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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
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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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Transcriptly
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free-to-start converter for turning uploaded files or YouTube videos into transcripts with AI summaries in 98+ languages.

74K visits/mo
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Whisper Snapper for Mac
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Mac transcription app offering local or cloud AI models, speaker ID, translation, and multi-format export for recordings.

1.3K visits/mo
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Audiotype
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AI transcription and subtitle tool converting audio/video to text in 30+ languages, no account needed, with a free first minute.

10K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: unlimited, no sign-up
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

Free: $0/month (10 credits/month)
Hobby: $6/month billed as $72/year

No public pricing

Free trial available

No public pricing

Free trial available

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)
  • Audio/video/YouTube transcription
  • AI-generated summaries and highlights
  • Support for 98+ languages and formats
  • Credit-based free tier
  • API access
  • 45-day media file retention
  • 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
  • Automatic AI transcription
  • No account required
  • 30+ language support
  • SRT/VTT subtitle generation
  • Speaker detection and smart punctuation
  • Export to TXT, DOCX, PDF
Use cases
  • 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
  • Students and researchers converting lecture recordings to text
  • Creators repurposing YouTube video content into text form
  • Professionals needing quick AI summaries of long recordings
  • Transcribing podcasts or interviews with speaker labels
  • Creating video subtitles from recordings
  • Summarizing long meeting recordings privately on-device
  • Transcribing interviews and meetings
  • Generating video subtitles
  • Podcast and lecture transcripts
  • Journalism and research
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