Split by who is talking
The transcript arrives as lines rather than one wall of text: you can see who said what and at which minute.
Transcription
Transcription for audio and video online
Upload a recording or paste a link — the service transcribes it with speakers and timestamps, and you can edit the text and export it to DOCX, TXT, SRT or VTT.
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Words stay tied to the audio
Clicking a line rewinds the recording to that moment, so a disputed phrase can be replayed without hunting for it.
Your own vocabulary
Names, product titles and professional jargon go into a dictionary, and recognition stops mangling them.
More than a transcript
Summaries, action items and answers about the recording are built on top, so reading the whole thing is often unnecessary.
Built for people who work from recordings
Teams
Turn meeting recordings into notes and follow-up text.
Researchers
Review interviews with speakers, timestamps, and search.
Creators
Make transcript text for captions, posts, and show notes.
Students
Convert lectures and webinars into study material.
In depth
Why transcribing by hand eats a day
Anyone who has transcribed a recording knows the ratio: one hour of audio costs three to four hours of work. The reason is not typing speed but the rhythm the job forces on you — hear a phrase, pause, type it, rewind five seconds because the end of the sentence has already slipped away, type again. Live conversation does not arrive as finished sentences either: people interrupt, restart a thought, talk at the same time. Every second the transcriber decides whose line this is and where one thought ends. An hour-long interview becomes a lost evening, and a dozen recordings become the task everyone postpones for months.
What automatic transcription changes
The model takes over the mechanical half — typing and rewinding. The recording comes back already structured: lines separated, each carrying a timestamp and a speaker label, the text searchable with an ordinary page search. Human work does not disappear, it changes shape: proofreading instead of typing. Walk the spots where audio was poor, correct names and terms, rename "Speaker 1" to an actual person. That is usually ten to fifteen minutes per hour of recording instead of several hours — and it can be done in fragments rather than in one sitting.
Where a transcript stops being just text
The value is not the text itself but what it makes possible. You search it: who promised to send the quote, when the objection came up, what the client actually said about deadlines. You quote from it precisely instead of from memory. You forward it to someone who missed the meeting — not the whole thing, just the fragment with its timecode. On top of it a summary and a list of owners take shape, and several recordings merge into one report: what was decided this quarter, what kept coming back. An audio track allows none of that; it is either listened to in full or useless.
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Transcription questions
What does transcription actually mean?
It is spoken language written down. It used to be done by hand: a person listened, paused, typed what they heard, and spent three to four hours on a single hour of audio. Now a model handles the recognition and the human is left with proofreading — fixing terms, names and unclear passages.
How is a transcript different from subtitles?
The content is the same spoken text, but the packaging differs. A transcript is a document for reading and quoting: lines, speakers, paragraphs. Subtitles are that same text cut into short phrases with exact display times so they can sit over the video. Here you get the first and can export the second as SRT or VTT.
What does online transcription cost?
Automatic transcription here has no minute limits, so you do not pay per hour of recording. For comparison, manual transcription on freelance marketplaces runs from a few dollars per audio minute and takes about a day per hour of material.
Which recordings can be transcribed?
Audio and video in the usual formats: MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, AAC, FLAC, MP4, WEBM. Files go up to 4 GB, which covers a multi-hour conference. Instead of a file you can pass a link and the service fetches it.
How accurate is the result?
The source matters more than the length. A lapel mic or a headset comes out close to verbatim; a phone line, a echoey meeting room or several people talking over each other produce more errors. That is why the transcript opens in an editor next to the audio — proofreading the doubtful spots beats retyping everything.
Do I have to transcribe the whole recording?
No. When you need the gist rather than the exact wording, a summary and a task list are built on top and read in a minute instead of an hour. The full transcript stays available for searching and quoting precise phrasing.
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