Superwhisper turns speech into polished, formatted text across applications, including apps where text can be entered.
Alternatives to Gladia
Gladia is designed for building audio workflows around an API: it records, transcribes, and enriches audio, with both asynchronous jobs and real-time streaming. Its language detection and switching support more than 100 languages, and its audio tools include speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, PII redaction, entity detection, and audio-to-LLM processing. Developers can use Python or Node.js SDKs, REST uploads, WebSocket streaming, and named integrations. A separate…
Notta turns meeting recordings and uploaded files into searchable transcripts, summaries, and action items.
Rev AI is an API service for transcription and related audio-language processing.
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Whisper
Whisper is a free, open-source speech recognition model for multilingual transcription, translation, language identification, and voice activity detection.
Free planOpen sourceAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted8.1$0.01 usage-based - 5

Happy Scribe
Happy Scribe is a transcription, subtitling, and translation service for recordings and meetings.
Free planAndroidiOSAPImacOS7.8From $8.50 a month - 6
Simon Says
Simon Says uses speech recognition AI to transcribe audio and video, with translation and dubbing also available.
Free planiOSWebExtensionmacOS7.7From $15 a month - 7

ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is a web and API platform for generating and working with speech, audio and other media.
Free planWebAPI7.6From $6 a month - 8
Express Scribe
Express Scribe is a professional audio player designed to help transcribe recordings on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSWindows7.5Free plan - 9

MacWhisper
MacWhisper transcribes audio and video files, including interviews, voice memos, lectures, and subtitle material.
Free planiOSmacOS7.3€64 one-time - 10

Transkriptor
Transkriptor is a transcription and translation service available on web, iOS, Android, desktop, and browser extensions.
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.3 - 11

Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Transcribe is a managed speech-recognition service that turns live audio and recorded media into text.
Free planWebAPI7.2$0.01 usage-based - 12

oTranscribe
oTranscribe is a free web app for manually transcribing recorded interviews on desktop computers.
Free planOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted7.2Free plan - 13

AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI provides Voice AI models and APIs for speech-to-text, speech understanding, and voice applications.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted7.1From $0.15 a month - 14
f4transkript
f4transkript supports automatic and manual transcription, correction, and qualitative analysis; f4 now brings f4transkript, f4x, and f4analyse together in one interface.
WebLinuxmacOSWindows7.1 - 15
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text converts audio into text and provides APIs for adding speech recognition to applications.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted7.1From $0.02 a month - 16
Picovoice Leopard
Picovoice Leopard is an on-device speech-to-text engine for transcribing audio and video files, including recordings of interviews, meetings, calls,…
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.1 - 17
Trint
Trint is a paid AI-powered platform for transcribing, editing, collaborating on and publishing audio and video.
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.1 - 18
Vosk
Vosk is a free, open-source toolkit for offline speech recognition, intended as a practical library for applications.
Free planAndroidiOSAPILinux7.1Free plan - 19

IBM Watson Speech to Text
Free planAPISelf-hosted7.0$0.02 usage-based - 20
InqScribe
InqScribe is transcription software for working with audio and video: users can annotate recordings, edit transcripts, and analyze media.
Free planmacOSWindows7.0$10 one-time - 21

Transcribe by Wreally
WebLinuxmacOSWindows7.0From $20 a year - 22
easytranscript
easytranscript is transcription software for turning audio and video files into text, with AI transcription and support for rules such as GAT.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.9From €5 a month - 23

FileToText
FileToText converts uploaded audio and video files into transcripts, with speaker labels, per-word timestamps, and synced audio playback.
Free planAPI6.9From $10 a month - 24

Maestra
Maestra provides AI tools for transcribing, translating, subtitling, dubbing, and voicing audio and video, both on demand and in real time.
WebAPIExtension6.9From $23 a month - 25

TurboScribe
TurboScribe is a web service that converts audio and video into text in more than 98 languages.
Free planWeb6.9From $120 a year - 26

noScribe
noScribe is a free, open-source desktop app for transcribing interviews and other sensitive recordings with AI models running on the user's computer.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.8Free plan - 27

Aiko
iOSmacOS6.7$24 one-time - 28

Azure AI Speech
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.7Free plan - 29

Sarvam AI Speech to Text
WebAPISelf-hosted6.7From ₹30 a month - 30
HyperTRANSCRIBE
macOSWindows6.6


