youdao ASR?

$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 NetEase Youdao ASR 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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