Webex Live Captions

by Cisco

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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.

Live caption and translation features inside Cisco Webex Meetings.

Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android  ·  bundled · Webex plans

TL;DR

Best for enterprises and governments standardised on Cisco for video collaboration. Pricing: bundled · Webex plans.

Category
Products
Pricing
bundled · Webex plans
Platforms
Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android

What it is

Webex bundles live captioning and translation as part of Cisco's collaboration suite, with admin controls for compliance-sensitive enterprises and public-sector customers.

Best for: Enterprises and governments standardised on Cisco for video collaboration.
Watch out for: Language coverage varies; feature gating depends on subscription tier.

Install / use

Go to Webex Live Captions webex.com

What people actually do with Webex Live Captions-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.

Wire it into Google DriveYouTubeAmazon S3n8nZapierMake.com

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

Webex Live Captions vs Whipscribe

FeatureWebex Live CaptionsWhipscribe
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, Windows, macOS, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Webex Live Captions

Frequently asked about Webex Live Captions

Does Webex Live Captions work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Webex Live Captions runs on Web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.

How do I get started with Webex Live Captions?

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

What are the limitations of Webex Live Captions?

Language coverage varies; feature gating depends on subscription tier.

Who is Webex Live Captions best for?

Enterprises and governments standardised on Cisco for video collaboration.

Is Webex Live Captions open source?

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

Who makes Webex Live Captions?

Webex Live Captions is made by Cisco.

What kind of tool is Webex Live Captions?

In this directory Webex Live Captions is filed under live caption, event as a product.

What are the alternatives to Webex Live Captions?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/webex-live-captions-alternatives comparing Webex Live Captions with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Webex Live Captions-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 Webex Live Captions?

Webex Live Captions 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 Webex Live Captions?

$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 Webex Live Captions 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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Need the subtitle file itself?

Upload the recording or paste a link and download SRT or VTT: see the SRT generator, YouTube to SRT and subtitles for any video.

Rather have it done for you?

Free tools cost setup time. When you want a finished transcript instead: see the best transcription services side by side, cheap transcription services and the real cost per hour and our transcription service with prices and turnaround.