Gladia alternative on Speak AI

Transcription APIs
with a UI built in.

Speak AI ships Gladia-class transcription APIs, real-time output and speaker diarization included, plus the player, library, and embeddable recorder most teams end up building anyway. We build it with you.

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PR
Priya R. 00:31
We built a player, a library, and a recorder on top of Gladia’s API ourselves. It works, but it’s three separate systems to maintain.
PR
Priya R. 01:07
Can we keep the diarization and real-time output without re-architecting the whole stack?
Runs on the models and connects to the tools you already use
Claude ChatGPT Gemini Zoom Teams Meet Slack Zapier and hundreds more
95%+
Transcription accuracy
100+
Supported languages
100+
MCP tools for your AI
6
Ways to capture
Proof

The wins teams ship.

Time to a live product, hours saved per file, and dollars saved. Same platform, very different applications.

$100K+
saved · 8 months faster

Legal tech company builds a white-label deposition platform, 8 months faster.

Legal · White-label platform
$100K+
saved · 983 hours

Global research agency launches a white-label qualitative research platform.

Research · White-label platform
$700K+
saved · 5,100+ hours

Legal intelligence firm processes 5,100+ hours of carrier calls, 95% faster.

Legal · Intelligence at scale
$190K+
saved · 10,000+ hours

Healthcare consulting firm cut session processing from 8 hours to 0.3.

Healthcare · Consulting
$185K+
saved · 3,700+ hours

E-commerce manufacturer centralizes call review and cuts it by 85%.

E-Commerce · Manufacturing
96%
faster · 1,100+ hours

Recruiting firm cuts candidate report time from 5 hours to 10 minutes.

Recruiting · Reporting
The free consult

Bring your Gladia setup. Leave with a migration plan.

A working session, not a sales pitch. No obligation.

Step 1

You bring a real file

An audio file, a call recording, or your current Gladia API response. Whatever your team transcribes today.

Step 2

We map your API surface

The endpoints you call, the fields you parse, the UI you had to build around them. Your integration, your terms.

Step 3

You see it transcribed, live

Your own file, transcribed and diarized in the console, plus the player and library it lands in automatically.

One engine, every team

Transcription APIs for every kind of product.

The same transcription and diarization engine, pointed at the audio your product actually handles.

Developer platforms

Product-embedded transcription

Ship a Gladia-class API plus the player, library, and recorder your users expect, without building the UI stack.

Customer service

Support call transcription

Every support call transcribed and diarized automatically, searchable in one library instead of a folder of files.

Media & content

Caption & content pipelines

Batch transcription for podcasts, video, and interviews, with speaker labels and exports ready for publishing.

Legal

Evidentiary transcription

Recordings transcribed and diarized with a defensible audit trail your team can retrieve on request.

Research

Interview transcription

Qualitative interviews transcribed, coded, and searchable across an entire study.

Agencies

White-label transcription products

Resell transcription and diarization under your own brand, on your own domain, with the API and the UI included.

A different approach to Gladia-class transcription.

Gladia transcription is a solid choice if all you need is the raw API: speech-to-text, translation, and speaker diarization returned as structured output. Teams evaluating it for that reason are usually right that the transcription itself will work. The gap shows up a step later, once the API response has to become something a non-technical teammate can open, search, and share.

Why a transcription API alone isn’t enough

A pure transcription API hands back words and speaker boundaries. It does not hand back a player a client can scrub through, a library a support team can search by date or tag, or a recorder a product can embed without months of frontend work. Most teams that start with an API-only tool end up building all three anyway, then maintaining them alongside the API itself. Speak AI starts where that gap opens: the transcription and diarization ship with the player, library, and recorder already built.

Reading the recording, not just returning words

Every file is transcribed in your language, with 100+ supported, and the recording itself is analyzed alongside the words: pacing, tone, and energy in the audio, not just the transcript text. Speaker boundaries are auto-detected and labeled by order of first appearance, with confidence scores and timestamps. You can stream output in real time or fetch it after completion, and everything is stored encrypted, versioned, and retrievable by API key or the web player.

Then the questions start. Ask across your entire transcript history with AI chat, using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini built in, instead of exporting text into a separate tool every time someone needs an answer.

Signals you’ve outgrown a transcription-only API

  • Your recording workflow needs to ship in weeks, not the months it takes to build a player and library from an API response.
  • Your users expect a player and a searchable library, not a raw JSON transcript.
  • You want to embed a recorder into your product without building it from scratch.
  • Cost transparency matters more than stitching together separate point solutions for capture, storage, and playback.
  • Your team already uses ChatGPT or Claude and wants to query recordings without exporting first.

The result is a transcript library that behaves like a product instead of an export folder: trends across hundreds of files become a report instead of a manual scan, and dashboards you can customize and white-label track volume, sentiment, and speaker time over time, so this month’s recordings are measured against last month’s. One legal intelligence firm ran its carrier call volume through this exact workflow, described in the large-scale comparative analysis, and processed 5,100+ hours 95% faster without adding headcount. Migrating off Gladia is a straightforward export-and-import, and because the same engine also powers call scoring and connects to Claude and other agents through the MCP server, the transcripts you migrate are immediately usable well beyond transcription.

Your fields, auto-extracted
Primary painManual review time
Switching trigger6 hrs / interview
SentimentPositive
Close score8.4 / 10
Theme frequency across 42 interviews
Engineered with you

Engineered with you, accurate from day one.

A generic AI tool starts from zero. We shape the fields, endpoints, and prompts around how your product actually uses transcription, then prime the application on a sample of your existing recordings so accuracy holds from the first real file. You get structured data back, not just a transcript.

  • We design the context, fields, and scoring around your transcription workflow, not a generic API contract.
  • Your historical recordings and transcripts prime the knowledge base before go-live.
  • Structured data on every recording, queryable from Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor through the MCP server.
Unified capture

One system of record for everything your team says.

In-person and virtual, in one place. No stitching together a meeting tool, a voice recorder, and three other apps. Speak AI captures it all into one searchable knowledge base your applications are built on.

Meeting Assistant
Auto-joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Webex.
Embeddable Recorder
Drop a branded recorder into any site, portal, or intake form.
iOS & Android apps
Record in the field, on the go, anywhere you meet. White-label available.
Upload, phone & voice agents
Drag in audio or video, transcribe inbound calls, or let an agent run the conversation.
Meeting Bot
virtual
Recorder
in-person
Mobile App
field
Embed
web
Upload
files
Voice Agent
calls
One Speak AI library
Transcribed, structured, searchable, shareable
Built to stay flexible

One platform. Not one model.

A single-engine API locks you to one transcription model. Speak AI picks the right model, speech engine, and language for each file type and team, so your applications are never locked to a single vendor.

Models

Multi-model

Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Your choice per task, or bring your own key.

Speech

Multi-engine

Transcription routed across multiple engines for your audio, accents, and terms.

Language

100+ languages

Transcribe and translate in and out, for global and multilingual teams.

Integrations

MCP, API & integrations

100+ MCP tools and an integrations layer that connects to hundreds of apps you already run.

★★★★★  4.9 on G2

Teams build on Speak AI.

Real feedback from teams using Speak AI for research, transcription, meetings, and client work.

"We went from weeks of qualitative analysis to one day. Easy to use, easy to implement, and the support has been incredible."
C
Connor H.
Data & Impact Analyst
★★★★★ Verified G2 review
"High accuracy, multilingual support, and insightful analysis. Integrations with Google and Zapier make it easy to streamline everything."
V
Volker B.
COO, Small Business
★★★★★ Verified G2 review
"I use Speak AI in French and English for meetings up to two hours. It saves time and increases the precision of my reports."
F
Francois L.
Financial Advisor
★★★★★ Verified G2 review
"I used to spend 45 minutes transcribing notes. Now it is done in seconds, and I am writing in minutes."
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Ted H.
Owner, Small Business
★★★★★ Verified G2 review
"Simple to use for meetings. Makes it easy to take minutes and turn them into a clean, shareable report."
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Naison S.
Project Manager
★★★★★ Verified G2 review
"It is easy to use, and I can actually get in contact with the team behind the product. Valuable to speak to a real human."
M
Markus B.
Medical Director
★★★★★ Verified G2 review

Questions we get

Your first scorecard runs on a real recording during the consult. Team rollout takes days, not months, because we build it with you and prime it on your existing recordings.

Pooled usage, not per-seat, with no volume minimums. Pilots are credited in full. We scope pricing for your exact workflow on the call.

Speak AI handles 100+ languages, including conversations that switch language mid-sentence, and can translate in and out.

Yes. White-label deployments run on your own domain with your logo, including client platforms agencies resell, plus branded iOS and Android apps.

Gladia and Whisper are both capable transcription engines; Gladia layers diarization and streaming on top of a Whisper-class core. Speak AI routes transcription across multiple engines, including Whisper-class models, and pairs the output with diarization, a player, and a library, so you are not choosing between engines, you are getting the full stack.

Free single-file tools work for occasional use but usually cap length, accuracy, or export formats. Speak AI offers a free account so you can test real transcription and diarization on your own audio before committing to API usage.

Gladia prices per hour of audio processed, with a free tier for testing. Speak AI also charges a transparent per-hour rate, with no platform fee or per-seat pricing, bundled with the player, library, and recorder. See our pricing page for current rates.

Gladia is used to add speech-to-text, translation, and speaker diarization to a product through an API. Teams evaluating it for that use case often also need a way to surface the output: a player, a searchable library, and an embeddable recorder, which Speak AI ships alongside comparable transcription and diarization.

Enterprise builds support BAAs, custom data processing agreements, SSO, and data residency options. We share security documentation on request and scope each build to your requirements.

From a Gladia API key to a full transcription stack.

Book a free consult, bring a real audio file, and watch it transcribed and diarized in the console before the meeting ends. Consults include early access to new features, an extended trial, and implementation credits.

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