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FastScribe
Transcribe audio to text free. Your audio, deleted instantly
FastScribe turns audio and video into timestamped text. Drop a file, get a transcript with TXT, SRT and VTT export. Two things make it different. Your first file needs no account at all, and your audio never reaches a third-party AI service: transcription runs on a machine wholly-owned, and the file is deleted the moment your transcript is ready. Free: first file with no signup, then 5 a day with an account. Pro is $12/month for files up to 2 GB and 5 hours, batch uploads and DOCX export.
I built this because every transcription tool I tried wanted an account before it would tell me whether it was any good, and most of them are a web form in front of somebody else's speech API. Your recording gets handled by two companies and you agree to both retention policies.
So, FastScribe runs on wholly-owned server with a full suite of GPUs, CPUs, etc. Your file is uploaded, transcribed on that machine with no outbound network call, and the audio is deleted the moment the text exists. No third-party AI service ever receives it.
Being straight about the limits, because I would rather you find out from me:
- No speaker labels yet. You add those in the review pass. It is the current thing I am building.
- It is machine transcription, so it makes mistakes. Clear audio transcribes well, a meeting recorded across a room does not, and no tool fixes that.
- The transcript text is kept so you can come back to it.
- If your requirement is that the audio never leaves your own machine, no hosted service meets that, mine included. There is a guide on the site for running transcription yourself, including where it gets painful.
Your first file is free with no account, so judge it on your own audio rather than my description. Happy to answer anything today.
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About FastScribe on Product Hunt
“Transcribe audio to text free. Your audio, deleted instantly”
FastScribe was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #124 on the daily leaderboard. FastScribe turns audio and video into timestamped text. Drop a file, get a transcript with TXT, SRT and VTT export. Two things make it different. Your first file needs no account at all, and your audio never reaches a third-party AI service: transcription runs on a machine wholly-owned, and the file is deleted the moment your transcript is ready. Free: first file with no signup, then 5 a day with an account. Pro is $12/month for files up to 2 GB and 5 hours, batch uploads and DOCX export.
FastScribe was featured in Productivity (658.2k followers), Privacy (11.3k followers) and Audio (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 164.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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