Azure AI Speech to Text alternatives

Evaluating alternatives to Azure AI Speech to Text? These speech-to-text & transcription apis are ranked by the same transparent, cited data-readiness score, with the reasons to consider each shown. No reviews, no paid placement.

Rankedby a transparent data-readiness score computed from each API's published, sourced fields. No reviews, no paid placement. How we rank.

ElevenLabs Scribe (Speech to Text)
"Scribe v2 is the most accurate Speech to Text model" offering "real-time Speech to Text in under 150 ms" across "90+ languages."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · a free tier · self-serve signup.
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Amazon Transcribe
"Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition service that uses machine learning models to convert audio to text. You can use Amazon Transcribe as a standalone transcription service or to add speech-to-text capabilities to any application."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · a free tier · self-serve signup.
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Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
"Accurate voice typing and transcription powered by Gemini."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · a free tier · self-serve signup.
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IBM watsonx Speech to Text
"IBM Watson® Speech to Text technology enables fast and accurate speech transcription in multiple languages for a variety of use cases, including but not limited to customer self-service, agent assistance and speech analytics."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · a free tier · self-serve signup.
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AssemblyAI
"Voice AI infrastructure for developers building products that transcribe, understand, and act on speech."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · self-serve signup · SOC 2 Type II.
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Speechmatics
"Low-latency speech-to-text for multilingual, multi-speaker conversations."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · a free tier · self-serve signup.
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Deepgram
Build with the most accurate and cost-effective real-time APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents. Available in real-time and batch, cloud and self-hosted.
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · self-serve signup · SOC 2 Type II.
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OpenAI Speech-to-Text
"The Audio API provides two speech-to-text endpoints, transcriptions and translations, based on our state-of-the-art open source large-v2 Whisper model."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · self-serve signup · SOC 2 Type II.
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Gladia
"End-to-end audio infrastructure to record, transcribe and enrich audio through a single API"
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · a free tier · self-serve signup.
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Rev AI
"A developer-first API delivering industry-leading accuracy and fast performance at global scale."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · self-serve signup · SOC 2 Type II.
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Voicegain
"Voice AI under your Control" - Build AI Voice Agents and Voice AI Apps with Speech-to-Text and LLM APIs, deployable in datacenter or cloud.
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · self-serve signup · SOC 2 Type II.
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Soniox
"Turn live conversations into structured intelligence."
Why consider it: transparent public pricing · self-serve signup · SOC 2 Type II.
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