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New: text-to-speech from the same wallet. Paste any text — or a transcript you just translated — pick an OpenAI or ElevenLabs voice, preview it free, and download a natural MP3 voiceover. One pay-as-you-go balance covers transcription, translation, captions and voice.
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As answered by people managing Speecho and Privocio.
Speecho's answer
Most transcription tools are subscriptions with monthly minute quotas — great for daily users, wasteful for everyone else. If you transcribe a few interviews, lectures or meetings a month, pay-as-you-go credits are simply cheaper: no monthly fee, no expiring minutes. And it is one tool for the whole pipeline: transcripts with speaker labels and timestamps, AI summaries, chat with your recordings, auto-chapters, styled video captions and real-time live subtitles with translation.
Speecho's answer
People with occasional recordings who do not want another subscription: journalists transcribing interviews, researchers doing qualitative studies, podcasters and YouTubers making show notes and captions, students with lecture recordings, and teams that need an odd meeting or sales call written down.
Speecho's answer
Pricing model, mostly: there is no subscription. You top up from $5, pay $0.83–$1.25 per hour of audio, and credits never expire — so occasional use costs nothing between projects. Speecho also extracts the audio track from video right in your browser (long videos upload fast), and it is private by default: files are processed for transcription only and never stored, transcripts auto-delete after 90 days. The same wallet now covers text-to-speech: paste a script or a translated transcript and get a natural MP3 voiceover.
Speecho's answer
Speecho is built and run by a solo indie founder. It started from a simple frustration: needing a couple of recordings transcribed and finding only subscription tools priced for daily use. So Speecho went the other way — top up once, use it when you need it, credits never expire. Launched in 2026, it grew from plain transcription into summaries, chat with recordings, video captions, real-time live subtitles — and now text-to-speech.
Speecho's answer
A TypeScript stack: React web app, Node.js backend and an Astro landing site. Transcription runs on state-of-the-art AI speech models (OpenAI, Groq, Replicate), with Soniox powering real-time live subtitles. Audio extraction from video happens client-side in the browser. Text-to-speech runs on OpenAI and ElevenLabs voices.
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