Pollyo

by Pollyo

Don’t want to wire up the Pollyo 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.

AI-dubbing API for video platforms — backend OEM rather than a creator-facing app.

API  ·  paid

TL;DR

Best for video-platform engineers who want to bake AI dubbing into their own product without building the pipeline. Pricing: paid.

Category
Transcription APIs
Pricing
paid
Platforms
API

What it is

Pollyo positions itself as a B2B API for dubbing rather than a creator product. Smaller team; useful when the alternative is building the ASR→MT→TTS→lip-sync stack in-house.

Best for: Video-platform engineers who want to bake AI dubbing into their own product without building the pipeline.
Watch out for: Not a creator-facing app — needs engineering integration. Documentation/SDK depth less mature than ElevenLabs API.

Install / use

Go to Pollyo pollyo.com

What people actually do with Pollyo-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 ZapierMake.comAmazon S3SlackGoogle DriveEmergent

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported70
HIPAA eligibleNo

Pollyo vs Whipscribe

FeaturePollyoWhipscribe
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
Languages7099
PlatformsAPIWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Pollyo

Frequently asked about Pollyo

How much does Pollyo cost?

Pollyo is a paid product. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

What platforms does Pollyo support?

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

How do I get started with Pollyo?

Pollyo 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.

How many languages does Pollyo support?

Pollyo lists 70 languages.

What are the limitations of Pollyo?

Not a creator-facing app — needs engineering integration. Documentation/SDK depth less mature than ElevenLabs API.

Who is Pollyo best for?

Video-platform engineers who want to bake AI dubbing into their own product without building the pipeline.

Is Pollyo open source?

No. Pollyo 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 Pollyo?

In this directory Pollyo is filed under ai dubbing, translation as a API.

What are the alternatives to Pollyo?

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

Can I automate Pollyo-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 Pollyo?

Pollyo 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 Pollyo?

$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 Pollyo 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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Comparing tools before you pay?

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