Vowel

No — Vowel shut down on 2023-07-05. Vowel bundled video calls with transcription. The calling half is Zoom/Meet's job now; for the transcript half, Whipscribe turns any meeting recording into timestamped, searchable text with summaries — no bot joins the call, you upload the recording afterwards. Vendor notice: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/vowel-ai-gets-cancelled-farewell.

Vowel shut down on 2023-07-05. Vowel bundled video calls with transcription. The calling half is Zoom/Meet's job now; for the transcript half, Whipscribe turns any meeting recording into timestamped, searchable text with summaries — no bot joins the call, you upload the recording afterwards. Vendor notice: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/vowel-ai-gets-cancelled-farewell.

Vowel bundled video calls with transcription. The calling half is Zoom/Meet's job now; for the transcript half, Whipscribe turns any meeting recording into timestamped, searchable text with summaries — no bot joins the call, you upload the recording afterwards.

Partly. Vowel has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: free / from $20/user/mo. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.

Vowel runs on Web, macOS and Windows.

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

Requires teams to actually meet on Vowel rather than Zoom/Meet/Teams; smaller install base.

Small teams that want to replace Zoom plus a notetaker with one tool — Vowel is the meeting platform itself.

No. Vowel is a proprietary product from Vowel Inc.. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Vowel is made by Vowel Inc..

In this directory Vowel is filed under meetings, video platform, notetaker as a product.

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.

Vowel 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.

$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.

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.