Tilde ASR

by Tilde

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Tilde — Baltic-language NLP vendor with Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian speech recognition.

On-premise, Web  ·  enterprise · contact sales

TL;DR

Best for latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian government and broadcaster transcription projects. Pricing: enterprise · contact sales.

Category
Products
Pricing
enterprise · contact sales
Platforms
On-premise, Web

What it is

Tilde is a Latvian language-technology vendor that grew out of national-language preservation work. The company supplies machine translation, terminology management, and speech products to Baltic governments and the EU Council presidency systems. Its ASR is the strongest publicly available choice for low-resource Baltic languages. Best fit when the buyer is latvian, lithuanian, and estonian government and broadcaster transcription projects. The honest caveat: outside the baltics the offering is less competitive than big-cloud stt. Procurement is via direct sales rather than a developer signup, so plan for a discovery call and a written proposal before the first transcript runs.

Best for: Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian government and broadcaster transcription projects.
Watch out for: Outside the Baltics the offering is less competitive than big-cloud STT.

Install / use

tilde.com — contact sales

What people actually do with Tilde 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.

Wire it into Amazon S3n8nMake.comGoogle DriveZapierSlack

Features

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

Tilde ASR vs Whipscribe

FeatureTilde ASRWhipscribe
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
PlatformsOn-premise, WebWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Tilde ASR

Frequently asked about Tilde ASR

How much does Tilde ASR cost?

Tilde ASR does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Does Tilde ASR work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Tilde ASR runs on On-premise and Web. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond On-premise and Web.

How do I get started with Tilde ASR?

There is nothing to install — Tilde 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 Tilde ASR?

Outside the Baltics the offering is less competitive than big-cloud STT.

Who is Tilde ASR best for?

Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian government and broadcaster transcription projects.

Is Tilde ASR open source?

No. Tilde ASR 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 Tilde ASR?

In this directory Tilde ASR is filed under regional europe, enterprise as a product.

What are the alternatives to Tilde ASR?

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

Can I automate Tilde 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 Tilde ASR?

Tilde 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 Tilde 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 Tilde 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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