AI Tools for Audio Transcription
13 tools
Otter.ai
Teams drown in meeting notes
Descript
Text-based video editing sounds backwards until you try it
Podcastle
Most podcast tools make mobile recording feel clunky
Fireflies.ai
You'll pay for premium features, but Fireflies
FastlyConvert
The interface looks clean enough, but you'll spend time figuring out the custom vocabulary settings if your content has technical terms
Sembly
Over 10,000 business teams worldwide let Sembly handle their meeting notes automatically
tl;dv
Your meeting recordings become the data source
Riverside - YouTube Transcript Generator
Riverside's YouTube transcript generator pulls audio straight from YouTube videos
Transcribe to Text
Drop an audio file and wait
Freeway
Mac only
Kolva
Install the Chrome extension
DeVoice
AI transcription service that converts audio and video into accurate text, handling podcasts, meetings, interviews, and more.
Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
Speech recognition APIs often struggle with accuracy across different accents, background noise, and audio quality