Web Captioner

No — Web Captioner shut down on 2026-08-07. Whipscribe transcribes a recording you already have — a sermon, lecture, stream VOD, webinar or interview — and returns a timestamped transcript plus SRT and VTT caption files ready to upload to YouTube or a web player. It is not a live captioner: it works on the file after the event, not on speech as it happens. Vendor notice: https://webcaptioner.com/.

Web Captioner shut down on 2026-08-07. Whipscribe transcribes a recording you already have — a sermon, lecture, stream VOD, webinar or interview — and returns a timestamped transcript plus SRT and VTT caption files ready to upload to YouTube or a web player. It is not a live captioner: it works on the file after the event, not on speech as it happens. Vendor notice: https://webcaptioner.com/.

Whipscribe transcribes a recording you already have — a sermon, lecture, stream VOD, webinar or interview — and returns a timestamped transcript plus SRT and VTT caption files ready to upload to YouTube or a web player. It is not a live captioner: it works on the file after the event, not on speech as it happens. If you need captions appearing live as someone speaks, these still work: Chrome's built-in Live Caption — Chrome settings, Accessibility, Live Caption. Captions any audio playing in the browser, offline, free.; Google Meet and Google Slides both caption speech live during a call or presentation.; Self-host Web Captioner itself — the author open-sourced it in 2023 and the code is still on GitHub to fork and run..

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

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

Web Captioner lists 40 languages.

Relies on the browser's Web Speech API (Chrome ships Google's cloud recognizer by default) — audio is sent to Google. Accuracy varies by mic and environment.

Churches, events, classrooms projecting live captions from a laptop with zero setup.

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

On GitHub at github.com/curtgrimes/web-captioner. It is maintained by Curt Grimes.

In this directory Web Captioner is filed under web app, browser extension, captioning 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.

Web Captioner 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.