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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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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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SpeechPulse
✓ verifiedPaid
Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.
12K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
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)
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
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Transcribing recorded notes or memos
- →Converting short audio clips to text
- →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
- →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
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