Tencent Cloud ASR
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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.
Tencent's cloud speech-to-text with one-sentence, sentence, and real-time APIs.
Best for chinese-language call-center transcription and meeting capture inside the Tencent Cloud ecosystem. Pricing: tiered · per-second pricing in CNY.
What it is
Tencent Cloud ASR offers three engine families — one-sentence recognition (under 60 s), sentence recognition (under 5 hr), and real-time streaming. Strong on Mandarin plus several Chinese dialects, with hotword bias and customer-specific model training available on the enterprise tier. Often paired with Tencent Meeting transcripts and WeChat-ecosystem voice features. Best fit when the buyer is chinese-language call-center transcription and meeting capture inside the tencent cloud ecosystem. The honest caveat: console and most documentation are in simplified chinese; cross-border data flow needs review. Developer-grade API with self-serve signup; validate accuracy on representative audio for the target dialect before committing volume.
Watch out for: Console and most documentation are in Simplified Chinese; cross-border data flow needs review.
Install / use
cloud.tencent.com/product/asr — console signup, then SDK or REST
What people actually do with Tencent Cloud ASR-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 | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Tencent Cloud ASR vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Tencent Cloud ASR | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Transcription APIs | 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 | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Tencent Cloud ASR
Frequently asked about Tencent Cloud ASR
How much does Tencent Cloud ASR cost?
Tencent Cloud ASR is a paid product — published pricing: tiered · per-second pricing in CNY. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Tencent Cloud ASR work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Tencent Cloud ASR runs on Web, Linux, Windows, Android and iOS.
How do I get started with Tencent Cloud ASR?
There is nothing to install — Tencent Cloud ASR is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Tencent Cloud ASR?
Console and most documentation are in Simplified Chinese; cross-border data flow needs review.
Who is Tencent Cloud ASR best for?
Chinese-language call-center transcription and meeting capture inside the Tencent Cloud ecosystem.
Is Tencent Cloud ASR open source?
No. Tencent Cloud ASR 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 Tencent Cloud ASR?
In this directory Tencent Cloud ASR is filed under regional asia, api as a API.
What are the alternatives to Tencent Cloud ASR?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/tencent-cloud-asr-alternatives comparing Tencent Cloud ASR with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Tencent Cloud ASR-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 Tencent Cloud ASR?
Tencent Cloud ASR 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 Tencent Cloud ASR?
$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 Tencent Cloud ASR 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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