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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
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VideoToWords
✓ verifiedFreemium

Speech-to-text transcription for video and audio, aimed at students, journalists, and researchers needing fast written records.

56K visits/mo
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ScriptMe
✓ verifiedPaid

Fast AI transcription and subtitling platform with broadcast-format exports for media and production teams.

172K visits/mo8.0K saves
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ecango.com
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI transcription and translation tool that converts audio and video to text in 90+ languages within seconds.

1.2K visits/mo
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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
Pricing
Limited-time offer: $16.99
Unlimited/Month: $19/month (unlimited transcriptions, 10-hour uploads)
Unlimited/Year: $16.58/month billed at $199/year (unlimited transcriptions, 10-hour uploads)

Free trial available

Pay as you Go: $29/hour of audio or video uploaded
ScriptMe PRO: $45/month (3 hours/month included)
ScriptMe PRO: $450/year (3 hours/month included, 2 months free)

Free trial available

No public pricing

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

Free trial available

Core features
  • 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
  • Transcribes video/audio files in 98+ languages
  • Supports common formats like MP3, WAV, MP4, and M4A
  • Provides AI-generated summaries of transcribed content
  • Offers an online text editor for reviewing and correcting transcripts
  • Exports transcripts as TXT, DOCX, or SRT
  • 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
  • AI speech-to-text transcription
  • Translation into 90+ languages
  • Export to DOCX, PDF or text
  • Fast, seconds-long processing
  • Free start, no credit card
  • Industry-focused workflows
  • 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)
Use cases
  • 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
  • Journalists transcribing interviews for timely reporting
  • Students converting lecture recordings into study notes
  • Podcasters generating transcripts for accessibility
  • Researchers transcribing interviews for citation and analysis
  • 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
  • Transcribing meetings and interviews
  • Subtitling and translating media
  • Legal deposition and proceeding records
  • Medical documentation
  • 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
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