Speakr Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Speakr hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Speakr and turn recordings into searchable transcripts and summaries on a server you control. xCloud runs the pinned Speakr 0.10.5-alpha image with a generated administrator password and session secret, mounts persistent volumes for uploads and application state, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes. You bring your own OpenAI and OpenRouter API keys for the models.

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What is Speakr?

Speakr is a self-hosted AI transcription and intelligent note-taking platform. Upstream says it transforms audio recordings into organized, searchable notes and runs on your own infrastructure for privacy-conscious groups and individuals. You upload a file or record in the browser, and Speakr produces a transcript, a title and a summary, and lets you ask questions about what was said. A self-hosted Speakr is AGPL-3.0 licensed, and this release is labelled alpha.

On xCloud the template runs Speakr 0.10.5-alpha from the official image, pinned by digest, with uploads on speakr_uploads and the database on speakr_instance. Transcription is not local: uploaded audio goes to OpenAI with your key, and transcript text may go to OpenRouter for titles, summaries and chat. Public registration is closed, and you sign in with the administrator email.

From Sign-Up to Your First Transcript In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Speakr install normally means a container, two persistent volumes, a session secret, an administrator account, provider keys, a domain and a certificate before the first upload. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Speakr from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain, then enter the administrator email, your OpenAI transcription API key and your OpenRouter text-model API key.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Speakr image, pinned by immutable digest, mount the speakr_uploads and speakr_instance volumes, generate the administrator password and session secret, turn public registration off and publish the app over HTTPS with no public database or cache port.
Step 03
Upload A Recording
Open your HTTPS URL and sign in with the administrator email and the generated password shown in the credentials. Upload a short, non-sensitive MP3 or M4A recording and check its transcript and title.

Everything Speakr Does, On Your Own Server

Speakr runs in full here: upload or record audio, read the transcript, and get summaries and chat, with your recordings stored on volumes you own.

Searchable Transcripts
Each recording becomes a transcript you can search, with playback synced to the text so you can jump to any line.
Titles And Summaries
Speakr generates a title and summary for every recording through the OpenRouter text model you configure.
Chat About A Recording
Ask questions about a recording and get answers drawn from its transcript, with timestamps that start playback at that moment.
Folders And Tags
Organize a growing library with folders and tags, and search across recordings with Inquire Mode.
Speaker Labels With The Default Model
The template uses OpenAI's gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize model, which labels who said what in a recording.
Generated Admin, Registration Closed
xCloud generates the administrator password and public registration is disabled; add further users from Speakr's administrator interface.

Everything You Need To Run Your Transcription 24/7

Managed hosting for Speakr, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Speakr 0.10.5-alpha deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Administrator password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Speakr

Turn interviews into searchable transcripts
Upload research or press interviews and find a quote later by searching the transcript instead of replaying the audio.
Get summaries of meetings and calls
Let Speakr write a title and summary for each recording, then ask follow-up questions about it in chat.
Keep sensitive recordings in your own library
Uploaded audio, the database and generated files live on volumes on your server rather than in a hosted note-taking service.
Build a library from lectures and podcasts
Organize recordings in folders and tags, and search across them as the collection grows.

Speakr Screenshots

Speakr's recording library and capture screen after sign-in

The xCloud install form for Speakr, with administrator email and the OpenAI and OpenRouter key fields

Speakr vs Alternatives

Otter.ai: A hosted transcription and meeting-notes service. A Speakr alternative to Otter.ai is an app on a server you run, with recordings stored on your own volumes and provider calls made with your own keys.
Scriberr: Scriberr has its own OneClick page. In a Speakr vs Scriberr comparison, Scriberr transcribes on the server itself with WhisperX or Parakeet, whereas Speakr sends audio to the OpenAI key you provide.
Faster-Whisper: Faster-Whisper has its own OneClick page. It is a speech-to-text server that returns transcripts, while Speakr is the full application with a library, summaries and chat.
Paperless-AI: Paperless-AI has its own OneClick page. It brings AI tagging and chat to scanned documents, where Speakr does the equivalent for audio recordings.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Speakr hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Meets the 4 GB baseline with limited headroom.

$24.99per month

6 GB RAM
4 vCPU cores
100 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 16 GB

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Transcription Library?

Speakr on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Speakr free?

The app is AGPL-3.0 open source and free to run. Costs come from the Cloud VPS plus OpenAI and OpenRouter, which bill separately for the transcription and text-model calls made with the keys you supply.

How much RAM does Speakr need?

The manifest asks for 2 CPU cores, 4096 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk, and real sizing depends on recording volume and concurrent processing. That floor is why this page sells the 16 GB plan rather than the 6 GB one.

Can you self-host Speakr with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Speakr Docker hosting without the setup: the learnedmachine/speakr 0.10.5-alpha image pinned by digest, a generated administrator password and session secret, two named volumes and HTTPS on your domain, while the transcription provider stays external.

Does Speakr include transcription credits?

No. You supply your own OpenAI transcription key and OpenRouter text-model key at install, and you remain responsible for usage and billing with those providers. The template uses gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize for transcription and openai/gpt-4o-mini for text.

Is my audio private in Speakr?

Recordings are stored on your server's volumes, but uploaded audio is sent to the configured transcription provider and transcript text may be sent to the text-model provider. Review each provider's privacy, retention and billing terms before you deploy.

Which audio formats does Speakr accept?

Upload MP3 or M4A recordings. WAV uploads fail with the default gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize model. The template raises the nginx limit to 300 MB per upload, and a higher limit set in Speakr's Admin Settings is still capped there.

How do I sign in to Speakr?

Sign in with the administrator email you entered, not the username admin, and the generated password from your credentials. Public registration is disabled, so create further users from Speakr's administrator interface and grant administrator rights sparingly.

How do I back up Speakr?

Back up speakr_uploads and speakr_instance together while transcription jobs are stopped. The first holds recorded audio and the second the database and generated files. A full restore also needs the same stable session secret, so keep it with the backup.

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How do I upgrade Speakr?

The install stays on 0.10.5-alpha until you adopt a newer template version. Stop active jobs, back up both volumes and test the migration on a restored copy first, because a migrated database may not downgrade safely. Nothing upgrades the app automatically.

Is there a Speakr cloud service I can use?

This page is your own Speakr cloud: a dedicated Cloud VPS running the open-source app, with recordings and the database on volumes of your own. Nobody else shares it, though transcription still uses the external provider you configure.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.