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Speech to Note
✓ verifiedFreemium
Cross-platform voice-note app that records speech and converts it into organized, AI-formatted transcripts and summaries in 100+ languages.
6.9K saves
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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
No public pricing
Free trial available
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Voice recording with instant AI transcription
- ✦200+ selectable note output formats
- ✦Support for 100+ languages
- ✦Offline recording and note-saving mode
- ✦Folder and tag organization for notes
- ✦Sharing notes via link or export
- ✦Powered by multiple LLMs (e.g., GPT-5, Claude, Llama)
- ✦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
- →Capturing lecture or class notes for students
- →Recording and organizing meeting notes for professionals
- →Drafting podcast scripts or ideas by voice
- →Turning interviews into structured text for journalists
- →Quick clinical note capture for doctors
- →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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