Speak Ai

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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.

Qualitative-research transcription + NLP for media monitoring and research.

Vendor, API  ·  from $19/mo

TL;DR

Best for qualitative researchers and small media-monitoring teams. Pricing: from $19/mo (Starter).

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Products
Pricing
from $19/mo (Starter)
Platforms
Vendor, API

What it is

Speak Ai is a transcription + NLP platform aimed at qualitative research (interviews, focus groups, media monitoring). It bundles transcription, keyword/theme detection, sentiment, and summary into a single editor. Subscription pricing in tiers with included transcription hours. Best fit: qualitative researchers and small media-monitoring teams. Caveats: not a contact-center product; designed for batch research workflows. Pricing as listed: from $19/mo (Starter). Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps. Directory tags: voice-intel, research. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12. The product slots into the broader voice-AI tooling landscape and is best evaluated head-to-head with adjacent vendors in its subcategory; verify current language coverage, region availability, and compliance terms on the vendor's public docs at time of build.

Best for: Qualitative researchers and small media-monitoring teams.
Watch out for: Not a contact-center product; designed for batch research workflows.

Install / use

speakai.co dashboard + API

What people actually do with Speak Ai-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 DriveMake.comZapiern8nZoomSlack

Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

Speak Ai vs Whipscribe

FeatureSpeak AiWhipscribe
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
Languages—99
PlatformsVendor, APIWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Speak Ai

Frequently asked about Speak Ai

How much does Speak Ai cost?

Speak Ai is a paid product — published pricing: from $19/mo (Starter). Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

What platforms does Speak Ai support?

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

How do I get started with Speak Ai?

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

What are the limitations of Speak Ai?

Not a contact-center product; designed for batch research workflows.

Who is Speak Ai best for?

Qualitative researchers and small media-monitoring teams.

Is Speak Ai open source?

No. Speak Ai 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 Speak Ai?

In this directory Speak Ai is filed under voice intel, research as a product.

What are the alternatives to Speak Ai?

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

Can I automate Speak Ai-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 Speak Ai?

Speak Ai 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 Speak Ai?

$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 Speak Ai 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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