TranscribeMe

by TranscribeMe

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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.

Hybrid AI + human transcription with strong privacy and security positioning.

Vendor, API  ·  from $0.79/min

TL;DR

Best for healthcare, market research and government customers needing HIPAA-eligible human transcription. Pricing: from $0.79/min (human verbatim) and lower for AI.

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Products
Pricing
from $0.79/min (human verbatim) and lower for AI
Platforms
Vendor, API

What it is

TranscribeMe offers AI + human-verified transcription with deep specialization in healthcare and market research. HIPAA-eligible with a BAA. Their human workforce is organized into small confidentiality slices for security. API and bulk-order portal are both available. Pricing tiers by turnaround and verbatim/clean variants. Best fit: healthcare, market research and government customers needing hipaa-eligible human transcription. Caveats: manual tiers have hours-to-days turnaround. Pricing as listed: from $0.79/min (human verbatim) and lower for AI. Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, HIPAA-eligible under BAA. Directory tags: voice-intel, transcription-service. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.

Best for: Healthcare, market research and government customers needing HIPAA-eligible human transcription.
Watch out for: Manual tiers have hours-to-days turnaround.

Install / use

transcribeme.com order portal + API

What people actually do with TranscribeMe-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.

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Features

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

TranscribeMe vs Whipscribe

FeatureTranscribeMeWhipscribe
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 TranscribeMe

Frequently asked about TranscribeMe

How much does TranscribeMe cost?

TranscribeMe is a paid product — published pricing: from $0.79/min (human verbatim) and lower for AI. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

What platforms does TranscribeMe support?

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

How do I get started with TranscribeMe?

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

What are the limitations of TranscribeMe?

Manual tiers have hours-to-days turnaround.

Who is TranscribeMe best for?

Healthcare, market research and government customers needing HIPAA-eligible human transcription.

Is TranscribeMe open source?

No. TranscribeMe 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 TranscribeMe?

In this directory TranscribeMe is filed under voice intel, transcription service as a product.

What are the alternatives to TranscribeMe?

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

Can I automate TranscribeMe-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 TranscribeMe?

TranscribeMe 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 TranscribeMe?

$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 TranscribeMe 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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