AI and media

Speech to text: tools for AI agents

Transcribe audio and video files into text. The best matches among the MCP servers, command-line tools, web APIs and Claude Code plugins AptLynx checks every night, working ones first.

MCP servers

• Andreax: transcribe Working at last check
  Transcribe an audio file to text (speech-to-text) with LOCAL Whisper, automatic language detection. For agents processing voice notes, calls or podcasts.…
• Freetts: transcribe_audio Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Turn a recording into text with FreeTTS speech to text. Give a public https URL to an audio file (mp3, wav, m4a, ogg, webm). Needs a connected FreeTTS PRO…
• Arabic Pipeline: audio_transcribe Working at last check
  Transcribe an audio file to clean text (Arabic or English).
• Youraitools Transcribe: transcribe_audio Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Speech-to-text for a public MP3 or WAV file (audio_url, up to 30 minutes): transcript, detected language, timestamped segments and optional SRT/VTT subtitles…
• Tryslicemedia Slice: transcribe_audio Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Use this when the user wants the words: speech in an audio or video file turned into text, from a podcast, interview, lecture, meeting or voice note. Accepts…
• Web Tools: transcribe_audio Working at last check
  Transcribe a public direct audio file URL (mp3, wav, m4a, ogg/opus, flac; max 25 MB and 10 minutes, checked from the file header before transcription) with…
• Blackwood State: blackwood_audio_transcribe Working at last check
  Use when you need speech to text transcription or translation of an audio file at a public URL. Do not use for audio over 10 MB or speaker labels. Returns…
• Audio To Text Api Working at last check
  convert mp3 to text
• Arch Tools: transcribe-audio Working at last check
  Transcribe audio files to text via OpenAI Whisper. Supports 100+ languages.
• Agent Media Toolkit: transcribe Working at last check
  Transcribe an audio/video URL to timestamped text. Premium (via x402).
• Falaai: transcribe_audio Working at last check
  Transcribes one uploaded audio file into text with speaker diarization and timestamped audio events (laughs, sighs, pauses), returning the full transcript, a…
• PodcastsToText Verified publisher · Needs a sign-in or key
  Transcribe podcasts, YouTube and audio, then make show notes, chapters and translations.
• Bulk Transcription: Audio & Video to Text from CSV or Sheet Needs a sign-in or key
  Transcribe every audio or video link in a list: plain text, or speakers, timestamps and SRT
• Verifylite: transcribe_audio Working at last check
  Speech-to-text for one audio or video file by URL, using Whisper (turbo) on a GPU. Returns the full transcript, timed segments, ready-made SRT and WebVTT…
• Oruk Speech: oruk_transcribe_audio Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Transcribe prerecorded English audio to text with time-ordered segments and word timings. Use this when only the words matter. Accepts…

Command-line tools

• sox
  SOund eXchange: universal sound sample translator
• distill-cli
  Use AWS Transcribe and Bedrock to create summaries of your audio recordings
• midicsv
  Convert MIDI audio files to human-readable CSV format
• openai-whisper
  General-purpose speech recognition model
• atg
  Convert transcripts between different file formats
• MeetMic
  Audio transcription tool

Web APIs

• Media API
  The Media API can be used to query, download and delete media items such as audio files for use with other Nexmo APIs.
• Amazon Transcribe Service
  Amazon Transcribe offers three main types of batch transcription: Standard , Medical , and Call Analytics . Standard transcriptions are the most common…
• Cloud Video Intelligence API
  Detects objects, explicit content, and scene changes in videos. It also specifies the region for annotation and transcribes speech to text. Supports both…
• Cloud Speech-to-Text API
  Converts audio to text by applying powerful neural network models. analytics media
• Freesound
  With the Freesound APIv2 you can browse, search, and retrieve information about Freesound users, packs, and the sounds themselves of course. You can find…
• TAGGUN Receipt OCR Scanning API
  Expects only running software, real reactions, and beautifully crafted APIs to serve your every desire to transcribe a piece of paper to digital form. text

Claude Code plugins

• desktop-commander
  MCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images, and structured data. productivity
• pptx
  Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or…
• pdf
  Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple…
• save-to-spotify
  Create polished audio episodes with TTS narration, rich timelines, cover images, and save them to Spotify via the save-to-spotify CLI. productivity

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Related topics

• Image generation
• Video generation and editing
• Text to speech
• YouTube
• Music and audio
• Translation
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• Calling other AI models
• Research papers

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