Whisper is a free, open-source speech recognition model for multilingual transcription, translation, language identification, and voice activity detection.
Alternatives to Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
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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Superwhisper
Superwhisper turns speech into polished, formatted text across applications, including apps where text can be entered.
Free planAndroidiOSAPILinux8.7From $84.99 a year - 5

Happy Scribe
Happy Scribe is a transcription, subtitling, and translation service for recordings and meetings.
Free planAndroidiOSAPImacOS8.5From $8.50 a month - 6
Express Scribe
Express Scribe is a professional audio player designed to help transcribe recordings on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSWindows8.2Free plan - 7
Simon Says
Simon Says uses speech recognition AI to transcribe audio and video, with translation and dubbing also available.
Free planiOSWebExtensionmacOS8.1From $15 a month - 8

Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Transcribe is a managed speech-recognition service that turns live audio and recorded media into text.
Free planWebAPI8.0$0.01 usage-based - 9

Gladia
Gladia is an audio service built around an API for recording, transcribing and enriching audio.
Free planWebAPImacOSWindows8.0From $0.20 a month - 10

Transkriptor
Transkriptor is a transcription and translation service available on web, iOS, Android, desktop, and browser extensions.
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.9 - 11

AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI provides Voice AI models and APIs for speech-to-text, speech understanding, and voice applications.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted7.8From $0.15 a month - 12

MacWhisper
MacWhisper transcribes audio and video files, including interviews, voice memos, lectures, and subtitle material.
Free planiOSmacOS7.8€64 one-time - 13

IBM Watson Speech to Text
Free planAPISelf-hosted7.7$0.02 usage-based - 14
Trint
Trint is a paid AI-powered platform for transcribing, editing, collaborating on and publishing audio and video.
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.7 - 15

ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is a web and API platform for generating and working with speech, audio and other media.
Free planWebAPI7.7From $6 a month - 16
Vosk
Vosk is a free, open-source toolkit for offline speech recognition, intended as a practical library for applications.
Free planAndroidiOSAPILinux7.6Free plan - 17

TurboScribe
TurboScribe is a web service that converts audio and video into text in more than 98 languages.
Free planWeb7.5From $120 a year - 18

FileToText
FileToText converts uploaded audio and video files into transcripts, with speaker labels, per-word timestamps, and synced audio playback.
Free planAPI7.4From $10 a month - 19
f4transkript
f4transkript supports automatic and manual transcription, correction, and qualitative analysis; f4 now brings f4transkript, f4x, and f4analyse together in one interface.
WebLinuxmacOSWindows7.4 - 20

oTranscribe
oTranscribe is a free web app for manually transcribing recorded interviews on desktop computers.
Free planOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted7.4Free plan - 21

Maestra
Maestra provides AI tools for transcribing, translating, subtitling, dubbing, and voicing audio and video, both on demand and in real time.
WebAPIExtension7.3From $23 a month - 22

Transcribe by Wreally
WebLinuxmacOSWindows7.3From $20 a year - 23
InqScribe
InqScribe is transcription software for working with audio and video: users can annotate recordings, edit transcripts, and analyze media.
Free planmacOSWindows7.3$10 one-time - 24
Picovoice Leopard
Picovoice Leopard is an on-device speech-to-text engine for transcribing audio and video files, including recordings of interviews, meetings, calls,…
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.3 - 25

Sarvam AI Speech to Text
WebAPISelf-hosted7.2From ₹30 a month - 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 planLinuxmacOSWindows7.1Free plan - 27
easytranscript
easytranscript is transcription software for turning audio and video files into text, with AI transcription and support for rules such as GAT.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows7.1From €5 a month - 28

Aiko
iOSmacOS7.0$24 one-time - 29

Soniox
Soniox is transcription and translation software available through an API, with support for 60 languages, speaker identification, speaker labels, and timestamps.
Free planAPI6.8From $19.99 a month - 30

Buzz
Buzz is a free desktop application for transcribing and translating audio offline on a personal computer using OpenAI's Whisper.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.8Free plan


