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The lowest priced transcription API
Today's transcription APIs are massively overpriced. SaladCloud offers the lowest-priced transcription API in the market with unparalleled accuracy, covering speech-to-text transcription, translation, summarization & analysis in one unified API.
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High Accuracy.
Up to 90% less cost.
Salad Transcription API offers high accuracy for various media types at 20%- 90% less cost than other Transcription APIs in the industry. While other tools just transcribe the words, SaladCloud provides human-readable transcripts with punctuation, capitalization, sentence, and paragraph structure.
No more expensive APIs
Thanks to a needless mix of custom models, datacenter GPUs, and add-on pricing, transcription APIs charge a high price. By using Whisper Large v3 and consumer GPUs, SaladCloud provides highly accurate, full-featured transcription at up to 90% less cost than other APIs.
Transcripts & Summaries
Gain valuable insights by transcribing 1000s of hours of calls & meetings without breaking the bank. Get summaries and LLM-powered analysis of your transcripts to unlock critical insights.
Translations
Get better machine translation economics on SaladCloud. Translate audio to English from 97+ languages. Translate between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish & Thai using LLM integration.
Captions
Improve the accessibility and engagement of your video content. Generate precise, industry-standard SRT files for use across various platforms and devices. Translate captions at no additional cost.
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Built for Transcription at scale in 97+ languages
The Salad Transcription API provides a one-stop solution that not only transcribes audio with high accuracy but also translates, summarizes, improves, and analyzes content using LLMs. This integration reduces operational costs, saves time, and simplifies workflows for growing businesses.
Flexible inputs
Supports popular audio (MP3, WAV, FLAC, etc.), video (MP4, MOV, FLV, etc.) & customer knowledge (SQL, OWL, JSON, etc.) formats.
Multi-lingual support
Transcribe in 97 languages, caption in multiple languages, translate from 99 languages to English and utilize the LLM integration to translate between 8 languages.
Automatic Speech Recogition
High-quality ASR solution with language ID, transcription, diarization & word-level time-coding.
LLM integration
Leverage Llama3 8B for seamless translations to multiple languages, summarization, text insights, custom tasks, and more.
Fully customizable
From custom vocabulary for improved accuracy to custom prompts instructing LLMs to update the transcripts, tailor the API to your needs easily.
SRT Output
Produce industry-standard SRT files ready for use by popular video editors and players with strict industry compliance and segmentation.
Democratizing access to transcription with AI
Today, budgets for transcription and accessibility within enterprise organizations are dwindling. At the same time, incumbent APIs are way too expensive to perform large-scale transcription profitably. SaladCloud changes that with the power of open-source models & distributed computing, leading to affordable, accurate transcription.
Highly accurate, human-readable transcripts
Get high-quality, human-readable transcripts with punctuation, capitalization, etc. - with 91.3% average accuracy across different media types.
Connect to 100s of Apps
Transcription managed start to end for you
Our low prices increase your business profitability while meeting content accessibility & utilization goals with ease.
Our prices are 20-50% lower than the next best option in the market with similar accuracy.
Our multi-step, multi-model AI approach delivers top-notch accuracy by utilizing leading open-source models.
One API to transcribe and deliver ancillary tasks like summarization, translation, captioning and subtitling.
Our elastic infrastructure enables you to easily scale from zero to millions of hours transcribed per year.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Switching to SaladCloud is designed to be seamless and cost-effective. The investment includes a one-time setup cost, after which customers can enjoy substantial savings and a high return on investment (~533%) from the very first year.
Unlike other API providers that rely on expensive, high-end GPUs from hyperscalers, SaladCloud's transcription service utilizes our proprietary distributed cloud powered by 1000s of consumer GPUs at the lowest price in the market. This low-cost compute model allows us to offer transcription services at significantly lower prices without compromising quality. Our tiered pricing model is designed to cater to high-volume needs, providing clear cost advantages as usage scales up.
SaladCloud employs a combination of open-source AI models, including Audio Enhancement, Automatic Speech Recognition technology, and large language models. These models are enhanced by a dedicated Knowledge Base that accounts for custom vocabulary and contextual nuances.
Yes, SaladCloud's service includes diarization to differentiate between speakers and accent modification in the pre-processing stage to handle diverse accents effectively, ensuring high-quality transcription regardless of complexity.
Every day, 100s of businesses trust SaladCloud infrastructure with their data, thanks to our multi-step security framework ensuring that data is safeguarded at every step of the way. Our SOC-2-compliant cloud infrastructure utilizes end-to-end encryption of your data, isolated processing environments, data sanitization, and access controls to safeguard the confidentiality and integrity of customer files.