Comparison
txscribe vs Happy Scribe, for interviews and research
Of the tools we compare ourselves with on this site, Happy Scribe is the closest: a web app for recordings you upload, built around an editor. It also sells human transcription in many languages, and it's built for teams and subtitle work — if that is what you need, it does things we don't.
If you're one person transcribing interviews or research recordings and correcting them yourself, the table shows where the two differ — most of all in how many minutes you get for the money.
Happy Scribe's details checked on its own pages on ; each links to its source. Plans and prices change — if something here is out of date, tell us at support@txscribe.ai.
Price
txscribe
Pro: $24.99 a month, billed monthly. One plan, no seats.
Happy Scribe
AI plans: Basic $17 a month, or $8.50 a month billed annually; Pro $29 a month, or $19 a month billed annually, with 3 seats; Business $89 a month, or $59 a month billed annually, with 5 seats. Prices shown in USD. Source
Time included
txscribe
Pro: 30 hours a month. Without an account: one recording, up to 10 minutes.
Human transcription
txscribe
No human transcription. The machine's draft is yours to correct, in an editor built for it.
Languages
txscribe
82 languages (110 regional variants in the picker). Speaker labels offered in all of them — in 96, only on recordings of up to 2 hours, and not where that pass fails.
Speaker names
txscribe
Speakers come back numbered. Rename one once and every line follows; names you have used before are offered again.
Exports
txscribe
TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, Final Cut Pro captions, Premiere Pro markers, transcripts for NVivo, MAXQDA and ATLAS.ti, and JSON, on every plan, including Free. Up to 100 transcripts at once as one ZIP, and the audio or video file you uploaded can be downloaded again.
Translation
txscribe
A translated copy of the whole transcript, on every plan.
Custom word list
txscribe
Up to 1,000 names and terms, on every plan.
Checking against the audio
txscribe
Words come back with timestamps: click any line to jump to that moment in the recording. A line you correct keeps its paragraph's timing rather than per-word timing. Answers to questions about a transcript link to the moments they came from.
Happy Scribe
An editor that plays the media in step with the text, at up to 5x speed, with find-and-replace and version history. Source
Training on your recordings
txscribe
We do not use your recordings or transcripts to train models.
Where Happy Scribe is the better choice
- People who transcribe, in many languages. People transcribe for you, separately from the plans: from $2.00 a minute for English, priced per language, in more than 60 languages. Happy Scribe says its human service "has an accuracy of 99%". Sources 1, 2 We don't offer human transcription at all.
- Subtitle and editing formats. Pro and Business export "All formats (15+)", including VTT, PDF and formats for video editors. What Free and Basic can export differs between Happy Scribe's own pages — its pricing page lists DOCX for Free in one place and leaves it out of its plan table. Sources 1, 2 We export eight: TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, Final Cut Pro captions, Premiere Pro markers, and JSON.
- Questions across a whole project. AI Chat can be pointed at a whole folder to ask across every file in it, with a quick action that extracts key quotes with timestamps. Source txscribe answers questions across your whole library or one folder too, but it reads at most four recordings per question: the ones that use the question's own words.
- Teams. Pro includes 3 seats and Business 5, with roles and permissions on Business. Source txscribe has shared workspaces on every plan — invite people as admins, editors or viewers, and comment on transcripts together — but no team billing: there are no seats or pooled minutes, each member transcribes on their own plan, and there is no single sign-on.
- A security report to hand over. Its Trust Center lists a SOC 2 Type II report. Source We have no SOC 2 report.
What txscribe doesn't do well
- Speaker labels stop at 2 hours in 96 of our 110 language variants: there a separate pass labels the speakers, and a longer recording — or one whose pass fails — comes back without labels and says so, with no speakers to rename.
- A recording that switches language partway may come back translated rather than transcribed — or not at all — and nothing marks it as missing. Name the main language instead of leaving it on automatic.
- Summaries do not point back to the moment each line came from. Answers to questions do.
Try it on one of your recordings.
Up to 10 minutes, no account and no card. A table can tell you the limits; only your own audio tells you whether the transcript holds.
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