AI transcription tool statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 40 AI transcription tool sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google12Mvisits-54% vs a year ago
• Google searches18.1Ksearchesfor "ai transcription"
• Most visited site3.1MvisitsVEED, 27% of all
• Expected in November11Mvisits-9% vs last month

• 11,655,832 Google visits went to the 40 AI transcription tool sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 54% fewer than a year earlier.
• Shrinking: the AI transcription tool market is shrinking, but name searches are up 3.7% since October 2025.
• 18,100 searches a month for “ai transcription” worldwide, 24% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 27% of all visits go to VEED, the most-visited AI transcription tool; the five most-visited take 80%.
• 9.4% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, the United Kingdom and Canada.
• 10,560,893 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 9.1M and 12M.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, October 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Shrinking, but name searches are up 3.7% since October 2025.

Over two years, visits went from 14M in November 2024 to a high of 34M in December 2024, and stand at 12M in October 2026. Five sites take 80% of visits, so one ranking change at the top moves the whole line.

Visits, year on year

-54%

Visits, last six months

-49%

Name searches, US

+4%

Busiest month (2 years)

December 2024, 34M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are down and name searches are up, so they don’t agree yet.

Open the AI transcription tool market demand page

“ai transcription” is searched about 18,100 times a month worldwide, 24% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai transcription” until September 2024; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026. Americans make 24% of the searches but only 9.4% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, United Kingdom and Canada.

Searches a month, US

4,400

Google Trends now

15/100 -71%

Five-year peak

88/100 in May 2026

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is lower than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

Open the AI transcription tool search trends page

Fewer visits than a year ago, but more people searching by name, and the next six months look like a slide.

The fastest growers over the year, Maestra AI, Trint and Podsqueeze, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Riverside, lost most of their search visits (-100%).

Visits vs September 2026

-17%

Biggest gain this month

Audio Transcriber +116%

Biggest loss this month

VEED -27%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Maestra AI’s +66% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI transcription tool monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be 9% fewer than October 2026, and the next six months to look down.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward with the seasonal pattern, because that version missed least when tested on past months. November is usually a quieter month than average for searches.

Expected in November 2026

10,560,893 visits

Likely range

9.1M to 12M

Expected in May 2027

9.4M -19%

Past forecasts in range

3 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 3 times.

Open the AI transcription tool monthly forecast page

The most visited is VEED, with 3.1 million visits a month, 27% of all visits.

VEED and Kapwing together hold 50% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 35 sites share 20%.

Top five sites

80% of all visits

Visits from the US

9.4%

Largest markets outside the US

India, United Kingdom and Canada

Sites tracked

40

Miles explains

VEED alone has 27% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI transcription tool industry report page

Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

sites.csv has one row per site: its Google US position for “ai transcription”, Tranco rank, Chrome UX tier, visits from Google worldwide and in the US, name searches, Domain Rating and referring domains, with the month each figure covers. market.csv has the monthly totals across the tracked sites: visits worldwide and in the US, name searches and referring domains. Blanks mean the source had no figure, never zero.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Transcription Tool Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-transcription