CloudTranscribeMedical

CloudTranscribeMedical is a self-hosted medical speech-to-text platform built to be run as a business. Where general transcription stumbles over clinical vocabulary, this one is built for it: medicine names, procedures, conditions and diseases come back spelled correctly rather than approximated. Recognition is automatic speech recognition (ASR) from Amazon Web Services, running on your own AWS account, and the platform around it supplies the accounts, plans, gateways and dashboards needed to charge other people for the service.

The use cases it is aimed at are the ones where the terminology is the hard part — transcribing physician and patient conversations to strengthen clinical documentation, capturing phone calls for pharmacovigilance, and subtitling telemedicine consultations.

What it handles

• Clinical vocabulary — drug names, procedures, conditions and diseases, which is the whole reason to use a medical model rather than a general one.
• Speaker identification up to 7 people — more than the general-purpose sibling, because a consultation or a case conference is rarely two voices.
• Record or upload — capture audio in the browser, or bring an existing file.
• 7 input formats — MP3, OGG, WAV, WEBM, MP4, FLAC and AMR, the last of which matters for audio coming off phone systems and handheld recorders.
• Transcripts you keep — results are stored, shareable and downloadable.
• US English — the only language AWS currently supports for medical transcription, so it is the only one here.

Limits worth knowing before you price a plan

• Up to 4 hours of audio per file.
• Up to 2 GB per file.
• AWS Free Tier — 60 minutes a month free for the first year, enough to run the platform through a real workflow before spending anything.

The business layer

• Plans — monthly subscriptions and prepaid packs, created from the admin panel.
• 8 payment gateways — PayPal, Stripe, Razorpay, Paystack and Mollie for subscriptions and prepaid; Braintree and Coinbase for prepaid; and offline bank transfer for both. All of them, and every SaaS feature, are covered by the Regular License.
• Crypto — Coinbase takes Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, USD Coin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Dai on prepaid plans.
• Coupons and promo codes — discount codes for prepaid plans.
• Affiliate and referral system — referrals, earnings and payouts, included rather than bolted on.
• Finance dashboard — monthly and yearly income against estimated spend on the cloud STT service, which is the pair of figures that tells you whether a plan is priced above cost.

Requirements worth knowing

Built on PHP 7.4 and Laravel 8.4, with comprehensive documentation. A valid AWS account is required, since AWS is the engine behind every transcript, and minutes are billed by AWS at its own published rates — which is what the estimated-spend dashboard exists to track. The interface is fully responsive.

Ideal for

• Clinics and practices turning consultation recordings into clinical documentation without a typing pool.
• Medical transcription services replacing manual typing with a reviewed machine draft.
• Telemedicine platforms subtitling consultations for accessibility and for the record.
• Pharmacovigilance teams transcribing reporting calls where drug names have to be exact.
• Research and trial coordinators working through interview and case-conference audio.
• Founders launching a paid medical transcription service with plans, gateways and affiliates already built.