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AI transcription platform that turns audio, video and YouTube links into text and subtitles, with speaker labels and 100+ languages.
Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.
Mac transcription app offering local or cloud AI models, speaker ID, translation, and multi-format export for recordings.
Speech-to-text transcription for video and audio, aimed at students, journalists, and researchers needing fast written records.
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- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Drag-and-drop transcription with no account required
- ✦Choice of local or cloud AI transcription engines
- ✦Local AI summarization powered by Llama
- ✦Translation into 20+ languages
- ✦Speaker identification/diarization
- ✦Support for video and audio formats including MP4, MOV, MP3, WAV
- ✦Export to TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown, CSV, or PDF
- ✦Transcribes video/audio files in 98+ languages
- ✦Supports common formats like MP3, WAV, MP4, and M4A
- ✦Provides AI-generated summaries of transcribed content
- ✦Offers an online text editor for reviewing and correcting transcripts
- ✦Exports transcripts as TXT, DOCX, or SRT
- →Transcribing meetings and interviews
- →Repurposing podcasts and videos
- →Generating subtitles and accessible transcripts
- →Cleaning noisy audio before transcription
- →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
- →Transcribing podcasts or interviews with speaker labels
- →Creating video subtitles from recordings
- →Summarizing long meeting recordings privately on-device
- →Journalists transcribing interviews for timely reporting
- →Students converting lecture recordings into study notes
- →Podcasters generating transcripts for accessibility
- →Researchers transcribing interviews for citation and analysis