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Best Speech-to-Text Software in 2026
Speech-to-text tools can turn live speech or recorded audio into text, with different options for capture and transcript access. Compare capture modes, offline transcription, and speaker labels, as well as supported languages, to see which capabilities fit your use. Desktop and mobile apps indicate where you can work, while API access may matter for connecting transcription to other software. Notta, Happy Scribe,…
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Notta turns meeting recordings and uploaded files into searchable transcripts, summaries, and action items.
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Rev AI
Rev AI is an API service for transcription and related audio-language processing.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI8.1Free plan - 5
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 - 6
Speechmatics
Speechmatics provides speech APIs for speech-to-text, voice agents, and text-to-speech, working with recorded files or live audio.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.9From $0.01 a month - 7
Happy Scribe
Happy Scribe is a transcription, subtitling, and translation service for recordings and meetings.
Free planAndroidiOSAPImacOS7.8From $8.50 a month - 8
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is a web and API platform for generating and working with speech, audio and other media.
Free planWebAPI7.6From $6 a month - 9
NVIDIA Riva
NVIDIA Riva is a GPU-accelerated SDK for building customizable Speech AI applications with real-time performance.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.6Free plan - 10
Gladia
Gladia is an audio service built around an API for recording, transcribing and enriching audio.
Free planWebAPImacOSWindows7.5From $0.20 a month - 11
MacWhisper
MacWhisper transcribes audio and video files, including interviews, voice memos, lectures, and subtitle material.
Free planiOSmacOS7.4€64 one-time - 12
Otter.ai
Otter.ai records and transcribes meetings, creating searchable text with summaries and action items.
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Transkriptor
Transkriptor is a transcription and translation service available on web, iOS, Android, desktop, and browser extensions.
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.3 - 14
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 - 15
Voice In
Free planExtensionLinuxmacOSWindows7.2From $59.99 a year - 16
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 - 17
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 - 18
Picovoice Leopard
Picovoice Leopard is an on-device speech-to-text engine for transcribing audio and video files, including recordings of interviews, meetings, calls,…
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Trint
Trint is a paid AI-powered platform for transcribing, editing, collaborating on and publishing audio and video.
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Vosk
Vosk is a free, open-source toolkit for offline speech recognition, intended as a practical library for applications.
Free planAndroidiOSAPILinux7.1Free plan - 21
TurboScribe
TurboScribe is a web service that converts audio and video into text in more than 98 languages.
Free planWeb6.9From $120 a year - 22
Tactiq
Tactiq is a meeting transcription tool that captures calls through an extension and produces transcripts, summaries, and action items.
Free planWebmacOS6.8From $8 a month - 23
Aiko
iOSmacOS6.7$24 one-time - 24
Azure AI Speech
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.7Free plan - 25
Spoke
Spoke is a free, open-source macOS dictation app that turns speech into text at the active cursor.
Free planmacOS6.5From $10 a month