GUIDES
In-depth guides on AI transcription, meeting workflows, summarizing recordings, and choosing the right speech-to-text tool.
'Free' transcription usually means 30 minutes, English only, or your data as the price. Here are the genuinely useful free apps to transcribe audio to text — and the exact point each one taps out.
Read guide →Most AI meeting notes apps are built and priced for teams. Here are the best picks for one person — solo pricing, multilingual, private, and no per-seat trap.
Read guide →Fathom for free solo notes, Fireflies for a team knowledge base, Atter AI for multilingual audio and file uploads — a three-way AI meeting notes comparison.
Read guide →Some AI transcription happens on your device; some uploads to a server that promises to behave. Learn the difference, which apps are truly local, and when a private cloud is the honest trade-off.
Read guide →English-first tools mangle Chinese. We compare AI transcription apps on Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin, and the code-switched English that trips most of them up.
Read guide →A '50+ languages' badge means nothing if accuracy collapses outside English. We compare multilingual AI transcription apps on per-language accuracy, code-switching, and Chinese.
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