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Aleksei Aleinikov
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🎙️ 5 Best APIs for Speech Transcription in 2025

Need fast & accurate transcription for your audio or video files? 🗣️💬
I tested 5 top APIs to see how they handle real-world audio:
🚀 Fireworks – Super-fast, but may skip faint speech due to VAD.
🔍 Nexara – High accuracy, solid for long recordings.
💰 DeepInfra – Budget-friendly but occasional failures.
🌍 OpenAI Whisper – Great multilingual support but has a 25MB upload limit.
🛠️ AssemblyAI – Packed with extra features like topic detection & moderation.
💡 Which one should you use?
Find out in my full breakdown!
📖 Read here:
https://blog.devgenius.io/5-best-apis-for-speech-transcription-in-2025-10f441ee630d

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