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Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.
AI transcription and subtitle tool converting audio/video to text in 30+ languages, no account needed, with a free first minute.
Audio/video transcription tool offering multilingual transcription, translation, subtitles, and toxicity flagging in 130+ languages.
Mac transcription app offering local or cloud AI models, speaker ID, translation, and multi-format export for recordings.
Pay-per-hour speech-to-text API claiming top accuracy at lower cost than Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and other major transcription providers.
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- ✦Real-time voice typing into any desktop application
- ✦Offline speech recognition for privacy
- ✦Transcription and translation in 99 languages
- ✦Automatic or manual punctuation modes
- ✦Push-to-talk dictation with customizable hotkeys
- ✦AI-assisted grammar, formatting and summarization templates
- ✦Audio/video file transcription with speaker diarization
- ✦Subtitle generation in SRT and VTT formats
- ✦Automatic AI transcription
- ✦No account required
- ✦30+ language support
- ✦SRT/VTT subtitle generation
- ✦Speaker detection and smart punctuation
- ✦Export to TXT, DOCX, PDF
- ✦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
- ✦Drag-and-drop transcription with no account required
- ✦Choice of local or cloud AI transcription engines
- ✦Local AI summarization powered by Llama
- ✦Translation into 20+ languages
- ✦Speaker identification/diarization
- ✦Support for video and audio formats including MP4, MOV, MP3, WAV
- ✦Export to TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown, CSV, or PDF
- ✦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)
- →Dictating documents and emails faster than typing
- →Transcribing recorded meetings or interviews into text
- →Generating subtitles for video content
- →Enabling hands-free computer use for accessibility needs
- →Working offline in privacy-sensitive environments
- →Transcribing interviews and meetings
- →Generating video subtitles
- →Podcast and lecture transcripts
- →Journalism and research
- →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
- →Transcribing podcasts or interviews with speaker labels
- →Creating video subtitles from recordings
- →Summarizing long meeting recordings privately on-device
- →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