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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
✓ verifiedPaid
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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reccloud.cn
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AI audio/video toolkit offering transcription, subtitle generation, translation, TTS, and watermark removal.
110K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
Free trial available
No public pricing
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)
- ✦AI speech-to-text transcription with summarization
- ✦Video translation and dubbing across many languages
- ✦Multilingual subtitle generation and styling
- ✦Text-to-speech with cloned and regional voice options
- ✦AI watermark, logo, and subtitle removal from video
- ✦AI video generation from text prompts
- ✦Automatic video clip/highlight extraction
- ✦Vocal/instrumental separation from audio
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
- →Content creators localizing videos for international audiences
- →Users needing quick meeting or lecture transcriptions
- →Creators generating narrated videos from text scripts
- →Developers integrating audio/video AI processing via API
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