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GDPR-compliant AI transcription in 100+ languages, aimed at journalists, researchers and teams needing accurate speech-to-text.
Fast AI transcription and subtitling platform with broadcast-format exports for media and production teams.
Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.
Free-to-start converter for turning uploaded files or YouTube videos into transcripts with AI summaries in 98+ languages.
Pay-per-hour speech-to-text API claiming top accuracy at lower cost than Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and other major transcription providers.
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Free trial available
- ✦AI speech-to-text in 100+ languages
- ✦Automatic speaker labels
- ✦AI summaries of transcripts
- ✦Bulk file uploading
- ✦Project organization and SRT export
- ✦iOS and Android recorder app
- ✦Faster-than-realtime AI transcription in multiple languages
- ✦Subtitle editor with custom fonts, color, and timing
- ✦Export to Avid, Adobe Premiere, Resolve, SRT, VTT, and STL formats
- ✦Automatic translation of transcripts
- ✦Team sharing and collaborative editing
- ✦Burned-in subtitle video export
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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)
- →Transcribing interviews for newsrooms
- →Academic research recordings
- →Legal and government documentation
- →Podcast and content transcripts
- →Post-production teams logging hours of raw footage quickly
- →Broadcasters subtitling TV shows and movies for multiple markets
- →Researchers transcribing large volumes of interview recordings
- →Podcasters and content creators generating YouTube subtitles
- →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
- →Students and researchers converting lecture recordings to text
- →Creators repurposing YouTube video content into text form
- →Professionals needing quick AI summaries of long recordings
- →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