TurboScribe

TurboScribe transcribes without counting minutes, which is unusual at this price and is the whole argument for it. A single file can run to ten hours and fifty can be queued at once. Three files a day are free, so the sensible move is to transcribe three of your own and judge the accuracy before paying anybody, here or elsewhere.

Free gives three transcripts a day, files up to thirty minutes, one at a time and at lower priority. Unlimited is $10 a month, or $120 billed yearly, and lifts every one of those limits: ten-hour files, fifty at once, every transcription mode, unlimited storage, bulk export and top priority. Two tiers and no add-ons is unusual in transcription, and it is why the comparison with the rest of this category is quick.

Anybody with a backlog of audio and video who is tired of buying minutes: a podcaster catching up on old episodes, a researcher with interviews, a YouTuber subtitling an archive. For one file a month the free tier covers it.