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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
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DeVoice
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI transcription platform that turns audio, video and YouTube links into text and subtitles, with speaker labels and 100+ languages.

319K visits/mo
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Scribebuddy
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free-forward AI transcription and subtitling tool for audio, video, and podcasts in over 100 languages.

5.5K visits/mo
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Whisper Snapper for Mac
✓ verifiedFreemium

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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ecango.com
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI transcription and translation tool that converts audio and video to text in 90+ languages within seconds.

1.2K visits/mo
Pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

No public pricing

Limited-time offer: $16.99

No public pricing

Free trial available

No public pricing

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)
  • Audio and video to text transcription
  • SRT subtitles and speaker labels
  • YouTube link transcription
  • Support for 100+ languages
  • Background noise removal
  • AI voice generator and text-to-speech
  • AI transcription of audio, video, and live speech
  • Translation into 100+ languages and dialects
  • Automatic subtitle file creation
  • AI-generated summaries of transcribed content
  • Speaker recognition and timestamps for podcasts
  • Cross-platform support including Mac, Windows, and mobile
  • 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
  • AI speech-to-text transcription
  • Translation into 90+ languages
  • Export to DOCX, PDF or text
  • Fast, seconds-long processing
  • Free start, no credit card
  • Industry-focused workflows
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 meetings and interviews
  • Repurposing podcasts and videos
  • Generating subtitles and accessible transcripts
  • Cleaning noisy audio before transcription
  • Transcribing podcast episodes for accessibility and SEO
  • Converting business meeting recordings into text records
  • Generating subtitles for video content
  • Transcribing lecture recordings or voice memos for students
  • Transcribing podcasts or interviews with speaker labels
  • Creating video subtitles from recordings
  • Summarizing long meeting recordings privately on-device
  • Transcribing meetings and interviews
  • Subtitling and translating media
  • Legal deposition and proceeding records
  • Medical documentation
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