2026 Best Speech-to-Text tools

Speech-to-text tools turn recordings, meetings, and live speech into searchable text. Compare transcription, dictation, and captioning options for your workflow.

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YouTube Transcript Extractor preview
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YouTube Transcript Extractor

Speech-to-Text

YouTube Transcript Extractor turns YouTube videos into text with captions or AI transcription, plus translation, exports, and API automation.

Freemium
Stage Captions preview
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Stage Captions

Speech-to-Text

Stage Captions is browser-based closed captioning software for live events, broadcasts, hybrid events, and presentations, with flexible screen and device output.

Freemium
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Sorinai

AI Meeting Assistant

Sorinai is a desktop AI notepad for meetings on Mac and Windows. It fills note templates during live calls, lets you ask an AI copilot questions mid-call, and offers a free Starter plan and paid team tiers.

Freemium
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VMEG AI

Speech-to-Text

VMEG AI is an AI video localization platform for translating, dubbing, subtitling, and adapting videos into 170+ languages, with self-service tools and managed human-assisted delivery for creators, marketers, educators, and teams.

Freemium
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Sayline

Speech-to-Text

Mac voice dictation with hotkeys, offline processing, and lifetime pricing

Freemium
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Attyn

AI Rewriter

Attyn is a macOS personal AI app that brings writing, dictation, screen questions, and visual explanations to the cursor. It helps people work across existing apps without copying text into a separate chat tab.

Freemium
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Yap

AI Notes Assistant

Yap is a voice journal for iPhone that turns spoken entries into tidy daily pages you can review later. It is designed for people who prefer talking to writing and want a private journaling workflow with on-device transcription.

Freemium
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Rev

AI Document Extraction

Rev is a legal AI transcription and investigative intelligence platform for lawyers, investigative teams, law enforcement, and court reporters. It turns audio, video, documents, and images into searchable transcripts and cited findings for case review and reporting.

Freemium
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Fireflies.ai

AI Notes Assistant

Fireflies.ai is an AI meeting assistant that records conversations, creates transcripts and summaries, and keeps team discussions searchable while connecting notes to tasks, CRM updates, and other work tools.

Freemium
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MiMo

AI Code Assistant

MiMo is Xiaomi’s AI model family and developer platform for agentic, multimodal, and speech AI, with demos, APIs, and resources.

Freemium
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Deepgram

Speech-to-Text

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent APIs for developers and enterprises.

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Genspark SecondBrain Note

AI Notes Assistant

Genspark SecondBrain Note is a card-sized AI voice recorder for capturing meetings, calls, consultations, and other conversations. It records offline, transfers audio through the Genspark App, and turns recordings into transcripts, summaries, key points, and action items.

Freemium
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Blurt

Speech-to-Text

Blurt is AssemblyAI’s voice-to-text dictation app for entering spoken words into the field or text destination where you are working. Hold a key, speak, and release it to send the dictated text onward.

Freemium
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Krisp

AI Meeting Assistant

Voice AI for clearer calls, transcription, summaries, and notes

Freemium
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HappyScribe

Speech-to-Text

HappyScribe turns audio and video into searchable text, subtitles, and translations in 150+ languages, with AI meeting notes and human-made workflows.

Freemium
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Fathom

AI Meeting Assistant

Fathom is an AI meeting notetaker that records, transcribes, and summarizes calls for individuals and teams, with searchable history and collaboration.

Freemium
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场辞

Speech-to-Text

场辞 is a speech-to-text subtitle tool for creating, editing, styling, and exporting video captions.

Freemium
Cartesia preview
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Cartesia

Speech-to-Text

Speech models and managed voice agents for teams building real-time voice experiences.

Freemium
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Speechmatics

Speech-to-Text

Speechmatics provides speech-to-text APIs for pre-recorded and real-time audio, with support for multilingual speech, multiple speakers, and voice-agent workflows. It is designed for teams building transcription and Voice AI applications.

Freemium
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Fish Audio

AI Voice Cloning

AI voice platform for TTS, voice cloning, STT, and voice agents

Freemium