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24 alternatives to Cohere Transcribe

New state-of-the-art in open source speech recognition

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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AssemblyAI - Speech-to-Text API▲996
APIs to automatically transcribe and understand audio
2017 · assemblyai.com · its alternatives →
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MAI-Transcribe-1▲85
Production ASR for noisy multilingual audio
Apr 2026 · microsoft.ai · its alternatives →
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Unlimited Voice Transcription with API▲476
Fast voice-to-text on 92 languages
2023 · lingvanex.com · its alternatives →
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Voicetapp▲69
Transcribe any speech into text with high accuracy
2022 · voicetapp.com · its alternatives →
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Transkriptor 2.0▲263
From speech to insights – transcribes, summarizes & analyzes
2025 · transkriptor.com · its alternatives →
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State-of-the-art German speech recognition in 284 lines of C++▲231
State-of-the-art (ranked #1 Aug 2022) German Speech Recognition in 284 lines of C++. This is a 100% private 100% offline 100% free CLI tool. - DeutscheKI/tevr-asr-tool
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
7
OpenAI GPT-4o Audio Models▲379
Build Powerful Voice Agents
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Hintscribe▲89
Real-time system audio transcription with GPT integration
2023 · hintscribe.wordpress.com · its alternatives →
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Google Live Transcribe▲160
Google's new service built for the deaf and hard of hearing.
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Transcriber▲221
Transcribe any audio/video to text in minutes
2018 · its alternatives →
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Voice to Text - Transcribe Live▲91
Speech typing notes and memos
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Yescribe.ai▲194
Convert audio and video to text with AI & free online
2024 · yescribe.ai · its alternatives →
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AI Transcribe▲136
Easily transcribe & translate lectures and meetings
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System▲233
:speech_balloon: An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System - GitHub - iceychris/LibreASR: :speech_balloon: An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Omnilingual ASR▲132
Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1,600+ languages
Nov 2025 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Whisper Notes▲115
Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →
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Speechmark▲101
Record, transcribe, and summarize meetings entirely on your Mac — decisions, action items, speaker-attributed transcripts. No bot, no account, pay once.
Sep 2026 · speechmark.co · its alternatives →
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SpeechFlow▲118
Multilingual speech-to-text API trained on 100M+ utterances
2023 · its alternatives →
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Taped.ai▲159
Transcribe and summarize audio, images into clear text
2024 · taped.ai · its alternatives →
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File Transcribe▲95
Transcription made simple with AI for audio and video files
2024 · filetranscribe.com · its alternatives →
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transcribo▲74
Simple and affordable audio to text transcription software
2021 · its alternatives →
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iVoiceNote 2.0▲63
Free Voice Typing Notebook Online with Speech Recognition
2020 · its alternatives →
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Open-source online speech recognition▲26
Working online speech recognition based on RNN Transducer. ( Trained model release available in release ) - theblackcat102/edgedict
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Windows port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition model▲43
This project is a Windows port of the whisper.cpp implementation: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp Which in turn is a C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model: https://github.com/openai/whisper The implementation has no dependencies, usually much faster than realtime, and should hopefully work on most Windows computers in the world.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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