Olelo

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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.

Multilingual live captioning and translation product (verify availability).

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TL;DR

Best for reference only — verify current vendor status before contracting. Pricing: contact vendor.

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What it is

Olelo has appeared in roundups as a live captioning + translation provider. Verify current operations before relying on it.

Best for: Reference only — verify current vendor status before contracting.
Watch out for: Status not independently confirmed.

Install / use

vendor site — contact for current status

What people actually do with Olelo-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 Google DriveYouTubeAmazon S3n8nZapierMake.com

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported10
HIPAA eligibleNo

Olelo vs Whipscribe

FeatureOleloWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription 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
Languages1099
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Olelo

Frequently asked about Olelo

How much does Olelo cost?

Olelo 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.

Does Olelo work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Olelo 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 Olelo?

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

How many languages does Olelo support?

Olelo lists 10 languages.

What are the limitations of Olelo?

Status not independently confirmed.

Who is Olelo best for?

Reference only — verify current vendor status before contracting.

Is Olelo open source?

No. Olelo 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 Olelo desktop app?

No — Olelo is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.

What kind of tool is Olelo?

In this directory Olelo is filed under product as a product.

What are the alternatives to Olelo?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/olelo-alternatives comparing Olelo with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Olelo-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 Olelo?

Olelo 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 Olelo?

$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 Olelo 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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Need the subtitle file itself?

Upload the recording or paste a link and download SRT or VTT: see an SRT subtitle file from any recording, the YouTube to SRT page and subtitles for any video.

Rather have it done for you?

Free tools cost setup time. When you want a finished transcript instead: see an honest roundup of the best transcription services, the cheapest way to transcribe an hour of audio and how our transcription services work.