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24 alternatives to Speech recognition for file multilingual

Multilingual automatic transcription on audio file for Mac

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

1. 1
   Universal-1▲424

   Multilingual speech AI model trained on 12.5M hours of data

   2024 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Omnilingual ASR▲132

   Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1,600+ languages

   Nov 2025 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   MAI-Transcribe-1▲85

   Production ASR for noisy multilingual audio

   Apr 2026 · microsoft.ai · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Unlimited Voice Transcription with API▲479

   Fast voice-to-text on 92 languages

   2023 · its alternatives →

5. 5SO
   State-of-the-art German speech recognition in 284 lines of C++▲231

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Multilingual▲78

   A command line translation automation tool for developers

   2022 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   TongueType for macOS▲109

   Local dictation for macOS without the subscription

   May 2026 · tonguetype.app · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Smart Dictation▲90

   Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac

   2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   MacWhisper▲123

   High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

   2023 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    SpeechFlow▲118

    Multilingual speech-to-text API trained on 100M+ utterances

    2023 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    File Transcribe▲95

    Transcription made simple with AI for audio and video files

    2024 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Simon Says▲111

    Accurate transcription and translation for video pros

    2018 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    VoiceAI▲116

    Capture every conversation

    2023 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    I ♡ Transcriptions▲9

    Unlimited audio and video transcriptions

    2024 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    AI Audio Kit▲92

    Easy audio transcription from your macOS desktop

    2024 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Yescribe.ai▲194

    Convert audio and video to text with AI & free online

    2024 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    MiMo-V2.5 Voice▲115

    Bilingual ASR for dialects, code-switching, and songs

    Apr 2026 · mimo.mi.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    TalkFlowy▲75

    Local real-time voice transcription for Mac

    Apr 2026 · talkflowy.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Cohere Transcribe▲126

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

    Mar 2026 · cohere.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Simple Fast Translation▲121

    One-click translation with shortcut keys in macOS

    2025 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Dictura▲81

    Hold a key, speak, release- translated text at your cursor

    Mar 2026 · dictura.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice▲92

    Here is a tool I built initially for myself to help with my German and Greek language studies. It started as a hack for creating Anki cards from native language audio. It extracts the words, finds their base forms (lemmas) and groups the examples by the lemma. At some point I realised that I have a transcription with word level timestamps that opens a lot of other opportunities. So I added a mode to click the first and last word in the transcript and it starts looping with the right gap and repeat count. Another feature I use a lot is selecting an audio fragment, sending a predefined prompt…

    Jun 2026 · lingochunk.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Dictato▲93

    Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

    Feb 2026 · dicta.to · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Type Switch 3.0 for macOS ▲77

    Instant language switching for multilingual Mac users

    May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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