Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro
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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.
Affordable hearing assistance earbuds with app-tuned amplification.
Best for users wanting low-cost hearing assistance + standard Bluetooth music in one earbud. Pricing: From $299 device.
What it is
Olive Union's Smart Ear and Olive Pro are OTC hearing-assist earbuds with self-fit hearing tests in the companion app. They focus on amplification and noise filtering, not transcription.
Watch out for: Not transcription — pure audio amplification; partner with phone-side captioning apps for transcript output.
Install / use
oliveunion.com — pair via the Olive Sound app
What people actually do with Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro-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 | 1 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro | 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 | 1 | 99 |
| Platforms | Hardware, iOS, Android | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro
How much does Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro cost?
Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro is a paid product — published pricing: From $299 device. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro runs on Hardware, iOS and Android.
How do I get started with Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro?
There is nothing to install — Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro support?
Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro lists 1 languages.
What are the limitations of Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro?
Not transcription — pure audio amplification; partner with phone-side captioning apps for transcript output.
Who is Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro best for?
Users wanting low-cost hearing assistance + standard Bluetooth music in one earbud.
Is Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro open source?
No. Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro is a proprietary product from Olive Union. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Can I use Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro in the browser?
No — Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro is a Hardware, iOS and Android application, not a web app. You install it rather than sign in to it.
Who makes Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro?
Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro is made by Olive Union.
What kind of tool is Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro?
In this directory Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro is filed under hearable, accessibility as a product.
What are the alternatives to Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/olive-smart-ear-alternatives comparing Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro-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 Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro?
Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro 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 Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro?
$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 Olive Smart Ear / Olive Pro 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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