Zoho Zia

by Zoho Corporation

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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.

Zoho's AI assistant with voice transcription across CRM, mail, and meetings.

Web, iOS, Android  ·  from $45/user/mo

TL;DR

Best for zoho-standard SMB and mid-market teams that want AI summarization and voice features without leaving the Zoho stack. Pricing: from $45/user/mo.

Category
Products
Pricing
from $45/user/mo
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android

What it is

Zia is Zoho's AI assistant that runs across the Zoho One suite (CRM, Mail, Meeting, Desk). The voice and meeting features include AI-generated call summaries from Zoho Meeting recordings, voice-to-text dictation inside CRM activities, sentiment detection on emails and tickets, and predictive lead scoring. Zia is bundled with Zoho One and Zoho CRM Plus rather than priced as a separate product, which is consistent with Zoho's broader strategy of competing on total cost across many apps rather than depth of any single product.

Best for: Zoho-standard SMB and mid-market teams that want AI summarization and voice features without leaving the Zoho stack.
Watch out for: Best inside the Zoho ecosystem; weaker as a standalone CI tool.

Install / use

zoho.com — Bundled with Zoho One and Zoho CRM Plus, from $45/user/mo

What people actually do with Zoho Zia-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 ZoomSlackNotionAirtableLoomMake.com

Features

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

Zoho Zia vs Whipscribe

FeatureZoho ZiaWhipscribe
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, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Zoho Zia

Frequently asked about Zoho Zia

How much does Zoho Zia cost?

Zoho Zia is a paid product — published pricing: from $45/user/mo. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

Does Zoho Zia work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Zoho Zia runs on Web, iOS and Android.

How do I get started with Zoho Zia?

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

What are the limitations of Zoho Zia?

Best inside the Zoho ecosystem; weaker as a standalone CI tool.

Who is Zoho Zia best for?

Zoho-standard SMB and mid-market teams that want AI summarization and voice features without leaving the Zoho stack.

Is Zoho Zia open source?

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

Who makes Zoho Zia?

Zoho Zia is made by Zoho Corporation.

What kind of tool is Zoho Zia?

In this directory Zoho Zia is filed under meetings, crm, productivity as a product.

What are the alternatives to Zoho Zia?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/zoho-zia-voice-alternatives comparing Zoho Zia with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Zoho Zia-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 Zoho Zia?

Zoho Zia 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 Zoho Zia?

$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 Zoho Zia 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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