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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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TurboTranscript
✓ verifiedFree trial
Audio/video transcription tool offering multilingual transcription, translation, subtitles, and toxicity flagging in 130+ languages.
19K visits/mo
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AudioScribe.io
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI transcription turning audio/video into searchable text, with speaker ID, AI summaries and a chat-with-your-transcript feature.
18K visits/mo
Pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free trial available
Individual: $0 (3 files/day, 25-min cap)
Standard: $19.99/mo (unlimited transcripts, 10-hr files)
Free trial available
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)
- ✦Transcribes audio/video files or YouTube URLs in 130+ languages
- ✦Automatic detection of multiple languages within a single recording
- ✦Speaker-wise segmented transcripts for multi-person recordings
- ✦Translation of transcripts between supported languages
- ✦SRT/VTT subtitle generation and PDF export
- ✦Real-time toxicity/inappropriate-content detection
- ✦Custom plans with multi-user collaboration and white-label options
- ✦Audio and video transcription
- ✦Full-text search across transcripts
- ✦AI summaries and chat over content
- ✦Speaker identification
- ✦Export to TXT, SRT, VTT
- ✦18-language support
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
- →Podcasters or webinar hosts needing quick transcripts and subtitles
- →Businesses translating video content into multiple languages
- →Researchers transcribing multi-speaker interviews
- →Teams needing content moderation flags on recorded media
- →Meeting and interview notes
- →Podcast transcripts
- →Lecture and academic transcription
- →Reviewing recorded calls
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