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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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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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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

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

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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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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