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
71Meeting notepad that captures computer audio without a bot and merges your typed notes with the transcript into a summary.
has a free tier · has a public API
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Not named as direct replacements — neighbours from the same part of the catalog: the best-rated first, then a sample of the rest.
Konch
83Transcribes audio and video in 56 languages, with optional human certification in 24 to 48 hours
Mac and iOS dictation app that turns speech into polished text and can insert it directly into other apps.
Vocova
77Web app that transcribes audio or video from files or platform links into text, subtitles, and translations.
Verli
59Real-time speech translation and transcription for meetings, videos, and lectures across 60+ languages.
A WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger bot that transcribes forwarded voice messages into text.
Forward a WhatsApp voice note and get a transcript and summary back in the same chat
Harker
69Local, offline dictation for any Mac app, with an optional AI layer for style and grammar cleanup.
Hotkey dictation for Mac, Windows, Linux and phones that reshapes what you say to fit the app it lands in
Freeway
69A free Mac hotkey app that turns spoken words into typed text in whatever app you're using.
soink
77Voice keyboard for Mac that transcribes, edits, and sends messages by voice across any app.
Free automatic transcription for audio and video files, with speaker labels and TXT or SRT export, from Riverside.
Sonix
71Transcription, translation and subtitles with a browser editor
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