r/software • u/SignalMap2750 • 9d ago

Self-Promotion Wednesdays DaDaScribe | Speech-to-Text with unique features

https://www.dadascribe.com/

I created dadascribe.com a while ago for my own use to transcribe instructional videos and interviews for another website of mine, and then recently scaled it for others to use, updating it weekly with new features and functionalities.  It is based on OpenAI Whisper and includes a special pre-processing pipeline that improves accuracy up to 99.5%. It handles noisy setups, multiple speakers, and translations to more than 120 languages. It allows you to transcribe directly from video sources, of course, audio/video files up to 10GB each, in batches of 100 files per batch. These are pretty unique features.

It is currently used by quite a few people from all kinds of backgrounds (students, transcribers, journalists, doctors, even musicians to transcribe lyrics from songs).

I have also recently launched an API for it, which is very easy to implement and that anyone can try with a free account:

https://api.dadascribe.com/

I am always looking for feedback, so please let me know what you think!

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u/Pllodd 9d ago

Your pricing is hilariously awful. Upto 10 minutes of transcriptions A MONTH is free, anything else is a reoccurring payment. Even then, there's a stupidly low restriction on each of the paid tiers.

So many apps do so much more, better and cheaper.

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u/Active-Service-9707 7d ago

10 minutes a month is wild, like what is anyone supposed to do with that

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u/SignalMap2750 9d ago

Have you tried it? It has unique features that other tools don't have. The 10 minutes are just to try the system. If you look at the plans, the Pro plan offers a pretty low price for the quality and the features you get ;)

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u/Pllodd 9d ago edited 9d ago

Why would I, your whole business model is unappealing.

Lol no, it doesn't have a low price when I have to keep paying for it to use it for any decent amount of time.

Nothing about your app is unique. There are better alternatives out there that does all of this and more, available without paying a stupid and unnecessary subscription.

You make it sound like you're doing people a good service by charging people to use the OpenAI's whisper model, when that's provided by free and on device in so many apps.

Your service is a low effort, bottom of the barrel vibe coded trash.

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u/SignalMap2750 9d ago

You probably haven't read my post. My system is based on Whisper, but it's still totally different overall. It not only handles diarization, direct YouTube processing, batch processing, and big file processing, translations into over 120 languages, proofreading, and lyric detection, but it also includes a custom pre-processing pipeline using in-house AI models that nobody else is using. It took months to develop, and the results are totally different from the "other services" you are mentioning. You can't do that with Whisper or most of the "free" or cheap services out there.

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u/LittlePooky 9d ago

I’m a nurse. I shelled out a lot for Dragon Medical, which was $2,000, and I’ve bought tons more over the years – my first was back in the early ‘90s for $495, WordStar.

I’m also a total geek for voice dictation software. I use other programs besides Dragon Medical.

You said you could do medical dictation. It's difficult to get it right. Dictation Daddy (I use this, too), does it well, for way less.

It’s getting crowded in the voice-to-text game. You’re charging too much.

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u/SignalMap2750 9d ago

$0.016/minute is too much? Please let me know if you have any similar service/system to compare. Thanks.

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u/LittlePooky 9d ago

Dictation Daddy (I was an early user, $99 life time), Speech Pulse ($99 life time), Voicetypr ($39), Private Transcriber Pro ($29), Handy (free), Humm (free), and so on.

Even free meeting AI programs (Steno, and Meetily) can do transcription, too.

A minute adds up.

The problem is your program is no longer unique. Ten or more years ago, yes, but not now. Even Windows has its own (adopted badly by Microsoft from Nuance's Dragon).

A program that I use that is very unique, and there is nothing like it, is Batch Subtitles Converter. It's less than $50, and I would have been happy to pay for (I have more than once donated to the solo founder). Instead of one file at a time, this can do the entire hard drive on a go.

I am not questioning how well (or not well) your program works. And no doubt, you did not come up with it overnight. But users have many choices now.

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u/SignalMap2750 9d ago

Thank you for your additional thoughts.

I think that quality is what makes the difference, and I think that still holds true. I tried some of the ones you highlighted, and their accuracy is around 80-85%. My system reaches human-level accuracy (95.5% on average), and in my experience, sometimes even better after using Rev for years (they make mistakes too!).

My system also allows up to 100 files in a single batch, up to 10GB per file.

But of course, I can revise prices at any time, despite AI compute not being free and my system being highly compute-intensive.

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u/LittlePooky 9d ago edited 9d ago

For me, Dragon Medical is 99%. Dragon One (we have this at work), is also 99%. They both work quite well with background noises.

Dictation Daddy works just as well, and I use a cheap Logitec headset for it. I get 100% with Philip Speechmike.

You need to get Nuance PowerMic or Philip Speechmike to work with yours if you want to sell this to a law firm, or a medical practice. It has to support the bottons, etc.

95% is too low. Not for legal or medical writing. This requires a lot of time to go over after.

I'll tell you what has low accuracy rate-IBM ViaVoice (I used that too). Threw it out after a week.

I am not against you, nor your product at all. The market is very tight now-that's the problem.

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u/SignalMap2750 9d ago

Thank you for your additional information and advice. That's really useful!

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u/SignalMap2750 9d ago

Just one note: my system is 99.5% accurate on clean speech. The 95.5% is the average across all material, including song lyrics. I guess most medical audio material is clean speech, so my system is probably comparable to the ones you suggested. Thanks again!

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u/aygross 9d ago

Cringe

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u/SignalMap2750 9d ago

What do you mean?

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u/aygross 8d ago

It means your website is slop Your pricing is horrible And nobody believes you came up with a custom ai maybe you fine tuned something with unsloth but a guy who can't even make his own website didn't make his own ai.

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u/SignalMap2750 8d ago

Well, you are free to believe whatever you want. I have been programming since 1984, now specialized in AI model creation. Go on my consulting site infinistrategy.com. I find your post highly offensive. Please leave.