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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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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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TranscribeGo
✓ verifiedFreemium
Fast AI transcription tool for uploaded audio/video and social links (YouTube, TikTok, WhatsApp) with multi-language support.
14K 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
Pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
Free trial available
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)
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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)
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
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 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
- →Users forwarding voice notes for quick text conversion
- →Content creators transcribing social video links
- →Students and professionals converting recordings to text
- →Journalists transcribing interviews quickly and accurately
- →Researchers processing qualitative interview recordings
- →Content creators generating subtitles for video
- →Language educators creating study materials from audio
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