| What it does | Free AI audio and video transcription with pay-as-you-go pricing
| Live speech-to-text for events with verification within a second
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| Stage | Startup
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| Founded | 2026
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| Based in | Not given
| US
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| Pricing model | Freemium
| Paid
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| Pricing | 10 free minutes per day, then €0.02 per minute. Prepaid balance from €5 with no minimum charge. Single card payment minimum €0.50. Example: 30-minute interview €0.60, 90-minute lecture €1.80.
| Event pass: $5 per event or $12 for 3 events. Saidwire Pro: $49/week for newsrooms and clip accounts (first event free).
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| Key features | - Upload audio or video files in MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, MP4, or MOV format up to 2 GB
- Choose between three AI models: OpenAI Whisper, Microsoft MAI-Transcribe 2, or Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
- Automatic language detection across 65 languages
- Download transcripts as TXT, PDF, SRT, and VTT files
- Speaker diarization to identify who is speaking
- AI-generated summaries and action item lists
- Translation into 103 languages with preserved timecodes
- Import from YouTube, Simplecast, Dropbox, Google Drive, or direct MP3/MP4 links
- Browser-based free subtitle conversion tools that never upload files
- Files automatically deleted within 24 hours
| - Real-time streaming via WebSocket with interim and final results
- Pre-recorded file transcription supporting WAV, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Opus, WebM, M4A/MP4
- OpenAI-compatible API endpoint for existing SDKs
- Punctuation and capitalization in transcripts
- Multiple response formats: JSON, text, verbose JSON, SRT, VTT
- Voice activity detection and speech endpoint detection
- Early word streaming for real-time keyword detection
- Multi-engine verification: words validated by two engines or human confirmer
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| What makes it different | - Pay-as-you-go pricing with no subscription required, 10 free daily minutes
- No account needed to try the service
- Choice of three leading AI transcription models
- Privacy-first: files never used for AI training, deleted after 24 hours
- Support for video files without conversion needed
| - Median 0.1 second latency from audio to transcription, usually before speaker finishes the word
- Multi-engine consensus verification prevents errors from single speech engine
- Live event coverage with real-time market impact for traders
- Ready-to-post drafts and running stories for newsrooms while events happen
- Independent company with no affiliation to campaigns, parties, outlets or exchanges
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 5 ● no change since last check | Not checked yet ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 3 | 0 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 26 | 0 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 36 | 0 |
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