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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.
AI transcription platform that turns audio, video and YouTube links into text and subtitles, with speaker labels and 100+ languages.
Free-to-start converter for turning uploaded files or YouTube videos into transcripts with AI summaries in 98+ languages.
Speech-to-text transcription for video and audio, aimed at students, journalists, and researchers needing fast written records.
Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →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
- →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
- →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