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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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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
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour
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Core features
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- →Transcribing interviews and meetings
- →Generating video subtitles
- →Podcast and lecture transcripts
- →Journalism and research
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