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Dictaphone
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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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TranscribeGo
✓ verifiedFreemium

Fast AI transcription tool for uploaded audio/video and social links (YouTube, TikTok, WhatsApp) with multi-language support.

14K 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)
  • Transcription from uploaded files or pasted links
  • WhatsApp and Telegram voice message support via bot
  • Support for 90+ languages
  • Coverage of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms
  • Free tier with limited monthly minutes
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
  • Users forwarding voice notes for quick text conversion
  • Content creators transcribing social video links
  • Students and professionals converting recordings to text
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