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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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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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Scribewave
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GDPR-compliant AI speech-to-text tool for fast multilingual transcription, subtitling, and translation.
34K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
Free trial available
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
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)
- ✦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
- ✦AI transcription supporting 90+ languages
- ✦Word-audio synced editing interface
- ✦Automatic subtitle generation with SRT/VTT export
- ✦Translation of transcripts
- ✦AI assistant for summaries, chapterization, and Q&A with timecodes
- ✦GDPR-compliant, confidential file handling
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
- →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
- →Journalists transcribing interviews quickly and accurately
- →Researchers processing qualitative interview recordings
- →Content creators generating subtitles for video
- →Language educators creating study materials from audio
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