Wordcab
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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.
Conversation-AI API focused on long-form transcription + summarization.
Best for long-form summarization workflows (sales calls, meetings, podcasts) at scale. Pricing: Contact sales.
What it is
Wordcab offers a conversation-AI API combining ASR with summarization, action-item extraction, and topic modeling. Built around long-form conversational audio (sales calls, board meetings, podcasts). Useful as a one-call alternative to chaining a transcription vendor with a separate LLM for summary. Best fit: long-form summarization workflows (sales calls, meetings, podcasts) at scale. Caveats: smaller vendor; verify language coverage and slas. Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps. Directory tags: voice-intel, summarization. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12. The product slots into the broader voice-AI tooling landscape and is best evaluated head-to-head with adjacent vendors in its subcategory; verify current language coverage, region availability, and compliance terms on the vendor's public docs at time of build.
Watch out for: Smaller vendor; verify language coverage and SLAs.
Install / use
Wordcab REST API
What people actually do with Wordcab-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 | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Wordcab vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Wordcab | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | 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 |
Alternatives to Wordcab
Frequently asked about Wordcab
How much does Wordcab cost?
Wordcab 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.
What platforms does Wordcab support?
Wordcab is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.
How do I get started with Wordcab?
Wordcab 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 Wordcab?
Smaller vendor; verify language coverage and SLAs.
Who is Wordcab best for?
Long-form summarization workflows (sales calls, meetings, podcasts) at scale.
Is Wordcab open source?
No. Wordcab 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 Wordcab?
In this directory Wordcab is filed under voice intel, summarization as a product.
What are the alternatives to Wordcab?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/wordcab-alternatives comparing Wordcab with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Wordcab-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 Wordcab?
Wordcab 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 Wordcab?
$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 Wordcab 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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