Stop overpaying for AI transcription today
Today's AI transcription services rely on high-end GPUs, custom models & expensive clouds, leading to a high cost for you. By utilizing open-source models on the world's most affordable cloud, Salad offers the lowest priced transcription service in the market with unparalleled accuracy, cutting your costs by up to 90%.
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The industry's best-kept secret is that AI-powered transcription shouldn't cost what it does today. But thanks to a needless mix of custom models & expensive GPUs, APIs charge a high price with high margins.
Leveraging Whisper Large v3 and consumer GPUs, Salad provides highly-accurate transcription for innovative, cost-conscious companies 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.
Subtitles
Get better machine translation economics on Salad's network of GPUs at the lowest market prices.
Captions
Get accurate captions to foster a more engaged and diverse audience at low cost while meeting accessibility requirements easily.
Affordable. Game-changer. A freaking nuclear reactor for transcription.
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Built for Transcription at scale in 97+ languages
We're not just about the lowest cost. Our AI-powered pipeline is custom-built with input from industry experts supporting 97+ languages. By utilizing a combination of high-quality, open-source models to deliver transcription with unparalleled accuracy, we deliver massive savings to you for both audio & video transcription.
Flexible inputs
Supports popular audio (MP3, WAV, FLAC, etc.), video (MP4, MOV, FLV, etc.) & customer knowledge (SQL, OWL, JSON, etc.) formats.
Pre-processing
Accounts for noise reduction, volume normalization, speech enhancement and accent modification.
Automatic Speech Recogition
High-quality ASR solution with language ID, transcription, diarization & word-level timecoding.
Large Language Models
Top-notch transcription quality with accuracy enhancement, speaker name enhancement, summarization, translation & output conversion through LLMs.
Knowledge Base (RAG)
An accuracy enhancing knowledge base utilizes customer inputs to account for custom vocabulary, rare words, proper nouns, tailored outputs & transcripts.
Use-based outputs
Transcript, summary (JSON, TXT, PDF, DOCX)
closed caption & subtitle (SRT, ASS, SSA, VTT, SUB, IDX/SUB, SAMI, TTML, DFXP, STL).
Democratizing access to transcription with AI
Today, budgets are dwindling for transcription and accessibility within enterprise organizations. At the same time, incumbent APIs are way too expensive to perform large-scale transcription profitably. Salad 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. - all with 91.3% average accuracy across different media types.
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 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 0 to millions of hours transcribed per year.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Switching to Salad 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, Salad'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 on quality. Our tiered pricing model is designed to cater to high-volume needs, providing clear cost advantages as usage scales up.
Salad employs a combination of open source AI models including Audio Enhancement, Automatic Speech Recognition technology and Large Language Models, which are enhanced by a dedicated Knowledge Base that accounts for custom vocabulary and contextual nuances.
Yes, Salad'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 Salad 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's files.