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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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Videotowords
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Speech-to-text transcription for video and audio, aimed at students, journalists, and researchers needing fast written records.

56K visits/mo
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AudioScribe.io
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AI transcription turning audio/video into searchable text, with speaker ID, AI summaries and a chat-with-your-transcript feature.

18K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: unlimited, no sign-up
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

Unlimited/Month: $19/month (unlimited transcriptions, 10-hour uploads)
Unlimited/Year: $16.58/month billed at $199/year (unlimited transcriptions, 10-hour uploads)

Free trial available

Individual: $0 (3 files/day, 25-min cap)
Standard: $19.99/mo (unlimited transcripts, 10-hr files)

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)
  • Transcribes video/audio files in 98+ languages
  • Supports common formats like MP3, WAV, MP4, and M4A
  • Provides AI-generated summaries of transcribed content
  • Offers an online text editor for reviewing and correcting transcripts
  • Exports transcripts as TXT, DOCX, or SRT
  • Audio and video transcription
  • Full-text search across transcripts
  • AI summaries and chat over content
  • Speaker identification
  • Export to TXT, SRT, VTT
  • 18-language support
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
  • Journalists transcribing interviews for timely reporting
  • Students converting lecture recordings into study notes
  • Podcasters generating transcripts for accessibility
  • Researchers transcribing interviews for citation and analysis
  • Meeting and interview notes
  • Podcast transcripts
  • Lecture and academic transcription
  • Reviewing recorded calls
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