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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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DeVoice
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI transcription platform that turns audio, video and YouTube links into text and subtitles, with speaker labels and 100+ languages.

319K visits/mo
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Good Tape
✓ verifiedFreemium

GDPR-compliant AI transcription in 100+ languages, aimed at journalists, researchers and teams needing accurate speech-to-text.

203K 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
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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
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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)
  • Audio and video to text transcription
  • SRT subtitles and speaker labels
  • YouTube link transcription
  • Support for 100+ languages
  • Background noise removal
  • AI voice generator and text-to-speech
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 meetings and interviews
  • Repurposing podcasts and videos
  • Generating subtitles and accessible transcripts
  • Cleaning noisy audio before transcription
  • Transcribing interviews for newsrooms
  • Academic research recordings
  • Legal and government documentation
  • Podcast and content transcripts
  • Journalists transcribing interviews quickly and accurately
  • Researchers processing qualitative interview recordings
  • Content creators generating subtitles for video
  • Language educators creating study materials from audio
  • 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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