Best AI tools for speech to text

AudioCraft

Audio · MusicGen, AudioGen, EnCodec

8.2

Meta's open-source research toolkit for generating music and sound effects from text via a single autoregressive language model.

Respeecher

Audio · Proprietary Respeecher voice models

8.1

Studio-grade AI voice cloning and TTS used by Hollywood productions for speech-to-speech and dubbing work.

Hume AI

Audio · Octave, EVI, TADA

8.0

Emotionally intelligent voice AI with expressive TTS, speech-to-speech, and human-feedback evaluation APIs.

Sesame

Audio · Sesame CSM (1B / 3B / 8B)

8.0

Conversational voice AI aiming to cross the uncanny valley with context-aware, emotionally aware speech.

WellSaid

Audio · Proprietary WellSaid TTS

8.0

Enterprise-grade AI text-to-speech built on licensed voice actor recordings.

Wispr Flow

Audio

8.0

System-wide voice-to-text dictation that auto-edits filler words and learns your jargon.

Deepgram

Audio · Nova, Flux, Speak (proprietary)

7.9

Production-grade speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice-agent APIs for real-time and batch audio.

Voicebox

Audio · Multi-model (Chatterbox, Qwen TTS, Whisper, etc.)

7.4

Open-source desktop voice studio for local cloning, dictation, and giving MCP agents a voice.

Azure AI Speech (Neural TTS)

Audio · Azure Neural TTS (plus HD and Azure OpenAI voices)

7.3

Microsoft's enterprise-grade neural text-to-speech with 100+ languages, custom brand voices, and SSML control.

Dia

Audio · Dia-1.6B

7.3

Open-weights 1.6B text-to-dialogue model that generates ultra-realistic multi-speaker conversations in one pass.

LOVO AI

Audio · Proprietary (LOVO Pro V2 voices)

7.2

Text-to-speech and voice cloning platform with 500+ voices, an integrated video editor, and a developer API.

Veritone Voice

Audio · Proprietary (Veritone aiWARE)

7.2

Enterprise-grade voice cloning and synthesis platform built for broadcasters, studios, and large media operations.

AI Song Maker

Audio · Multi-model (ACE-Step, MusicGen, DiffRhythm, Riffusion)

7.1

Browser-based song generator that wraps multiple open music models behind a single freemium UI.

iSpeech

Audio

7.0

Veteran cloud TTS and speech recognition API with broad SDK and language coverage.

Loudly

Audio · Proprietary Loudly AI

7.0

AI music generator with royalty-free output, stem splitting, and distribution to Spotify and friends.

MockingBird

Audio · GE2E + Tacotron + HiFi-GAN/WaveRNN/Fre-GAN

7.0

Open-source Mandarin-first voice cloning that mimics a speaker from a 5-second sample.

Remusic

Audio · Remusic V4 Pro (proprietary)

7.0

All-in-one AI music studio that bundles song generation, voice cloning, stem splitting, and karaoke tools.

ZenMic

Audio

7.0

Text-to-podcast generator with multi-speaker AI voices and RSS publishing.

Murf AI

Audio · Murf Gen2 / Murf Falcon

6.9

Studio-grade text-to-speech and real-time voice agents with 200+ voices across 35+ languages.

WhisperAPI

Audio · OpenAI Whisper

6.9

Hosted OpenAI Whisper transcription with a pay-as-you-go API and drop-in web dashboard.

Audify AI

Audio · OpenAI TTS (tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-mini-tts)

6.8

Pay-as-you-go web wrapper around OpenAI's text-to-speech voices.

Fish Audio

Audio · Fish Audio S2.1 Pro (in-house); S1 and S2 checkpoints open-sourced

Expressive, emotion-controllable text-to-speech and voice cloning with an open-model heritage

Horch

Audio · Whisper (local) for transcription; optional Ollama / MLX local LLMs for summarization

Privacy-first, on-device meeting assistant for macOS

Kyutai Moshi

Audio · Moshi (7B-class speech-text foundation model) + Mimi neural audio codec, in-house by Kyutai

Open-source, full-duplex speech-to-speech foundation model with sub-200ms latency