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Memo.ac
✓ verifiedFreemium
Cross-platform desktop app that transcribes and translates audio/video into text, subtitles and notes, running locally on GPU.
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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
Memo Basic: Free
Memo Pro: $25.99/year
Memo Believer: $49.99/lifetime
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Audio/video to text transcription
- ✦Translation across 90+ languages
- ✦Speaker diarization
- ✦Local, offline GPU-accelerated processing
- ✦Subtitle, Markdown and Notion export
- ✦AI summaries (bring your own key)
- ✦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 meetings and interviews
- →Subtitling and translating videos
- →Turning podcasts into text notes
- →Private, on-device transcription
- →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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