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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.
Audio/video transcription tool offering multilingual transcription, translation, subtitles, and toxicity flagging in 130+ languages.
Offline-capable Windows/macOS dictation app that types into any app in real time, supports 99 languages, and generates subtitles from media.
Free-to-start converter for turning uploaded files or YouTube videos into transcripts with AI summaries in 98+ languages.
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- ✦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
- ✦Transcribes audio/video files or YouTube URLs in 130+ languages
- ✦Automatic detection of multiple languages within a single recording
- ✦Speaker-wise segmented transcripts for multi-person recordings
- ✦Translation of transcripts between supported languages
- ✦SRT/VTT subtitle generation and PDF export
- ✦Real-time toxicity/inappropriate-content detection
- ✦Custom plans with multi-user collaboration and white-label options
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →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
- →Podcasters or webinar hosts needing quick transcripts and subtitles
- →Businesses translating video content into multiple languages
- →Researchers transcribing multi-speaker interviews
- →Teams needing content moderation flags on recorded media
- →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
- →Students and researchers converting lecture recordings to text
- →Creators repurposing YouTube video content into text form
- →Professionals needing quick AI summaries of long recordings