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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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reccloud.cn
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AI audio/video toolkit offering transcription, subtitle generation, translation, TTS, and watermark removal.
110K visits/mo
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Scribebuddy
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free-forward AI transcription and subtitling tool for audio, video, and podcasts in over 100 languages.
5.5K visits/mo
Pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
Free trial available
No public pricing
Limited-time offer: $16.99
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)
- ✦AI speech-to-text transcription with summarization
- ✦Video translation and dubbing across many languages
- ✦Multilingual subtitle generation and styling
- ✦Text-to-speech with cloned and regional voice options
- ✦AI watermark, logo, and subtitle removal from video
- ✦AI video generation from text prompts
- ✦Automatic video clip/highlight extraction
- ✦Vocal/instrumental separation from audio
- ✦AI transcription of audio, video, and live speech
- ✦Translation into 100+ languages and dialects
- ✦Automatic subtitle file creation
- ✦AI-generated summaries of transcribed content
- ✦Speaker recognition and timestamps for podcasts
- ✦Cross-platform support including Mac, Windows, and mobile
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
- →Content creators localizing videos for international audiences
- →Users needing quick meeting or lecture transcriptions
- →Creators generating narrated videos from text scripts
- →Developers integrating audio/video AI processing via API
- →Transcribing podcast episodes for accessibility and SEO
- →Converting business meeting recordings into text records
- →Generating subtitles for video content
- →Transcribing lecture recordings or voice memos for students
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