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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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Salad Transcription API
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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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AudioScribe.io
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI transcription turning audio/video into searchable text, with speaker ID, AI summaries and a chat-with-your-transcript feature.

18K visits/mo
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ScriptMe
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Fast AI transcription and subtitling platform with broadcast-format exports for media and production teams.

172K visits/mo8.0K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

No public pricing

Individual: $0 (3 files/day, 25-min cap)
Standard: $19.99/mo (unlimited transcripts, 10-hr files)

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meeting and interview notes
  • Podcast transcripts
  • Lecture and academic transcription
  • Reviewing recorded calls
  • 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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