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Dictaphone
✓ verifiedFree
Minimal web tool that transcribes uploaded audio files up to 10MB using OpenAI Whisper; a Pro tier is waitlisted.
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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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VideoToWords
✓ verifiedFreemium
Speech-to-text transcription for video and audio, aimed at students, journalists, and researchers needing fast written records.
56K visits/mo
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ScriptMe
✓ verifiedPaid
Fast AI transcription and subtitling platform with broadcast-format exports for media and production teams.
172K visits/mo8.0K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Unlimited/Month: $19/month (unlimited transcriptions, 10-hour uploads)
Unlimited/Year: $16.58/month billed at $199/year (unlimited transcriptions, 10-hour uploads)
Free trial available
Pay as you Go: $29/hour of audio or video uploaded
ScriptMe PRO: $45/month (3 hours/month included)
ScriptMe PRO: $450/year (3 hours/month included, 2 months free)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Audio-to-text via OpenAI Whisper
- ✦Supports mp3, wav, m4a, ogg and flac
- ✦Drag-and-drop upload up to 10MB
- ✦Waitlisted Pro tier
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Transcribing recorded notes or memos
- →Converting short audio clips to text
- →Transcribing meetings and interviews
- →Repurposing podcasts and videos
- →Generating subtitles and accessible transcripts
- →Cleaning noisy audio before transcription
- →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
- →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
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