📝 AI Meeting Notes & Transcription
Best AI transcription for interviews & podcasts
Ranked for one job: transcribing interviews and podcasts with several speakers. Tools are ordered only by their test score for this job.
No ranking yet — testing has not been completed for this job
We only rank tools after running our standardized test tasks for this job. Until then we list the candidates alphabetically and show our scoring weights in advance, so you can see exactly how they will be judged. Subscribe below to be told when results are published.
Our picks
Each pick is computed from test data for this job. Empty slots stay empty until we have results.
Best overall
Basis: Weighted job score (0–100)
Best value
Basis: Price/value dimension
Best for beginners
Basis: Ease-of-use dimension
Best for professionals
Basis: Avg. of quality, features, customization
Best free option
Basis: Job score, tools with a verified free plan
Best for speed
Basis: Speed dimension (measured)
Best for quality
Basis: Quality dimension
In our first test round
Unranked — listed alphabetically. Chosen from real buyer searches, not from who pays us. Inclusion is not an endorsement.
- –NOT YET TESTED
- –Fireflies.aiNOT YET TESTED
Fireflies.ai · AI meeting note-taker and conversation search.
Price: from $18/moFree plan: YesRound 1
- –GranolaNOT YET TESTED
Granola, Inc. · AI notepad for meetings that works without a meeting bot.
Price: from $14/moFree plan: YesRound 1
- –Otter.aiNOT YET TESTED
Otter.ai · AI meeting assistant for transcripts and notes.
Price: from $16.99/moFree plan: YesRound 1
- –Read AINOT YET TESTED
Read AI · AI meeting notes, summaries and analytics.
Price: from $19.75/moFree plan: YesRound 1
- –tl;dvNOT YET TESTED
tl;dv · Meeting recorder and AI notes for Google Meet, Zoom and Teams.
Price: from $18/moFree plan: YesRound 1
- –ZoomMate (Zoom's AI assistant)NOT YET TESTED
Zoom · Zoom's built-in AI assistant — our 'is the built-in good enough?' baseline.
Price: from $18.33/moFree plan: YesVersion: ZoomMateRound 1
Also tracked (not in this test round)
Facts and pricing only. Alphabetical.
- –AssemblyAINOT YET TESTED
AssemblyAI · Speech-to-text and audio intelligence API.
Price: API from $0.15/hrFree plan: Yes
- –NOT YET TESTED
- –DescriptNOT YET TESTED
Descript · Audio and video editor that edits via the transcript.
Price: from $24/moFree plan: Yes
- –OpenAI GPT-TranscribeNOT YET TESTED
OpenAI · speech-to-text API
Price: API from $0.0045/minFree plan: Not yet verified
- –NOT YET TESTED
- –NOT YET TESTED
Evidence: raw outputs, side by side
Same input for every tool. We publish the first output (no cherry-picking), with the date, plan and model version used, plus a SHA-256 hash of the file.
When the test round runs, each task appears here as a row with one column per tool (planned tasks: STT-03, STT-04, STT-12).
What we measure for this job
Objective metrics recorded by our test harness (same inputs for every tool). Raw outputs are archived as evidence.
Same prompts and inputs for every tool, repeated runs, wall-clock time, cost per task and failure rate — plus job-specific automatic checks.
NOT YET TESTED
What we judge for this job
Subjective assessment by our evaluators, blind where possible. This is opinion, labelled as such — not a measured fact.
Output quality and prompt adherence, rated by multiple evaluators (blind where possible) on a published rubric.
NOT YET TESTED