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12 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
Transcription built for newsrooms
Trint at $79 is transcription built for newsrooms, with the editorial workflow that hourly transcription leaves out.
Works with Podcast
Unlimited transcription for ten dollars
TurboScribe keeps a free tier and its paid plan is unlimited transcription rather than billed by the hour, for somebody who transcribes often enough that a cap would bite.
Works with Podcast
Transcription built to land in an edit
Simon Says formats the transcript to drop straight into an editing timeline, starting at $20 with no free tier, built for a video editor rather than a researcher.
Works with Podcast
Transcription, subtitles and dubbing
Maestra at $23 adds subtitles and dubbing to the transcript, taking a recording further than text by the hour.
Works with Podcast
Speech to text you call as an API
AssemblyAI is an API to call from your own code rather than an app to log into, with a free tier, for a developer building transcription into a product.
Works with Podcast
Transcripts and subtitles in 60-plus languages
Happy Scribe covers more languages than Sonix's 54, with a free tier and an $8.50 plan, a subscription rather than Sonix's pay-by-the-hour shape.
Works with YouTube, Podcast
Subtitles, dubbing and voice cloning
Checksub adds dubbing and voice cloning on top of the transcript, starting at $12, for a video that needs to speak another language, not just read one.
Show notes and clips from one upload
Podsqueeze at $9 turns an upload into show notes and clips, built around an episode rather than raw transcription.
Works with YouTube, Podcast
Human transcription by the minute
Scribie sells human transcription by the minute, for audio where a machine pass will not be accurate enough.
Notes and clips from calls, free tier included
Grain pulls clips and notes out of a call automatically, with a free tier and a $15 plan, aimed at calls rather than the batch interview work Sonix bills by the hour.
Recordings and notes from every call, free to start
tl;dv records and takes notes on every call automatically, free to start, built for ongoing meetings rather than Sonix's occasional batch of interviews.
Meeting notes that write themselves
Fireflies.ai is built around meeting notes rather than long-form audio, with a free tier and an $18 plan, for calls more than interviews.
