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convert.express

MCP serverVerified domain · convert.expressRemote● LiveFree to try

Transcribe audio and video to text, SRT or VTT. Summaries, translation. Optional OAuth sign-in.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to convert.express. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http convert-express https://convert.express/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • get_service_info — Call this first when you are new to convert.express, before quoting a price to your user, or when unsure whether a file, link or language is
  • estimate_cost — Price for transcribing a recording of a given length (EUR, plus price_usdc when USDC is on). For a robot linked to its user's account it als
  • transcribe_url — Start transcribing a media file from a public link (direct file link, YouTube video or Simplecast podcast episode page). Returns job_id and
  • transcribe_file — Start transcribing an audio or video file your user attached in a ChatGPT chat. ChatGPT fills in a temporary download link and convert.expre
  • create_upload — For a file that is neither a public link nor attached in a ChatGPT chat (for example a file attached in another chat app). Returns upload_ur
  • start_transcription — Call after the PUT to upload_url has finished. Checks the file arrived and queues it.
  • get_job — Status and results of one job whose job_id you have (from transcribe_url, transcribe_file or create_upload; list_jobs finds a lost job_id).
  • pay_job — Pay for the full transcript of a job whose get_job status is "payment_required", with USDC on Tempo or a card your user shared through a Str
  • list_jobs — Your jobs that still exist (jobs are deleted within 24 hours of being created), newest first, with their status.
  • create_share_link — A public web page with the results of a completed job, for your user to open or send to others. Anyone with the link can see it until the jo
  • delete_job — Delete the uploaded file, the transcript and all other results of a job right away, instead of waiting for the automatic deletion within 24
  • request_summary — Ask for an AI summary or action items of a completed job. Returns at once; the result appears in get_job ("summary" / "action_items").
  • translate — Translate the transcript, subtitles (timecodes kept), summary or action items of a completed job into another language. Returns at once; the
  • send_feedback — Tell the convert.express team about a bug, a missing feature, or a question — from you or your user. A human reads every message; there is n

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