Hotkey dictation app that turns spoken words into cleaned-up text at your cursor in any desktop application.
Parlo alternatives
3 products our research names as a replacement for Parlo in Speech-to-Text & Transcription, each with what it does differently — prices, API and status from our own checks rather than from the vendors’ own pages.
Acousmos
69Mac dictation app that saves every transcription to a private, searchable local archive instead of throwing it away.
Granola
55Note-taker that merges your typing with the transcript
has a free tier
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Not named as direct replacements — the neighbours in the same part of the catalog, best-rated first.
Free automatic transcription for audio and video files, with speaker labels and TXT or SRT export, from Riverside.
Speech-to-text API priced by the hour of audio
Browser transcription for 15 audio formats with speaker labels and SRT/VTT export, sold as prepaid minute packs.
Forward a WhatsApp voice note and get a transcript and summary back in the same chat
Transcribes audio and video, then lets you full-text search the transcript and question it in chat.
A WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger bot that transcribes forwarded voice messages into text.
Cross-app dictation tool that transcribes speech to text and adapts tone per destination app, processed on-device.
Deepgram
57Low-latency speech recognition and voice agent API
Browser transcription service that turns uploaded audio/video or social links into editable, timestamped text and subtitles.
Voice dictation for desktop that cleans up filler words and works inside any app.
Freeway
69A free Mac hotkey app that turns spoken words into typed text in whatever app you're using.
Harker
69Local, offline dictation for any Mac app, with an optional AI layer for style and grammar cleanup.
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