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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
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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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