Open-source AI voice typing for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Press a hotkey, speak naturally, get polished text in any app.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
MacScribe Alternatives
Apps similar to MacScribe include Handy STT, which is free and open source. Other options are Vibe Transcribe, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and TypeWhisper. You're spoiled for choice with Audio Transcription Tools like MacScribe: we list more than 100 alternatives for Mac, the web, Windows, iPhone and Linux.
Alternatives list
A Windows speech-to-text tool with a simple Record/Stop interface. Dictate in Russian or other languages, then copy or save the finished text. It works on your computer without sending text to third-party servers, and offers a three-day unrestricted demo.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Russia
A simple transcription service app that records your voice and converts it into text. Use it to quickly transcribe your audio.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
Inwista turns audio and video into accurate, speaker-labeled transcripts and broadcast-grade subtitles in 70+ languages, and gives you a full video studio to edit, translate and generate content in the same project.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Norway
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Subanana is a multilingual AI speech-to-text workspace for subtitles, transcripts, translation, meeting minutes and live event captions.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Hong Kong
VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Python
- Self-Hosted
- Hugging Face
United States
12 KanjuTech Transcription and Diarization alternativesKanjuTech Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model is a custom AI solution that generates meeting notes, subtitles, and other speech-to-text tasks. KanjuTech ASR model is distributed via the AWS Marketplace as a pre-built SageMaker Docker image.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Amazon Web Services
Iris Flow is an open-source overlay dictation app for Apple Silicon Macs. Hold Left-Ctrl to speak, release, and the transcript is pasted at the cursor in Notes, Slack, browsers, editors, and other apps. There is no account and no hosted backend.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
Privacy-first interview and speech transcriber with EU-only AI processing, automatic deletion of recordings - no account required.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Hungary
EU
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Transcribe any audio or video to text for free, with automatic speaker labels and no daily cap. You get a TXT transcript plus SRT/VTT subtitles; an hour of audio takes about two minutes.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
Most transcription apps send your audio to their servers. Scrieb doesn't. Everything — recording, transcription, export — happens on your computer. No cloud. No uploads. Nothing leaves.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
Spain- EU
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