AI-Media: AI-Media is a global captioning provider whose LEXI engine delivers AI-powered live captions and recorded transcripts for broadcast, events, corporate meetings, and enterprise. Handy: Handy is a free, open-source, cross-platform push-to-talk app that transcribes your speech to text completely offline and pastes it into any text field. The right pick comes down to team size, budget, and the workflows you want to automate.
How Hosiqo compares and tests toolsFinal recommendation
Shortlist AI-Media when adding live captions and translation to corporate virtual meetings, webinars, and town halls on zoom or teams matters most, and Handy when privacy-sensitive voice-to-text where audio must stay on-device matters most. Test each on your own meetings; the right choice tends to become obvious quickly.
AI-Media is a global captioning provider whose LEXI engine delivers AI-powered live captions and recorded transcripts for broadcast, events, corporate meetings, and enterprise.
Handy is a free, open-source, cross-platform push-to-talk app that transcribes your speech to text completely offline and pastes it into any text field.
AI-Media is an established captioning and accessibility technology company whose LEXI toolkit produces AI-powered live captions and recorded transcripts across broadcast, sports, government, education, and corporate settings. For meetings and events, LEXI Text generates real-time automatic captions that can be embedded in Zoom and Microsoft Teams or streamed to any web-enabled device, while LEXI Recorded captions on-demand video and audio. The company also runs a dedicated transcription service that turns recorded interviews, meetings, lectures, and AGMs into editable documents. LEXI Library lets users search, scroll, and edit time-stamped captions during or after a session and download transcripts as txt, docx, json, srt, or webvtt. LEXI Translate adds multilingual captions, and LEXI Voice provides real-time voice translation. Delivery runs over AI-Media's iCap cloud network plus hardware encoders for broadcast workflows. It suits enterprises, broadcasters, venues, and institutions that need accessible, accurate captions and transcripts at scale. Customers span media networks, universities, and parliaments. Pricing is quote-based through the sales team.
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Handy is a free, open-source desktop application that turns your voice into text completely offline, with no audio ever leaving your computer. You press a configurable keyboard shortcut, speak, and release (push-to-talk), or use a toggle mode to start and stop; Handy transcribes what you said and automatically pastes the result into whatever text field is active. Because it runs entirely on-device, it is built for privacy-conscious users who want dictation without cloud uploads or subscriptions. Under the hood it is built with Tauri (a Rust backend with a React/TypeScript frontend) and supports multiple local speech-recognition models, including OpenAI's Whisper variants with GPU acceleration and the CPU-friendly Parakeet V3 model with automatic language detection. Silero Voice Activity Detection filters out silence so only speech is processed. Handy runs on macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux, and is released under the MIT license. It positions itself as an accessible, extensible alternative to paid dictation tools, and is best suited for hands-free typing rather than recording multi-party meetings.
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AI-Media is custom pricing (contact sales); Handy is open source (open source). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | AI-Media | Handy |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | LEXI Text AI-powered live automatic captions for events, webinars, and virtual meetings | Push-to-talk and toggle dictation modes with a configurable global keyboard shortcut |
| Standout feature | LEXI Recorded automated captioning and transcripts for on-demand video and audio | Fully offline, on-device transcription with no cloud uploads |
| Team usage | Dedicated transcription service converting meetings, interviews, and lectures into editable documents | Multiple local speech models including Whisper (GPU-accelerated) and Parakeet V3 (CPU, auto language detection) |
| Integrations | LEXI Library to search, scroll, edit, and archive time-stamped captions during or after sessions | Silero Voice Activity Detection to filter silence and process only speech |
| Languages & capture | Transcript export in txt, docx, json, srt, and webvtt formats | Automatically pastes transcribed text into any active application text field |
| Best-fit workflow | LEXI Translate multilingual captions and LEXI Voice real-time voice translation | Cross-platform desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) built with Tauri |
AI-Media
Choose AI-Media if you need adding live captions and translation to corporate virtual meetings, webinars, and town halls on zoom or teams — strengths include broadcast-grade accuracy from a long-established, publicly listed captioning provider.
Handy
Choose Handy if you need hands-free dictation into emails, documents, chat apps, and code editors — strengths include completely free, open-source (mit) with no subscription or paywall.
AI-Media
Handy
It depends on your workflow. AI-Media is strong for adding live captions and translation to corporate virtual meetings, webinars, and town halls on zoom or teams, while Handy is strong for hands-free dictation into emails, documents, chat apps, and code editors. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
AI-Media is custom pricing and Handy is open source. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
Yes. Many teams run more than one meeting assistant when the workflows are complementary.
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