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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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Transcriptly
✓ verifiedFreemium
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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Yescribe.ai: Convert Audio&Video to Text
✓ verifiedFreemium
Speech-to-text service for professionals needing fast, multilingual transcription of long-form audio and video with AI summaries.
85K 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
Free: $0/mo (3 files/day, 5-hour max duration)
Basic: $4.9/mo (billed yearly, 10 files/day)
Pro: $9.9/mo (billed yearly, unlimited files/day)
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
- ✦Automated transcription claimed at 99.9% accuracy
- ✦Support for 98 languages
- ✦Uploads up to 5 hours per file
- ✦Speaker classification/diarization
- ✦AI-generated summaries of transcripts
- ✦Wide format support (MP3, MP4, WAV, MOV and more)
- ✦YouTube transcript generation
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
- →Transcribing medical consultations or patient notes
- →Documenting legal proceedings and depositions
- →Turning long interviews or lectures into searchable text
- →Summarizing sales or business meetings
- →Generating transcripts from YouTube videos for content repurposing
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