CloviTranscribe

CloviTranscribe — private, self-hosted transcription that turns audio and video into searchable, speaker-labeled text

Transcription that stays on your side, by CloviTek

TL;DR

• Self-hosted Whisper transcription with a clean web UI — your audio stays on the server you control. No third-party cloud, no data leaving your infrastructure.
• Upload a file or paste a link — then export clean transcripts as TXT, SRT, VTT, or JSON with word-level timestamps.
• Auto-detection across 99 languages, a job queue with real-time status polling, full-text search — and on higher tiers, AI meeting summaries.
• Flat lifetime pricing with monthly-renewing minute credits — no per-minute metering that scales up and drains your budget as volume grows.
• Stacking lifetime tiers from a one-time price — the top tier unlocks the REST API and webhooks for embedding transcription inside your own product.

See what's inside — how it works

Upload & Job Queue

Speaker-Labeled Transcript

Multi-Format Export

Full-Text Search

AI Meeting Summary

REST API & Webhooks

At a glance

Overview

Audio and video pile up faster than any team can process by hand — and the usual answers either charge by the minute until costs compound or require shipping private recordings to someone else's cloud. Not ideal. CloviTranscribe takes a different path: a self-hosted transcription engine with a clean web interface, where recordings are processed on infrastructure you control and exported in the formats you actually use. No metered billing. No third-party servers handling your sensitive material.

CloviTranscribe is an all-in-one self-hosted transcription workspace — featuring file and link ingestion, a job queue with live status, 99-language detection, and speaker labels. Multi-format export, full-text search, and AI summaries on higher tiers. Everything you need in one place.

Private, self-hosted transcription

Recordings are processed by a self-hosted Whisper engine running on the server you control — audio never leaves your infrastructure and isn't handed off to a separate third-party transcription cloud. That makes CloviTranscribe a natural fit for teams handling vendor negotiations, privileged conversations, or any sensitive material where data location actually matters. Because the engine runs on hardware you've already provisioned, there's no per-minute compute charge stacking up behind every job. No usage creep. One tradeoff worth naming up front: CPU-based processing is thorough rather than instant, so longer files take longer to return than a paid cloud API would.

Upload or link, then transcribe

Submit your work two ways — upload a file directly in common formats like MP3, MP4, WAV, M4A, OGG, and WEBM, or paste a link to a hosted recording. Simple as that. Each submission becomes a tracked job in the queue, and the dashboard polls status so progress stays visible without manual refreshing. Language is auto-detected across 99 languages, with an optional hint when the source is already known. The flow is intentionally plain — choose a source, start the job, and collect the transcript when it finishes. No unnecessary steps, just results.

Clean exports with timestamps

Finished transcripts export as plain TXT for documents, SRT and VTT for captions and web video, and JSON for downstream processing — all the formats a producer or developer would actually reach for in production. Word-level timestamps keep captions synced with playback, and structured output stays machine-readable. The export set covers the common destinations: a show-notes paragraph, a caption track, a JSON payload feeding another system. And here's the part that saves time — each completed job stays in the library for re-export. No forced re-runs, no starting over every time a different format is needed.

Speaker labels and AI summaries

Transcripts can be segmented by speaker turn — so a conversation reads as a back-and-forth rather than a wall of text — and speakers can be renamed in the viewer. On higher tiers, an AI summary distills a recording into a short overview with action items and key points, which turns a long call into something skimmable in seconds. One thing worth knowing about speaker separation: it uses sequential turn labels rather than acoustic voice fingerprinting. It marks who-spoke-when by turn boundaries, not by voice recognition, so treat the labels as an editable starting point — not a forensic identity match.

Search, library, and a developer API

Every completed job lands in a searchable library — and full-text search spans stored transcripts, so a phrase from weeks ago is one query away. Important jobs can be starred for quick return, and retention scales with whatever tier you hold. For builders, the Business tier exposes a REST API and HMAC-signed webhooks, so a finished transcript gets pushed straight into another product or automation. That's the path for embedding transcription inside your own application rather than operating it as a separate tab — direct integration, not another browser window to juggle.

CloviTranscribe brings transcription back under your own roof — private processing, predictable lifetime pricing, and exports that drop straight into captions, documents, or code. No middleman, no recurring fees eating into your margin. It suits producers shipping transcripts, operations teams documenting calls, and developers who need a transcription endpoint they can actually embed. The roadmap ships on a public cadence — roughly monthly — and founder responses to reviews and questions are part of how the product improves. Stack a tier to raise your monthly minutes and retention, and reach the top tier to unlock the API and webhooks. Grab a lifetime code and start with your next recording.

Plans & features

FAQs

CloviTranscribe vs. the alternatives

Key tradeoff worth knowing: CloviTranscribe runs on CPU rather than a paid cloud GPU, so longer files take proportionally longer than a cloud API would. You trade raw speed for privacy and flat pricing.

Why CloviTek built CloviTranscribe

I kept running into the same wall — piles of recorded calls, interviews, and product walkthroughs that needed to become text, and fast. The transcription tools I tried? They either charged by the minute until the bill made my stomach turn, or they asked me to upload private recordings to a cloud I didn't control. Neither felt right.

So CloviTranscribe runs on hardware you already own. Simple as that. It slots into the same CloviTek productivity suite I lean on every day — documents, slides, automation, all of it in one place.

Is it the fastest option on a CPU? No. And I'd rather tell you that now than oversell it. What it does give you is private transcription you can trust, and pricing that doesn't punish you for actually using it. That matters more than shaving off a few seconds, at least to me.

by CloviTek · Vitaly Kirkpatrick