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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.
GDPR-compliant AI transcription in 100+ languages, aimed at journalists, researchers and teams needing accurate speech-to-text.
GDPR-compliant AI speech-to-text tool for fast multilingual transcription, subtitling, and translation.
AI transcription and translation tool that converts audio and video to text in 90+ languages within seconds.
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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Free trial available
- ✦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
- ✦AI speech-to-text in 100+ languages
- ✦Automatic speaker labels
- ✦AI summaries of transcripts
- ✦Bulk file uploading
- ✦Project organization and SRT export
- ✦iOS and Android recorder app
- ✦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
- ✦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)
- →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 for newsrooms
- →Academic research recordings
- →Legal and government documentation
- →Podcast and content transcripts
- →Journalists transcribing interviews quickly and accurately
- →Researchers processing qualitative interview recordings
- →Content creators generating subtitles for video
- →Language educators creating study materials from audio
- →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