I'm currently eyeing Anti-Joy which operates on a similar model as DistroKid, just better value. The downside is they're very new but the founder is active and responsive on Reddit. They feel like how DistroKid was ~5 years ago before it became increasingly difficult to get in touch with a human. Source: over 1 year ago

You should check out Anti-Joy. We offer unlimited music distribution for just $7.99 per year. We also have extra features like AI mastering, pre-save links, fast distribution, amazing support, etc. It's the best Distrokid alternative. You'll love it. Source: over 2 years ago

📋 This means I should have prepared a transcript of the audio I've included above. Have you ever typed up your own transcript? It takes a good amount of effort and time, and a helpful transcription app, that my clients would probably not pay for. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

To start, I have a $20/ yr "manual" transcription license for Transcribe by Wreally. Once I saw that other folks were interested in transcripts too, I set up an automatic transcription for the first episode - it tends to work alright, but also needs some manual revising and editing after it finishes processing. Source: about 3 years ago

This is the main reason we still have a local-only mode in our transcription web app [1]. We play the audio/video file directly from the user’s computer, and we use local storage to store typed text in users’ computers. This way no transcription data leaves users’ computers. We’ve been working on it for over a decade and we did add machine transcription recently, but I still find a surprising number of users use... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago