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AI transcription turning audio/video into searchable text, with speaker ID, AI summaries and a chat-with-your-transcript feature.
Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.
Fast AI transcription and subtitling platform with broadcast-format exports for media and production teams.
GDPR-compliant AI speech-to-text tool for fast multilingual transcription, subtitling, and translation.
Pay-per-hour speech-to-text API claiming top accuracy at lower cost than Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and other major transcription providers.
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- ✦Audio and video transcription
- ✦Full-text search across transcripts
- ✦AI summaries and chat over content
- ✦Speaker identification
- ✦Export to TXT, SRT, VTT
- ✦18-language support
- ✦Real-time voice typing into any desktop application
- ✦Offline speech recognition for privacy
- ✦Transcription and translation in 99 languages
- ✦Automatic or manual punctuation modes
- ✦Push-to-talk dictation with customizable hotkeys
- ✦AI-assisted grammar, formatting and summarization templates
- ✦Audio/video file transcription with speaker diarization
- ✦Subtitle generation in SRT and VTT formats
- ✦Faster-than-realtime AI transcription in multiple languages
- ✦Subtitle editor with custom fonts, color, and timing
- ✦Export to Avid, Adobe Premiere, Resolve, SRT, VTT, and STL formats
- ✦Automatic translation of transcripts
- ✦Team sharing and collaborative editing
- ✦Burned-in subtitle video export
- ✦AI transcription supporting 90+ languages
- ✦Word-audio synced editing interface
- ✦Automatic subtitle generation with SRT/VTT export
- ✦Translation of transcripts
- ✦AI assistant for summaries, chapterization, and Q&A with timecodes
- ✦GDPR-compliant, confidential file handling
- ✦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)
- →Meeting and interview notes
- →Podcast transcripts
- →Lecture and academic transcription
- →Reviewing recorded calls
- →Dictating documents and emails faster than typing
- →Transcribing recorded meetings or interviews into text
- →Generating subtitles for video content
- →Enabling hands-free computer use for accessibility needs
- →Working offline in privacy-sensitive environments
- →Post-production teams logging hours of raw footage quickly
- →Broadcasters subtitling TV shows and movies for multiple markets
- →Researchers transcribing large volumes of interview recordings
- →Podcasters and content creators generating YouTube subtitles
- →Journalists transcribing interviews quickly and accurately
- →Researchers processing qualitative interview recordings
- →Content creators generating subtitles for video
- →Language educators creating study materials from audio
- →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