Velma Transcribe by Modulate
Overview
Modulate Transcription API is designed to offer real-world audio transcription, instead of just processing studio recordings. It prides itself on understanding real conversations, handling audio with background noise, overlapping speakers, various accents and emotions.
This API is built with developers in mind and carries the advantage of offering a significantly lower cost for its services when compared with industry standards.
Offering start-to-finish service, Modulate's API bases its functionality on over 500 million hours of conversation training data. It provides real-time streaming support, and promises clear, easy-to-follow documentation and easy onboarding for faster adoption.
The API also provides data redaction for personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), offering an additional layer of user security.
Accent detection, emotion detection and diarization are a few other features. Additionally, Modulate supports over 70 languages, making it a flexible tool for global use.
The API serves as the foundation for other upcoming features such as deepfake detection and conversation understanding, enhancing its utility and potential applications.
Furthermore, Modulate promises teams switching to it will witness higher real-world audio accuracy and fewer post-transcription corrections, potentially reducing infrastructure costs.
Its focus isn't limited to transcription, but extends to providing insights to aid in conversation analysis.
Supported features
Key Features
- #1 Accuracy On Ami Meeting Transcription Benchmark
- Up To 10× Lower Cost Than Competing Speech Apis
- Real-time Streaming Transcription With Sub-second Latency
- Batch Transcription For Large Audio Pipelines
- Designed For Messy, Conversational, Real-world Audio
- Trained On 500m+ Hours Of Voice Conversations
- Structured Output For Ai Pipelines And Llm Workflows
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Mery🙏 82 karmaMay 16, 2025@AssemblyAIOne of the most accurate API's I've used for speech to text and summarization. Cost effective w/ bulk contracts too. -
Unlimited transcripts, summaries, 99.8% accuracy, speaker recognition, superfastI already have another transcription tool, but this one is much better. I love the different features such as the summary, quiz, and chapters. It does a great job of them. I've only done one transcript so far to try it out, but I'm truly impressed and am going to grab another code. A couple things that would make it even better are: - the ability to rename the files and organize them through folders. - the ability to download a copy of the other features as well as the transcript. Copying and pasting it works, but doesn't keep the format. -
🎯 3 free transcripts every day. 🔥 Unlimited transcription starting at $10/mo.No other tool quite like this, it's pretty straightforward. Needed to extract a long interview from YouTube and it extracted everything, providing it in different meaningful formats in less than two minutes. Awesome
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Private dictation, cloud optionalthe founder is cool, definitely a recommendation if you have personal requests and grow the app along with you.
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