SaluteSpeech

SaluteSpeech Bot is Sber's own transcription service delivered as a Telegram bot, built on the company's SaluteSpeech recognition engine — the same technology Sber sells to businesses for call-center and voice-interface transcription. That corporate backing shows in the numbers: with over 540 thousand monthly users, it is by far the most-used voice-to-text bot in this catalog, well ahead of independent alternatives. The workflow is simple: send a voice message and get text back, with a help menu covering common questions about the service. Because it's tuned by a company that builds Russian-language speech technology professionally, accuracy on Russian speech — including accents, background noise and informal phrasing — tends to be a cut above general-purpose or hobbyist transcription bots. Being an official, large-scale service also means it is unlikely to disappear the way independent side-project bots sometimes do. The trade-off of scale is that support is menu-driven rather than personal, and like most transcription bots, your audio is processed by Sber's own servers rather than staying local, which is worth keeping in mind for sensitive recordings.