Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)
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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.
Vonage's CPaaS speech-to-text via the ASR connector (typically Deepgram-powered).
Best for cPaaS / IVR builders on Vonage Voice who need transcripts in their call flow. Pricing: Vonage Voice price + ASR per-minute.
What it is
Vonage's Voice API supports inline speech recognition via its NCCO ASR action and call-recording transcription. ASR is delivered via partnerships (historically Deepgram). Best suited for IVR, voice-bot and call-routing flows where you already use Vonage for telephony. Pricing combines Voice minute charges with per-minute ASR. Best fit: cpaas / ivr builders on vonage voice who need transcripts in their call flow. Caveats: asr pricing is on top of voice minute charges; vendor under the hood may change. Pricing as listed: Vonage Voice price + ASR per-minute. Feature flags from vendor docs: word-level timestamps, streaming. Directory tags: commercial-api, telephony. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.
Watch out for: ASR pricing is on top of Voice minute charges; vendor under the hood may change.
Install / use
Vonage Voice API: NCCO ASR action
What people actually do with Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)-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 |
Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) | 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 | API | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)
How much does Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) cost?
Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) is a paid product — published pricing: Vonage Voice price + ASR per-minute. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
What platforms does Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) support?
Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.
How do I get started with Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)?
Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) is used through its API: get a key from the vendor, then call it from your own code. There is no desktop app to install.
What are the limitations of Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)?
ASR pricing is on top of Voice minute charges; vendor under the hood may change.
Who is Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) best for?
CPaaS / IVR builders on Vonage Voice who need transcripts in their call flow.
Is Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) open source?
No. Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) 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 Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)?
In this directory Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) is filed under commercial api, telephony as a API.
What are the alternatives to Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/vonage-speech-alternatives comparing Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)-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 Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)?
Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) 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 Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector)?
$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 Vonage Voice API (ASR Connector) 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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