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Descript Free tier

All-in-one audio/video editor where you edit media by editing text.

Free for 1 hour/mo · Free Podcasters and video creators wanting text-based editing
Text-Based Editing Transcription Screen Recording AI Voice
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Whisper Free Open Source

OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model with state-of-the-art accuracy.

Free Developers wanting state-of-the-art open-source transcription
Open Source Multi-Language Local Running High Accuracy
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AssemblyAI Free tier

Speech-to-text API with speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection.

Free for 100 hrs · Paid from $0.37/hr Developers wanting transcription and audio intelligence APIs
Transcription API Speaker Labels Sentiment Summarization
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Remote recording platform for podcasts and video with local recording and transcription.

Paid from $15/mo Podcasters wanting studio-quality remote recording
Local Recording Transcription AI Editor Multi-Track
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ElevenLabs Free tier

AI voice generator with realistic voice cloning, text-to-speech, and dubbing.

Free for 10K characters/mo · Free Creators wanting realistic AI voice cloning and text-to-speech
Voice Cloning Text-to-Speech Dubbing Voice Library

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