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OmniTranscript
✓ verifiedFreemium
OmniTranscript transcribes public TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube videos to timestamped text without sign-up and exports transcripts in SRT, WebVTT, and TXT formats.
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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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SoundWise.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free, browser-based audio and video transcription tool for anyone wanting quick text conversion without signup.
180K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: unlimited, no sign-up
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
Free trial available
Free: $0 (unlimited transcription, no signup required)
Core features
- ✦Timestamped transcripts
- ✦Export SRT/WebVTT/TXT
- ✦No account required
- ✦No data retention
- ✦Mobile friendly
- ✦Handles slang and fast speech
- ✦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)
- ✦Drag-and-drop audio/video upload
- ✦Automatic speech-to-text transcription
- ✦Supports multiple audio and video formats
- ✦No signup or software download needed
- ✦Multi-language interface
Use cases
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- →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
- →Quickly transcribing an interview recording
- →Converting a lecture video to text notes
- →Turning podcast audio into a written article
- →Getting a transcript without installing an app
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