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Whisper is Use. OpenAI's open speech-recognition models and code.

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AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI

Speech-to-text with a published hourly rate, plus text to speech.

$50 in free credits. Universal-3.5 Pro pre-recorded is $0.21 an hour. Streaming bills the open socket, not just the audio. Text to speech is $15 per million characters.

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Deepgram

Deepgram

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents.

$200 free credit, then pay as you go. Nova-3 monolingual pre-recorded is $0.0043 a minute. Aura-2 is $0.030 per 1,000 characters.

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Cartesia

Cartesia

Speech models and voice agents sold as credits.

Free is 20,000 credits a month. A $49 plan includes 1.25 million credits. Voice-agent minutes are a separate prepaid balance.

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ElevenLabs Scribe

ElevenLabs

Speech-to-text tools for recorded and real-time transcription, with timestamps and speaker features.

Free and paid shared-credit plans. The speech-to-text page lists plan-specific minutes; Starter is $6/month before taxes after promotion.

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ElevenLabs Text to Speech

ElevenLabs

Speech generation with plan-dependent voice features, credit usage and licensing.

Free $0/month with 10,000 shared credits; Starter $6/month after first-month promotions. Commercial license listed on Starter.

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