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Both cover transcription & show notes. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Alitu | Trint | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $38 | From $79 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on | Web | Not stated |
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Turns a raw recording into a finished episode
Alitu is podcast production for people who do not want to learn an audio editor. Drop a recording in and it levels the sound, adds the music you picked once, joins the segments and publishes to the hosts you already use. The editing it offers is text-based rather than waveform-based, which is the part that saves the hours. What it will not do is give you fine control over a mix, and that trade is the whole product.
Our note
The trade here is real and worth stating plainly: you are buying back the evenings and giving up fine control of the mix. If you already know a digital audio workstation, this is not for you.
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Transcription built for newsrooms
Trint transcribes and translates at newsroom scale, with live transcription from a phone, shared drives for a team and an editor that keeps text locked to audio while several people work in the same file. It is the dearest thing in this category by a distance. What that buys is unlimited volume under a fair-use cap, 50 languages in and 70 out.
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| Audio & Podcasting, Transcription & Show Notes |
| Transcription & Show Notes, Captions & Subtitles |
| Works with | Podcast | Podcast |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
This is the top of the market and priced like it. Unless several people are editing the same transcript, or the deadline is measured in minutes, Sonix or TurboScribe do the transcription for a fraction of the money.
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