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Salad Transcription API
✓ verifiedPaid

Pay-per-hour speech-to-text API claiming top accuracy at lower cost than Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and other major transcription providers.

614K visits/mo
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DeVoice
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI transcription platform that turns audio, video and YouTube links into text and subtitles, with speaker labels and 100+ languages.

319K visits/mo
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Podnotes
✓ verifiedFree trial

Transcribes podcasts and YouTube videos and auto-generates summaries, show notes, and social posts across 19+ languages.

133K visits/mo1.7K saves
Pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

No public pricing

Solo Cast: $29/mo (350 min transcription)
Plus: $49/mo (700 min transcription)
Studio: $79/mo (700 min transcription, extra tools)
Network: $119/mo (1800 min transcription)
Agency: $199/mo

Free trial available

Core features
  • Pay-per-hour transcription pricing, no flat subscription
  • Benchmark accuracy comparisons against major competitors
  • Support for 8 languages with English translation
  • Speaker identification and time-coded SRT output
  • Two speed/accuracy tiers (standard and Lite)
  • Audio and video to text transcription
  • SRT subtitles and speaker labels
  • YouTube link transcription
  • Support for 100+ languages
  • Background noise removal
  • AI voice generator and text-to-speech
  • Transcription with speaker-distinction diarization
  • AI-generated show notes, summaries and chapters
  • Repurposing into tweets, LinkedIn posts, newsletters and blogs
  • 100+ prompt style library for varied content tones
  • Chat with a podcast for referencing key points
  • Integrations with tools like Notion
Use cases
  • Teams running high-volume batch audio transcription on a budget
  • Developers wanting a lower-cost, benchmarked alternative to Deepgram/AssemblyAI/Azure
  • Workloads needing faster, lower-accuracy transcription via the Lite tier
  • Transcribing meetings and interviews
  • Repurposing podcasts and videos
  • Generating subtitles and accessible transcripts
  • Cleaning noisy audio before transcription
  • Podcasters growing audience via SEO-optimized blogs
  • Content creators repurposing episodes into social posts
  • Ghostwriters and agencies producing client content at scale
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