Grok transcription API cuts cost to ten cents per hour

Dictate manuscripts and record interviews affordably with twice the accuracy now.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Mon, Sep 21 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 69/100 (Tailwinds building).

Coral Wire selects stories by a Claude-graded relevance score and writes each headline and one-line summary with an Anthropic Claude model from the linked source. Story gathering is not AI: it is a fixed set of feeds and dockets. The linked original is always the authority.

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