Speech Recognition Software
Alternatives to Gladia
Gladia suits teams building audio features into software. Its API records, transcribes, and enriches audio asynchronously or in real time, including live streaming, with automatic language detection and switching across 100+ languages. Speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, PII redaction, entity detection, audio-to-LLM processing, timestamps, SRT/VTT exports, SDKs, and service connectors cover application workflows. GladiaFlow also provides desktop voice dictation for Mac and Windows.
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Notta From $8.17/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · iOS9.1 Visit Specs - 02
Amazon Transcribe From $0.01/mo Free plan Web · API8.9 Visit Specs - 03
ElevenLabs From $6/mo Free plan Web · API8.9 Visit Specs - 04
Otter.ai Otter.ai suits people and teams who want searchable meeting transcripts, summaries and action items.
Free plan Windows · macOS · iOS · Android8.9 Visit Specs - 05
Rev AI From $0.01/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API8.9 Visit Specs - 06
Speechmatics Speechmatics suits teams building transcription, voice-agent, or speech-synthesis workflows, including listed healthcare, legal, contact center, and meeting use cases.
From $0.01/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.9 Visit Specs - 07
AssemblyAI It suits developers building transcription, speech-understanding, or voice applications who need API access, language coverage, or self-hosting.
From $0.15/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.8 Visit Specs - 08
ESPnet ESPnet suits developers and researchers building speech-processing workflows who can work with its installation and task dependencies.
Free plan Open source Windows · macOS · Linux · API8.8 Visit Specs - 09
Superwhisper Superwhisper suits people who dictate across apps and want text adapted to screen context.
From $7.08/mo Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · iOS8.8 Visit Specs - 10
IBM Watson Speech to Text From $0.02/mo Free plan API · Self-hosted8.7 Visit Specs - 11 Kaldi
Kaldi is aimed at speech recognition researchers, professionals and researchers-in-training who can work with an expert-oriented toolkit.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.7 Visit Specs - 12
Whisper Whisper suits developers and researchers building speech-processing applications or conducting further research.
From $0.01/mo Free plan Open source Windows · macOS · Linux · API8.6 Visit Specs - 13
Azure AI Speech Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.5 Visit Specs - 14 Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
Speech-to-Text suits developers integrating transcription into applications or workflows that need streaming, batch, or synchronous recognition.
From $0.02/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.5 Visit Specs - 15
NVIDIA Riva Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted8.5 Visit Specs - 16
MacWhisper Free plan macOS · iOS8.4 Visit Specs - 17 Picovoice Leopard
Leopard suits developers and enterprises that need local transcription of recorded audio or video, including word-level metadata and speaker tags.
Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.4 Visit Specs - 18 CMU Sphinx
CMU Sphinx suits developers applying speech technology in applications, rather than speech-recognition researchers.
Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · Android8.3 Visit Specs - 19 Voice In
Voice In suits people who want to dictate into browser-based text fields, use spoken editing commands, and work in supported browsers.
From $5/mo Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · Browser extension8.2 Visit Specs - 20 Talon Voice
Talon suits people seeking hands-free input for writing, coding, browsing, or gaming.
Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux8.1 Visit Specs - 21 Vosk
Vosk suits developers building applications that need offline or streaming speech recognition.
Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · iOS8.0 Visit Specs - 22 Trint
Trint suits newsrooms, podcasters, local businesses, and global organizations that need searchable transcripts, editing, collaboration, or publishing tools.
Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · iOS7.7 Visit Specs - 23 Dragon Professional
It suits Windows users and organizations needing dictation, audio transcription, custom commands, or centrally distributed language materials.
Windows7.6 Visit Specs - 24 SpeechRecognition Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · API7.6 Visit Specs
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Soniox From $19.99/mo Free plan API7.3 Visit Specs - 26 Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Speech Interaction Web6.6 Visit Specs
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Deepgram Speech-to-Text 6.2 Visit Specs - 29 Yandex SpeechKit
It suits developers and teams needing speech synthesis through a web service or API, including voice cloning and several audio formats.
Web · API6.2 Visit Specs - 30 sherpa Web · Windows · macOS · Linux5.9 Visit Specs
Choosing instead of Gladia
An alternative may fit better when you need a mobile app, offline processing, or a focused editor for recorded files. Gladia has a free plan, 50€ in one-time credits, and usage-based paid tiers; its hourly calls, transcribed audio, and concurrency depend on the tier. Consider whether you need an API, WebSocket streaming, and integrations, or instead want app-based dictation, local processing, foot-pedal controls, broader export choices, or included minutes. Platform coverage, language count, speaker handling, and pricing structures differ across these products.