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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
✓ 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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Transcriptly
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Free-to-start converter for turning uploaded files or YouTube videos into transcripts with AI summaries in 98+ languages.

74K visits/mo
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transkrip.xyz
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Fast, low-cost Indonesian audio/video transcription service delivering high-accuracy text in under a minute per hour of recording.

3.5K visits/mo
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SpeechPulse
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Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.

12K visits/mo
Pricing
Transcription API: $0.16/hour
Transcription Lite: $0.03/hour

Free trial available

No public pricing

Free: $0/month (10 credits/month)
Hobby: $6/month billed as $72/year
Per-file transcription: Rp19.900 (single audio/video file, no subscription)

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
  • Audio/video/YouTube transcription
  • AI-generated summaries and highlights
  • Support for 98+ languages and formats
  • Credit-based free tier
  • API access
  • 45-day media file retention
  • High-accuracy transcription for Indonesian and 25+ other languages
  • Fast processing (under 1 minute for a 1-hour file)
  • Support for files up to 2GB and 6 hours long
  • Flat per-file pricing with no subscription
  • Payment via QRIS, e-wallet, or bank transfer
  • Real-time voice typing into any desktop application
  • Offline speech recognition for privacy
  • Transcription and translation in 99 languages
  • Automatic or manual punctuation modes
  • Push-to-talk dictation with customizable hotkeys
  • AI-assisted grammar, formatting and summarization templates
  • Audio/video file transcription with speaker diarization
  • Subtitle generation in SRT and VTT formats
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
  • Students and researchers converting lecture recordings to text
  • Creators repurposing YouTube video content into text form
  • Professionals needing quick AI summaries of long recordings
  • Students transcribing lecture recordings
  • Professionals transcribing meetings or interviews
  • Content creators generating text from long-form audio/video
  • Dictating documents and emails faster than typing
  • Transcribing recorded meetings or interviews into text
  • Generating subtitles for video content
  • Enabling hands-free computer use for accessibility needs
  • Working offline in privacy-sensitive environments
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