What teams build with the KolWrite API

One transcription API, many jobs. Each guide below gives the request to send, the settings that matter and what to check before you rely on the output.

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Use cases

  • AI agents & vibe coding: Add transcription to an app from Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, Replit, Bolt or v0 in minutes: a copy-paste prompt, the two API calls, where the key comes from and what it costs.
  • Developers & product teams: Ship transcription in your product: upload flow for local files, webhooks with HMAC signatures, speaker labels, SRT export, per-second billing and the choice of model per job.
  • Language research & linguistics: Transcribe interviews and corpora in 100 languages, including lower-resource ones such as Yiddish, Amharic, Swahili and Yoruba, with word timestamps and speaker labels in JSON for alignment and analysis.
  • Universities & students: Turn lectures into subtitles and searchable notes, transcribe research interviews with speaker labels, and translate course material, in 100 languages and from US$0.48 per hour.
  • Doctors & clinics: Use the KolWrite speech-to-text API for dictation and visit notes: record, transcribe, have the clinician review and edit, then file. A workflow guide with no compliance claims.
  • Legal: Draft transcripts of depositions, hearings and client interviews with speaker labels and word timestamps for citing moments in the recording. Machine drafts, reviewed by people.
  • Media, podcasts & subtitles: Generate SRT subtitles, translated subtitles and podcast transcripts with speaker labels in 100 languages, with word timings for editing. From US$0.48 per audio hour.
  • Call centers & sales calls: Transcribe stereo call recordings with each channel labelled Agent and Customer, handle overlapping speech, and process calls at scale with webhooks. Standard channel separation is included in the price.
  • Enterprises: Transcribe meetings, calls and archives across 100 languages with one API. Self-serve per-hour pricing, or contact KolWrite Enterprise for volume, order terms and organization deployments.

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