VocTroLabs

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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.

VocTroLabs — speech and subtitling research lab from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Web, Linux  ·  enterprise · contact sales

TL;DR

Best for catalan and Spanish broadcast captioning where research-grade language coverage is needed. Pricing: enterprise · contact sales.

Category
Products
Pricing
enterprise · contact sales
Platforms
Web, Linux

What it is

VocTroLabs is a Spanish research-driven speech-tech vendor with roots at UPC Barcelona. Its commercial offering focuses on broadcast captioning and dubbing-adjacent technologies, with particular strength in Catalan, Spanish, and other Iberian languages. The team also publishes on speech synthesis and voice conversion. Best fit when the buyer is catalan and spanish broadcast captioning where research-grade language coverage is needed. The honest caveat: small lab-style vendor; production deployment requires bespoke engagement. 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: Catalan and Spanish broadcast captioning where research-grade language coverage is needed.
Watch out for: Small lab-style vendor; production deployment requires bespoke engagement.

Install / use

voctrolabs.com — contact

What people actually do with VocTroLabs-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 diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

VocTroLabs vs Whipscribe

FeatureVocTroLabsWhipscribe
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
PlatformsWeb, LinuxWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to VocTroLabs

Frequently asked about VocTroLabs

How much does VocTroLabs cost?

VocTroLabs 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 VocTroLabs work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

VocTroLabs runs on Web and Linux. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond Web and Linux.

How do I get started with VocTroLabs?

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

What are the limitations of VocTroLabs?

Small lab-style vendor; production deployment requires bespoke engagement.

Who is VocTroLabs best for?

Catalan and Spanish broadcast captioning where research-grade language coverage is needed.

Is VocTroLabs open source?

No. VocTroLabs 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 VocTroLabs?

In this directory VocTroLabs is filed under regional europe, research as a product.

What are the alternatives to VocTroLabs?

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

Can I automate VocTroLabs-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 VocTroLabs?

VocTroLabs 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 VocTroLabs?

$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 VocTroLabs 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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