Keeps each recording byte-for-byte, transcribes it through a service you choose, and lets you search inside everything you have.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
Spain
EU
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Gladia Alternatives
Sites and apps similar to Gladia include Vibe Transcribe, which is free and open source. Other options are Voxtral, Whisper, TranscribeX and Moonshine AI. There's no shortage of Audio Transcription Tools like Gladia, with more than 50 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad.
Alternatives list
Private dictation for Mac: hold a key, speak, and clean, punctuated text is typed at your cursor in almost any app. Runs entirely on-device.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
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
Are you tired of manually transcribing audio recordings, images, and videos into text?
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Apple Watch
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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Gazelle is a joint speech-language model by Tincans — for more details and prompt ideas, see our v0.2 announcement. This is an early research preview -- please temper expectations! Gazelle can take in text and audio as input (interchangeably) and generates text as output.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Online
AI-driven online converter transcribes uploaded audio files into accurate text, supporting multiple languages and dialects. Works fully in-browser, requires no registration, offers fast speech recognition, and supports formats suited for interviews or meetings.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
koedesk is a cross-platform voice-to-text tool. Press and hold a key, speak naturally, and your words are typed straight into whatever app you're using — Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, Mail, your editor, anywhere you can type.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
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Records lectures, meetings and calls and writes structured notes — transcription and AI run locally on your Mac. Free, open source, no account.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Germany- EU
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Hello Transcribe is a private and secure speech to text transcriber that uses OpenAI Whisper and Whisper.cpp.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
South Africa
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NotchLive is a macOS menu bar app that displays real-time AI-powered captions and translations directly in your MacBook's notch. It uses on-device Whisper AI (via CoreML) for speech recognition and Apple Translation for real-time translation — nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Global
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