Alternatives to HappyScribe

An AI transcription, subtitle and meeting notes service supporting more than 150 languages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as HappyScribe.

  • Rev

    An AI and human transcription service with captioning, a transcript editor and a mobile voice recorder app.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Rev is a paid service with AI or human-verified transcription, captions, a mobile recorder app and an API, with its product focus shifting toward legal and investigative customers.

  • Sonix

    An online transcription service that converts audio and video to text in over 54 languages.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Sonix is a paid web transcription service in over 54 languages with speaker detection, timestamps, questions across transcripts and an API, but no mobile apps.

  • Trint

    A web platform that transcribes audio and video to editable, searchable text with AI summaries.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Trint is a paid web platform with live transcription, collaborative editing, more than 40 transcription languages and AI summaries, aimed at media teams.

  • Notta

    An AI note taker that transcribes and summarizes meetings, interviews, lectures and uploaded recordings.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Notta is a freemium note taker transcribing meetings and uploads in 58 languages with iOS and Android apps, and it can generate slides from recordings.

  • Whisper-WebUI

    A browser interface for generating subtitles and transcripts locally with Whisper speech recognition models.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    Whisper-WebUI is a free Apache-2.0 self-hosted interface that creates subtitles and transcripts locally, with SRT and WebVTT export and translation, and no human proofreading option.

  • Whishper

    A self-hosted web app for transcribing, translating and editing subtitles locally with Whisper models.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Whishper is a free AGPL-3.0 self-hosted app for local transcription, translation and subtitle editing, though the current version gets no new releases during a rewrite.

  • noScribe

    Transcribes recorded audio to text on your own computer, with speaker separation.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    noScribe is free GPL-3.0 desktop software that transcribes locally with speaker separation, keeping audio off cloud services but running slowly without a capable GPU.

  • Speechnotes

    A browser-based dictation notepad and automatic transcription service for audio and video files.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidWeb

    Speechnotes is a freemium browser dictation notepad on web and Android that also transcribes uploaded files for a fee, with fewer subtitle and meeting features.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.