Use Speak AI with Claude — Transcribe & Analyze from Claude
Connect your Speak AI workspace to Claude and access your transcripts, recordings, and analysis through natural conversation. No coding required. Set up in 2 minutes.
What you can do
Once Speak AI is connected to Claude, you can talk to your recordings the same way you talk to a colleague. Ask questions, get answers, and take action without switching apps.
Transcribe from Claude
Upload a recording and get a transcript with speaker labels, key topics, and action items. Everything happens inside Claude. Just drop in a file or paste a URL and ask for a transcript.
Search your media library
Ask Claude to find specific moments, topics, or quotes across hundreds of recordings. Instead of scrubbing through hours of audio, describe what you are looking for and get results in seconds.
Analyze meetings and interviews
Get sentiment analysis, themes, and insights from any conversation. Compare patterns across multiple recordings. Identify what customers keep saying, what topics come up most, and how tone shifts over time.
Manage your workspace
Create folders, organize media, schedule meeting bots, and export transcripts as PDF, DOCX, SRT, or plain text. Manage your entire Speak AI workspace through conversation with Claude.
Set up in 3 steps
You do not need any technical background to get started. Pick the version of Claude you use and follow the instructions below.
Sign up for Speak AI
Create a free account at app.speakai.co. You get a 7-day trial with full access. No credit card needed. Once you are in, go to Settings > API and copy your API key.
Connect to Claude
Choose the version of Claude you use:
Go to Settings > Integrations > Add MCP Server. Paste the remote URL: https://api.speakai.co/v1/mcp. Enter your Speak AI API key when prompted. Done.
Open your terminal and run npx @speakai/mcp-server init. The setup wizard auto-detects Claude Desktop on your machine and configures everything. Enter your API key when prompted.
Same command: npx @speakai/mcp-server init. It detects Claude Code and adds Speak AI as an available MCP server automatically.
Start asking
Open Claude and try something like:
"Transcribe this file" / "Search my recordings for pricing feedback" / "Summarize last week's meetings" / "What action items came out of today's call?"
Real workflows, real results
Here is how different teams use Speak AI with Claude every day.
Qualitative researcher
"Upload these 12 interview recordings, pull themes across all of them, and show me coding patterns." Claude transcribes each file, runs NLP analysis, and synthesizes findings across the full set. What used to take a week of manual coding happens in one conversation.
Sales team
"Get my Zoom call transcript, find the objections raised, and list the action items." Claude pulls the transcript from your Speak AI workspace, identifies the moments where prospects pushed back, and organizes the follow-up tasks by owner.
Content creator
"Transcribe my YouTube video, generate a blog outline from the key points, and pull out quotable moments for social media." Claude handles the transcription, extracts the structure, and gives you ready-to-publish content from a single recording.
Why Speak AI + Claude
Claude is powerful on its own. Adding Speak AI gives it access to professional-grade transcription, deep language analysis, and your entire media library.
81 tools at your fingertips
More tools than any other transcription MCP integration. Upload, transcribe, search, analyze, create clips, export, manage folders, schedule meeting bots, and more. All accessible through natural conversation with Claude.
70+ language support
Transcribe audio and video in over 70 languages with automatic language detection and speaker identification. No per-language setup. Process files in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and dozens more.
Full NLP analytics, not just transcription
Every recording gets sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, topic detection, theme identification, and entity recognition automatically. Claude can query these structured insights to compare patterns across recordings or pull specific data points.
Your data stays secure
Enterprise-grade security. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit. The MCP server authenticates with your personal API key and only accesses data in your workspace. The server is open source, so you can review the code yourself.
Teams trust Speak AI for their most important conversations
"Speak AI has been instrumental in transforming how we handle qualitative data. The transcription accuracy is impressive, and the NLP insights save us hours of manual analysis."
Research Director | Consulting Firm
"We switched from Otter.ai and the depth of analysis is on another level. Sentiment scoring, keyword extraction, and theme detection all happen automatically."
Product Manager | SaaS Company
"The ability to search across all our interview recordings and pull specific moments is a game-changer for our user research team."
UX Research Lead | Enterprise Tech
How to use Speak AI with Claude for transcription and audio analysis
Claude is one of the most capable AI assistants available today, built by Anthropic. It can write, reason, analyze data, and have extended conversations. But on its own, Claude cannot transcribe audio files, analyze video recordings, or access your media library. That is where Speak AI comes in.
When you connect Speak AI to Claude, you give it access to 81 professional transcription and analysis tools. You can upload a recording, get a transcript with speaker labels, pull sentiment analysis, search across your entire library of past recordings, create highlight clips, and export results in any format. All of this happens through natural conversation. You type a request, Claude does the work.
What is MCP and why does it matter?
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. Think of it as a secure bridge between AI assistants and external tools. Before MCP, if you wanted Claude to work with your recordings, you would need to download a transcript, copy-paste it into the chat, and hope it fit within the context window. MCP changes that. It gives Claude direct access to your Speak AI workspace so it can pull data, run analysis, and take actions on your behalf.
Claude has native support for MCP, which means connecting external tools is built into how it works. You do not need plugins, browser extensions, or workarounds. Add the Speak AI MCP server in your Claude settings and every conversation gains access to your recordings, transcripts, and analysis.
What Speak AI adds to Claude
Speak AI's transcription engine supports over 70 languages with automatic speaker identification. Every recording also gets NLP analysis: sentiment scoring, keyword extraction, topic detection, and entity recognition. These are not basic summaries. They are structured data points that Claude can query, compare, and build on.
The media library is the other major piece. Instead of working with one file at a time, you can ask Claude to search across hundreds of recordings. "What did customers say about pricing in the last quarter?" or "Which interviews mentioned onboarding challenges?" Claude searches your library, pulls the relevant transcripts, and synthesizes an answer with specific references.
Claude vs ChatGPT for audio analysis
Both Claude and ChatGPT can work with Speak AI through MCP. Claude has had native MCP support since it was introduced, making the connection straightforward on Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code. ChatGPT also supports MCP connectors. The core capabilities are the same: 81 tools for transcription, analysis, search, and media management.
If you already use Claude as your primary AI assistant, the Speak AI integration fits naturally into your existing workflow. If you use ChatGPT, the ChatGPT integration gives you the same access. Either way, Speak AI is the analysis engine running behind the scenes.
Can Claude transcribe audio and video files?
Claude cannot transcribe audio or video files on its own. It is a text-based model. But with Speak AI connected via MCP, Claude can accept audio and video files, send them to Speak AI for transcription, and return the results directly in your conversation. It handles MP3, MP4, WAV, M4A, WebM, and dozens of other formats. You can also paste a URL from YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, or other platforms and Claude will pull the recording through Speak AI.
Use cases by role
Researchers use Speak AI with Claude to transcribe interviews, run thematic analysis across dozens of recordings, and identify coding patterns. Instead of spending weeks on manual qualitative analysis, the entire workflow happens in conversation. Upload files, ask questions, get structured findings.
Sales and customer success teams use it to pull meeting transcripts, find specific objections or commitments, and generate follow-up summaries. When you can ask "What action items came out of my last 5 calls?" and get an organized list in seconds, pipeline management gets easier.
Marketers and content creators use it to turn recordings into written content. Transcribe a podcast, webinar, or video and ask Claude to create a blog outline, social media quotes, or newsletter highlights. The text analysis tools help identify which topics resonate most with your audience.
Business owners and consultants use it to stay on top of meetings without attending all of them. Schedule the Speak AI meeting bot to join calls automatically, then ask Claude for a summary, key decisions, and next steps whenever you are ready.
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Speak AI to Claude?
On Claude.ai (web), go to Settings > Integrations > Add MCP Server and paste the remote URL: https://api.speakai.co/v1/mcp. Enter your Speak AI API key when prompted. For Claude Desktop or Claude Code, run npx @speakai/mcp-server init in your terminal. The setup wizard detects your Claude installation and configures everything automatically. The whole process takes about 2 minutes.
Does it work with Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code?
Yes. Speak AI works with all three versions of Claude. Claude.ai uses a remote MCP connection (no software to install). Claude Desktop and Claude Code use the npm package, which the setup wizard configures automatically. You get the same 81 tools across all three.
What can I do with Speak AI in Claude?
You can transcribe audio and video files, search across your entire recording library, get sentiment analysis and NLP insights, create highlight clips, export transcripts in multiple formats (PDF, DOCX, SRT, plain text), schedule meeting bots to join your calls, manage folders, and more. There are 81 tools in total covering transcription, analysis, media management, and workspace organization.
Is there a trial?
Yes. Speak AI offers a free 7-day trial with full access to all features, including the MCP integration with Claude. No credit card required. Sign up at app.speakai.co, grab your API key from Settings > API, and connect to Claude right away.
Can Claude transcribe audio and video files?
Not on its own. Claude is a text-based AI model. But with Speak AI connected through MCP, Claude can accept audio and video files, send them to Speak AI for professional transcription in 70+ languages with speaker identification, and return the results directly in your conversation. You can also paste a URL from YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, and other platforms.
How is this different from uploading files directly to Claude?
Claude can read text files you upload, but it cannot process audio or video. Even for text, Claude works with whatever you paste into the chat. With Speak AI, Claude accesses your persistent media library with all of your recordings, transcripts, and NLP analysis. It can search across files, compare patterns, and reference data from recordings you uploaded weeks ago. Your data is organized, searchable, and analyzed, not just temporarily available in a single chat session.
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