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OmniTranscript
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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

Speech-to-text service for professionals needing fast, multilingual transcription of long-form audio and video with AI summaries.

85K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: unlimited, no sign-up
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

Free: $0/mo (3 files/day, 5-hour max duration)
Basic: $4.9/mo (billed yearly, 10 files/day)
Pro: $9.9/mo (billed yearly, unlimited files/day)
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)
  • Automated transcription claimed at 99.9% accuracy
  • Support for 98 languages
  • Uploads up to 5 hours per file
  • Speaker classification/diarization
  • AI-generated summaries of transcripts
  • Wide format support (MP3, MP4, WAV, MOV and more)
  • YouTube transcript generation
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
  • Transcribing medical consultations or patient notes
  • Documenting legal proceedings and depositions
  • Turning long interviews or lectures into searchable text
  • Summarizing sales or business meetings
  • Generating transcripts from YouTube videos for content repurposing
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