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Engineering guides

Long, concrete articles on media ingestion, transcription and RAG — with the code, the SQL schemas and the actual API contract.

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Build searchable video archives with timestamped transcripts

Turn webinars, talks and video catalogues into searchable archives with timestamped transcripts, chunks, PostgreSQL search and citations.

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Best Whisper API alternative for URL-based media transcription

Compare Whisper-style APIs with Techtuel for URL-based transcription: YouTube, podcasts, video URLs, timestamps and European hosting.

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YouTube transcript API: captions vs audio transcription

Understand when to fetch YouTube captions and when to transcribe audio, with one API response for JSON, SRT and VTT transcripts.

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Build a RAG pipeline from video transcripts

Turn YouTube videos, podcasts and video URLs into timestamped transcripts ready for chunking, embeddings, semantic search and RAG.

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OpenAI Whisper API alternative for web media

A Whisper API alternative that accepts YouTube, podcast, audio and video URLs and returns timestamped JSON, SRT or VTT.

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Transcription API hosted in Europe: where your media is processed

Transcribe audio, video, YouTube and podcast URLs with an API hosted in France, with European processing and JSON, SRT or VTT output.

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Turn podcast episodes into documents for RAG

Turn podcast episodes into timestamped, searchable documents for semantic search, knowledge bases and RAG applications.

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