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UniScribe
✓ verifiedFreemium
Converts uploaded or linked audio/video into text with AI summaries, mind maps, and multi-format export in 63 languages.
1.4M visits/mo
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Maestra
✓ verifiedFreemium
Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.
1.5M visits/mo
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Banva
✓ verifiedFreemium
Browser-based AI tool that generates, styles and burns subtitles and transcribes audio across 90+ languages.
15K visits/mo
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CaptionCreator
✓ verifiedPaid
AI subtitle/transcription tool (50+ languages) - but the service is shutting down, with new signups and payments disabled.
11K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/month (120 minutes/month, 3 files/day)
Basic: $6/month (1,200 minutes/month, $72/year billed yearly)
Standard: $12/month (3,000 minutes/month, $144/year billed yearly)
Pay As You Go: $12 (60 credits)
Lite: $23/mo (180 min)
Basic: $39/mo (360 min)
Premium: $79/mo (900 min)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)
Core features
- ✦Audio/video-to-text transcription from file upload or YouTube link
- ✦Support for 63 languages and 11 input file formats
- ✦Automatic AI summaries and visual mind maps
- ✦Speaker recognition and translation
- ✦Export to txt, pdf, docx, srt, csv, and vtt
- ✦Shareable transcript links
- ✦Automatic transcription with speakers and timestamps
- ✦Subtitle generation, translation and editing
- ✦AI dubbing with voice cloning and lip sync
- ✦Real-time transcription, translation and captioning
- ✦Text-to-speech voiceovers in 125+ languages
- ✦AI subtitle generation from video or audio
- ✦Translation across 90+ languages
- ✦Caption styling with fonts, animations and presets
- ✦Export as SRT, VTT, TXT or JSON
- ✦Burn subtitles directly into video
- ✦Fast parallel processing of long files
- ✦Auto-transcription to subtitles or text
- ✦Translate audio/video to English subtitles
- ✦50+ language support
- ✦Handles noisy and multilingual audio
- ✦Non-expiring credit-based usage
- ✦SRT and plain-text output
Use cases
- →Researchers transcribing interviews
- →Students converting lectures into notes and mind maps
- →Podcasters and creators generating subtitles
- →Professionals needing multilingual meeting transcripts
- →Subtitle and translate videos for global audiences
- →Transcribe meetings, interviews and media files
- →Dub audio and video into other languages
- →Caption live events and streams
- →Adding captions to marketing and social videos
- →Transcribing recordings and podcasts to text
- →Translating subtitles to reach global audiences
- →Styling on-brand captions for short-form content
- →Subtitling videos for creators
- →Translating video into English captions
- →Transcribing recordings to text
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