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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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Yescribe.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

Speech-to-text service for professionals needing fast, multilingual transcription of long-form audio and video with AI summaries.

85K visits/mo
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Transcriptly
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free-to-start converter for turning uploaded files or YouTube videos into transcripts with AI summaries in 98+ languages.

74K 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

Free: $0/mo (3 files/day, 5-hour max duration)
Basic: $4.9/mo (billed yearly, 10 files/day)
Pro: $9.9/mo (billed yearly, unlimited files/day)
Free: $0/month (10 credits/month)
Hobby: $6/month billed as $72/year

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)
  • Automated transcription claimed at 99.9% accuracy
  • Support for 98 languages
  • Uploads up to 5 hours per file
  • Speaker classification/diarization
  • AI-generated summaries of transcripts
  • Wide format support (MP3, MP4, WAV, MOV and more)
  • YouTube transcript generation
  • 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
  • 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
  • Transcribing medical consultations or patient notes
  • Documenting legal proceedings and depositions
  • Turning long interviews or lectures into searchable text
  • Summarizing sales or business meetings
  • Generating transcripts from YouTube videos for content repurposing
  • Students and researchers converting lecture recordings to text
  • Creators repurposing YouTube video content into text form
  • Professionals needing quick AI summaries of long recordings
  • 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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