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Minimal web tool that transcribes uploaded audio files up to 10MB using OpenAI Whisper; a Pro tier is waitlisted.
Pay-per-hour speech-to-text API claiming top accuracy at lower cost than Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and other major transcription providers.
Chinese AI audio/video toolkit offering transcription, subtitle generation, translation, TTS, and watermark removal.
Free-to-start converter for turning uploaded files or YouTube videos into transcripts with AI summaries in 98+ languages.
Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.
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- ✦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
- ✦Audio/video/YouTube transcription
- ✦AI-generated summaries and highlights
- ✦Support for 98+ languages and formats
- ✦Credit-based free tier
- ✦API access
- ✦45-day media file retention
- ✦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
- →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
- →Students and researchers converting lecture recordings to text
- →Creators repurposing YouTube video content into text form
- →Professionals needing quick AI summaries of long recordings
- →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