Best Voice to Text Alternatives in 2026

1. Easymeety.ai

Free

Best for: Sales reps, managers, researchers and students who record calls, standups, interviews or lectures on iPhone and want instant summaries.

Pricing: Easymeety is listed as a free app on the App Store, with no in-app purchases listed.

• One-tap recording that keeps running while the phone screen is locked
• Full transcripts plus AI summaries of key points, decisions and action items
• AI search across all of your past meetings

2. Otter.ai

Freemium

Best for: Teams and professionals who want meetings transcribed and summarised with action items captured automatically.

Pricing: Basic is free forever with 300 monthly transcription minutes; Pro costs $16.99 per user per month ($8.33 per user per month billed annually) and Business $30 per user per month ($19.99 billed annually). Enterprise pricing is by demo.

• Joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet to transcribe in real time
• Automatic summaries with decisions and action items
• Otter AI Chat answers questions across your meetings and connected apps

3. RecCloud

Paid

Best for: Video creators and language learners who need transcripts, subtitles and translated voiceovers for web video.

Pricing: RecCloud's pricing page lists a Weekly plan at $9/wk (billed every 7 days, 300 credits per week), Basic (Annual) at $3/mo with 2000 credits per year, Pro (Annual) at $4.92/mo ($59 billed yearly) with 6000 credits per year, and Business (Annual) at $188 billed yearly with 24000 credits per year. The page lists a 7-day money-back guarantee and no free plan or trial. Prices may change, so check the official pricing page for current prices.

• AI speech to text with optional polishing and summarising
• Subtitle generator that can translate subtitles into multiple languages
• Text-to-speech voices that can turn text in one language into speech in another

4. Fireflies.ai

Freemium

Best for: Teams and sales or recruiting staff who want meetings recorded, transcribed and summarised so they can search them later.

Pricing: The Free plan costs $0. Pro is $10 per seat per month billed annually ($18 billed monthly), Business is $19 per seat per month billed annually ($29 billed monthly) and Enterprise is $39 per seat per month, billed annually only.

• Records and transcribes meetings on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, plus more
• Transcription in 100+ languages, including on the Free plan
• AI summaries of meetings, which are limited on the Free plan

5. Free Subtitles AI

Freemium

Best for: Video creators and editors who need time-stamped subtitles and translations for their footage without typing them out.

Pricing: A free tier is available, limited to 30 minutes per file and 1 file a day without signing in or 3 with an account. Pro is $0.99 per hour of media with no subscription, and later top-ups have a $5 minimum.

• Transcribes video and audio in 100 languages with auto-detect
• Translates transcripts into 120 languages
• Uploads MP4, MKV, MOV, MP3, WAV and FLAC, or imports by URL from 1,100+ sites

6. WavoAI

Free Trial

Best for: Interviewers, journalists and meeting note-takers who want speaker-labelled transcripts with summaries.

Pricing: WavoAI has a free Trial plan with a 1 hour transcription limit and partial AI content analysis. Pro costs $8.99 per month and includes unlimited audio, unlimited transcripts and full AI analysis, and you can cancel any time. Enterprise has no listed price; contact WavoAI for details.

• Transcribes uploaded audio through drag and drop
• Speaker identification (diarisation) and transcript annotations
• AI assistant per transcript produces summaries, action points and to-do items

7. TurboScribe

Freemium

Best for: Students, podcasters, journalists and video editors who need fast transcripts and subtitles from recordings, interviews or lectures in many languages.

Pricing: Free plan: 3 transcripts per day, 30 minutes per file. Unlimited costs $10 per month billed yearly ($120 per year) or $20 per month billed monthly.

• Transcribes audio and video in 98+ languages using Whisper
• Translates transcripts and subtitles into 134+ languages
• Speaker recognition labels who is talking in each section

8. Castmagic

Paid

Best for: Podcasters, agencies and content teams who repurpose long recordings into transcripts, show notes and social posts.

Pricing: Plans are billed annually: Hobby is $19 per month ($239 per year) for 30 transcription hours, Starter $48 per month ($579 per year) for 100 hours and Team $139 per month ($1,669 per year) for 400 hours. Business & Scale starts from $699 per month.

• Imports audio and video from YouTube, Apple Podcasts, TikTok, Google Drive, Vimeo, RSS feeds or direct upload
• Speaker-labelled, timestamped transcripts in 60+ languages
• Generates show notes, newsletters, quotes, LinkedIn posts, blog articles and meeting recaps from one recording

9. Wave

Freemium

Best for: iPhone and Mac users who attend meetings or lectures and want recordings turned into searchable transcripts and short summaries.

Pricing: Wave is free to download on the App Store, with in-app purchases for more usage. Check the official pricing page for current prices.

• Records meetings, calls and lectures, including background recording
• Records and transcribes phone calls
• Creates AI summaries with key points, action items and to-dos

10. Symbl.ai

Freemium

Best for: Event organisers, businesses and developers who need real-time transcription, live captions and meeting summaries with contextual understanding.

Pricing: Symbl.ai gives 100 free minutes, then charges $0.09 per minute pay as you go. A second tier costs $90 per month with volume discounts for larger businesses, and Enterprise pricing is tailored.

• Converts live speech to text in real time using deep learning models
• Interprets conversation context, not just the literal words spoken
• Provides live captioning for events, conferences and webinars