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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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DeVoice
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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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ScriptMe
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Fast AI transcription and subtitling platform with broadcast-format exports for media and production teams.

172K visits/mo8.0K saves
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Scribewave AI
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GDPR-compliant AI speech-to-text tool for fast multilingual transcription, subtitling, and translation.

34K 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
Pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

No public pricing

Pay as you Go: $29/hour of audio or video uploaded
ScriptMe PRO: $45/month (3 hours/month included)
ScriptMe PRO: $450/year (3 hours/month included, 2 months free)

Free trial available

No public pricing

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

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
  • Faster-than-realtime AI transcription in multiple languages
  • Subtitle editor with custom fonts, color, and timing
  • Export to Avid, Adobe Premiere, Resolve, SRT, VTT, and STL formats
  • Automatic translation of transcripts
  • Team sharing and collaborative editing
  • Burned-in subtitle video export
  • AI transcription supporting 90+ languages
  • Word-audio synced editing interface
  • Automatic subtitle generation with SRT/VTT export
  • Translation of transcripts
  • AI assistant for summaries, chapterization, and Q&A with timecodes
  • GDPR-compliant, confidential file handling
  • 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
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
  • Post-production teams logging hours of raw footage quickly
  • Broadcasters subtitling TV shows and movies for multiple markets
  • Researchers transcribing large volumes of interview recordings
  • Podcasters and content creators generating YouTube subtitles
  • Journalists transcribing interviews quickly and accurately
  • Researchers processing qualitative interview recordings
  • Content creators generating subtitles for video
  • Language educators creating study materials from audio
  • 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
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