Customisable speech-to-text API – Tailor-made solutions

Loved by over a million customers

What we do

Integrate speech recognition capabilities into your software by using our API. You can connect to generic models or even collaborate with us to create a customized speech recognition for your specific use-case!

API Integration and costs

Do you want to gain insights into your phone conversations? Do you want to subtitle videos at scale? Or do you want to index your video-archive? We deliver the most accurate solution.

You can easily automate workflows and transcribe large quantities of audio and video by using our speech-to-text API. Our API is quite simple. It transfers audio or video files to our ASR server and returns the transcript in the desired format.

The prices for our automatic speech-recognition API are up to 10x lower than when uploading your audio and video. Our team will contact you to explain our pricing structure. Testing our API is for free.

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How it works

API Integration

Our API is available in more than 80 languages. We support dual-channel audio, automatic punctuation and casing, speaker labels, timestamps, and all audio/video file formats.

Please contact us for our specialized APIs for phone calls, texts perfected by humans, and real-time audio or video.

Fast

Quick turnaround for all your files

Accurate

Enabling an accurate flow of audio-to-data

Secure

GDPR compliant security and safety

Fast

Quick turnaround for all your files

Accurate

Enabling an accurate flow of audio-to-data

Secure

GDPR compliant security and safety

Supported Formats

We make audio accessible

XML / JSON

Include information such as start- and end-time per word, confidence scores, question indications, punctuation (…)

.doc / .txt:

Possible to export with or without timestamps and speaker changes

.SRT / VTT / EBU-STL:

Ideal to create automated subtitles. Settings for the appearance of the subtitles can be determined individually

Enable audio-to-data to flow accurately

Integrate the speech-to-text API with ease

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Our matrix

We outperform

Recognized by thousands of developers, startups and top
companies as outperforming our competition

Tooltip	Features	Google Video	Google Default	AWS Transcribe	Amberscript
Independent tests in the media (seen news section) have found Amberscript to have the highest accuracy of the three. Please use our Word Error Rate measuring tool to compare for yourself.	Accuracy	good	poor	okay	Great
	Accuracy updates every	6-12 months	6-12 months	6-12 months	6 weeks
Amberscript prices vary with customization required and usage per month	Price	$2.19/HR	$1.44/HR	$1.44/HR	$0.50 to $9/HR
	Time to integrate	3-4 days	3-4 days	3-4 days	1-2 hours
Amberscript supports Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Swedish and more.	Language Support	35 +	35 +	9	84
	Speaker Distriction	yes	yes	yes	yes
All word include the timestamps of when they were said	Word Timecodes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Confidence scores indicate the algorithm’s	Confidence scores	yes	yes	yes	yes
	Punctuation/Casing	yes	yes	yes	yes
Amberscript’s engines can be integrated with your software to transcribe or subtitle in real-time. Please contact us to learn more.	Real time support	yes	yes	yes	yes
Please contact us to discuss the possibilities of a custom models for the highest accuracies possible.	Custom models	no	no	no	yes
Amberscript natively supports MP3, MP4, WAV, M4A, M4V, MOV, WMA, AAC, OPUS, FLAC and MPG and can enable more file formats on request.	All formats accepted	no	no	no	yes
	Transcribe data from	GCP Buckets only	GCP Buckets only	S3 Buckets only	Anywhere
The Amberscript API can provide you with the main keywords of every file	Keyword extraction	no	no	no	yes
The Amberscript API can be used for subtitles by receiving the files in SRT, VTT or EBU-STL including advanced subtitle formatting	Export as SRT/VTT/EBU-STL	no	no	no	yes
Our transcribers will perfect the texts from the ASR to more than 99% accuracy. Prices differ per language.	Human perfected option	no	no	no	yes
Amberscript servers are located in Western Europe and none of your data will leave the EU	Server location	USA	USA	USA	Western Europe
Amberscript has GDPR level security and privacy and deletes your data immediately after processing.	Data privacy deletion	no	no	no	yes
We are always ready to help you when you need.	Free 24/7 support	no	no	no	yes

Google Video

Google Default

AWS Transcribe

Amberscript

Accuracy

good

poor

okay

Great

Accuracy updates every

6-12 months

6 weeks

Price

$2.19/HR

$1.44/HR

$0.50 to $9/HR

Time to integrate

3-4 days

1-2 hours

Language Support

35 +

Speaker Distriction

yes

Word Timecodes

yes

Confidence scores

yes

Punctuation/Casing

yes

Real time support

yes

Custom models

yes

All formats accepted

yes

Transcribe data from

GCP Buckets only

S3 Buckets only

Anywhere

Keyword extraction

yes

Export as SRT/VTT/EBU-STL

yes

Human perfected option

yes

Server location

USA

Western Europe

Data privacy deletion

yes

Free 24/7 support

yes

Compared by relative strength

How it works

Customized speech recognition models

We combine the world’s latest knowledge in technology, language, and science to develop customer-specific language models for distinctive use cases. We do so by exploiting existing datasets or by creating a new dataset from scratch. Our goal is to create language models that are fully tailored to the language use of your organization.

Customization

Customization improves the  speech recognition for:

Different accents

Acoustic environment

Adaptation of the vocabulary to recognize product names, special terms, abbreviations

Adaptation to domain-specific languages such as politics, healthcare, physics, tech, or other domains

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Are you interested in

Customized speech recognition models?

Highest possible accuracy
Recognizes critical words and nuances your users have
Product names, campaign names, and other specific terminology
Tailored to accents, phone speech, and other factors that influence audio quality

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Happy customers

Meet our

HVA (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) – Read case study.

Our research group conducts a lot of interviews. Previously, we worked with our own pool of transcribers.
I’m glad that now our interviews are all transcribed in one place, it saves a lot of time in arranging everything.

L. Van den Berg – Lecturer-researcher at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam

HVA (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) – Read case study.

L. Van den Berg – Lecturer-researcher at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam

Grundl Institute – Read case study

Amberscript offers their service cheaper than the competitors, thanks to a largely automated process. Besides, the customer service is great. Usually, everything runs so smoothly that I don’t even notice anything during the whole process.

Jochen Hummel – Executive at the Grundl Institute

Company Webcast – Read case study

In cooperation with Company Webcast, the leading webcasting provider in the Netherlands, Amberscript developed a speech recognition which is specifically trained on political language. Google’s recognition simply wasn’t accurate enough for political terms, names of political parties, or legislations, which are frequently discussed in our clients’ meetings.

Patrick van der Geest – CEO

Are there limitations on the number of files I can upload?

No, you can upload as many files as you would like.
Can you automatically detect the language of an audio file?

No, our standard API does not support language detection, however please reach out to our sales team here in order to find the perfect solution for your situation as we do have access to this technology.
Do you offer cloud transcription services?

Yes, our services are offered on the cloud.
Do you offer on-premise transcription services?

We do have an on-premise service, which is deployed in customized high volume cases. Please reach out to [email protected] to find out more.
Do you offer real-time transcription services?

Yes we do, we provide real-time transcription and subtitling services regularly in a variety of use cases. For more information please reach out to our sales team here.
Do you offer transcription services of pre-recorded files?

Yes, our transcription services can be used for many recorded audio and video formats.
We offer both automatic and manual transcription services, as well as automatic and manual subtitling and captioning services.

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