Free Transcription AI Tools

StageWhisper Lite is a free, on-device Mac app that listens to calls and produces local transcripts, summaries, and action items without uploading audio or screen content to external servers.

Swell AI is a SaaS platform that transforms audio and video into transcripts, clips, show notes, articles, summaries, social posts and more, with reusable templates, brand voice controls, episode chatbots, and multi-show management.

Transcri is an AI-powered online service that automatically transcribes, subtitles, and translates audio and video files in 100+ languages, with an online editor and collaborative workspace for teams.

Handwriting OCR is a commercial OCR service purpose-built to convert handwritten documents (cursive, messy, mixed scripts) into editable, searchable text quickly, with API access and enterprise features for high-volume workflows.

Vatis Tech provides a production-grade speech-to-text platform and API that transcribes audio and video with claimed 98–99% accuracy across 50+ languages, plus audio intelligence (speaker diarization, sentiment, topic detection), on-premise deployment, and enterprise security/compliance.

Whisper AI is an online speech-to-text workspace that uses OpenAI Whisper technology to convert audio and video into editable, searchable, and export-ready transcripts for meetings, podcasts, lectures, and other recordings.

Video to Text is an AI-powered online transcription tool that converts video and audio into accurate, timestamped transcripts with speaker labels and support for 99 languages, intended for subtitles, meeting notes, interviews, courses, podcasts, and multilingual workflows.

Rythmex is an online audio-to-text converter that transcribes audio and video files into editable text using automated (AI/ML) technology, supporting a wide range of formats and languages and offering an advanced editor and API integration for businesses and individual users.

Whisper Notes is a native iPhone and macOS app that performs fully offline speech-to-text using OpenAI's Whisper family of models (including Whisper Large V3 Turbo). It targets professionals who need private, on-device transcription for meetings, lectures, interviews, and dictation, with a one-time purchase model rather than subscriptions.

Bluedot is a privacy-first, bot-free AI meeting note taker that captures, transcribes, and summarises online and in-person meetings across platforms, and syncs notes and action items to CRMs, ATSs, Notion and more.

MinutesLink is an AI meeting note taker that records meetings (via a Chrome extension or bot), produces speaker-labeled transcripts and AI-generated summaries (key topics, decisions, action items), and stores searchable meeting records for teams and businesses.

Voscribe is an AI-powered transcription and podcast/video creation suite that provides automatic transcripts, an audio-synced editor, and SRT subtitle export targeted at podcasters and video creators.

Transcriptly is a web-based audio and video transcription service that converts YouTube videos and uploaded media into accurate text, summaries, and subtitles using AI, supporting 98+ languages and multiple export formats.

Exemplary is an AI-powered content repurposing platform that converts long videos and audio into short social clips, transcripts, summaries, subtitles (120+ languages), blog posts, chapters and more with one click.

TransPocket is an AI-enhanced online audio and video transcription service that converts audio/video files and live recordings to text using Whisper Large-v3 and a high-speed turbo model, offering multi-language support, speaker recognition, and enterprise-grade security.

GoTranscript is a transcription, captioning, translation and subtitling service offering human-made publish-ready transcripts (99.4% accuracy) and automated AI transcriptions, plus a REST API and enterprise solutions for high-volume or secure workflows.

AudioScribe is an AI-powered transcription and interview-summarization platform built for journalists and newsrooms, turning raw audio or YouTube links into structured drafts, extracted quotes, and CMS-ready exports with direct Notion and Zapier syncs.

Notta is an AI-powered meeting notetaker that captures, transcribes, summarizes and turns meetings, interviews, lectures and uploaded audio/video into searchable text and visual deliverables (slides, infographics). It targets professionals and teams with multi-language transcription, AI insights, and integrations to streamline meeting workflows.

Fireflies is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes team conversations across meetings, calls, and uploaded audio/video to generate notes, action items, searchable transcripts, and conversation intelligence for teams and enterprises.

Bocca is an AI-powered, offline-first speech-to-text app for macOS that transcribes audio, generates text by dictation, and works anywhere you can type or paste text while keeping data private on your device.

SubtitleGenerator is a browser-based AI subtitle editor that transcribes video locally, flags uncertain words for quick correction, provides 33 animated caption styles, and exports burned-in videos or multiple subtitle formats — free to start with optional Pro/Max upgrades.

Mufal is a private, AI-powered meeting assistant that provides live transcription, real-time answers, auto-generated meeting notes, action items, and durable project memory — designed to be invisible on screen share and used across enterprise meeting platforms.

Glyph AI is a web platform that automatically transcribes audio/video (podcasts, interviews, webinars) and repurposes recordings into publish-ready content (blog posts, social posts, newsletters, YouTube descriptions) using AI-powered summarization and a brand-trained repurposing engine.

Dicte.ai is a sovereign AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, analyzes and generates meeting minutes and reports using AI-driven skills; built for on-site, fieldwork, hybrid and remote meetings with privacy-focused, Europe-hosted infrastructure.