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A desktop AI assistant that captures meetings, messages and work tools to produce transcripts, summaries, daily briefs and drafted follow-ups. The free plan includes 10 hours of meeting transcription and 500 chat credits a month; paid plans add more.
Freelance transcription, captioning and subtitle work. Posted pay ranges from $0.40 to $1.10 per audio minute for transcription, paid weekly by PayPal, with a short skills test and sample.
Why I recommend it: Rev's page says applications are waitlisted because of high volume. Per-minute pay can work out to modest hourly earnings depending on how fast you work. No minimum hours.
OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model and command-line tool, free to download and run on your own machine. MIT licensed.
From the site: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision - openai/whisper
Why I recommend it: The original. Slower than whisper.cpp on a laptop, but the reference version and simple to install with Python.
A fast, dependency-light rewrite of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text that runs on ordinary laptop hardware, including CPU only. MIT licensed.
From the site: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++. Contribute to ggml-org/whisper.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.
Why I recommend it: Transcribe interviews or your own practice answers privately, without paying a per-minute transcription service.
