VOICE / SPEECH / MUSIC
AssemblyAI
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Pricing
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How we rated it
What it is
Transcription plus the layer on top: speaker separation, summaries, topic detection, sentiment and redaction of personal data, all through one API.
Who it is for
Teams who need more than the words — who is speaking, what it was about, what to remove before storing it.
Where it is strongest
Call recordings that have to be analysed and stored. The automatic redaction of names and card numbers is the feature that saves real work, because doing it by hand does not scale.
Where it falls short
Slower than Deepgram on live audio. The analysis features are good rather than excellent, and you will still check summaries. And the extras are priced separately, so the bill is not the transcription price you compared.
Our verdict
Recommended when you need the analysis as well as the text. For raw speed, Deepgram; for a meeting you attended, a finished product.
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