Roku Voice Remote
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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.
Push-to-talk voice search on Roku TVs and streaming sticks.
Best for roku TV / stick users wanting voice-search across streaming apps and channels. Pricing: Included with Roku hardware.
What it is
Roku's remote has a microphone for push-to-talk search. The Roku Voice Remote Pro adds a far-field mic for "Hey Roku" hands-free wake.
Watch out for: Push-to-talk only on standard remotes; Voice Remote Pro adds hands-free wake; cloud ASR through Roku servers.
Install / use
Included with Roku Voice Remote (push-to-talk)
What people actually do with Roku Voice Remote-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 | 5 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Roku Voice Remote vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Roku Voice Remote | 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 | 5 | 99 |
| Platforms | Hardware | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Roku Voice Remote
Frequently asked about Roku Voice Remote
What do I need to run Roku Voice Remote?
Roku Voice Remote is hardware — a physical device rather than software you install.
How do I get started with Roku Voice Remote?
There is nothing to install — Roku Voice Remote is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Roku Voice Remote support?
Roku Voice Remote lists 5 languages.
What are the limitations of Roku Voice Remote?
Push-to-talk only on standard remotes; Voice Remote Pro adds hands-free wake; cloud ASR through Roku servers.
Who is Roku Voice Remote best for?
Roku TV / stick users wanting voice-search across streaming apps and channels.
Is Roku Voice Remote open source?
No. Roku Voice Remote 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.
What kind of tool is Roku Voice Remote?
In this directory Roku Voice Remote is filed under smart home, voice assistant as a product.
What are the alternatives to Roku Voice Remote?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/roku-voice-remote-alternatives comparing Roku Voice Remote with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Roku Voice Remote-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 Roku Voice Remote?
Roku Voice Remote 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 Roku Voice Remote?
$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 Roku Voice Remote 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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