Engineering guides
Long, concrete articles on media ingestion, transcription and RAG — with the code, the SQL schemas and the actual API contract.
Build searchable video archives with timestamped transcripts
Turn webinars, talks and video catalogues into searchable archives with timestamped transcripts, chunks, PostgreSQL search and citations.
Read the articleBest 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.
Read the articleYouTube 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.
Read the articleBuild a RAG pipeline from video transcripts
Turn YouTube videos, podcasts and video URLs into timestamped transcripts ready for chunking, embeddings, semantic search and RAG.
Read the articleOpenAI 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.
Read the articleTranscription 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.
Read the articleTurn 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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