Transcribe job interviews

In an account — free or Pro, with the same features — the transcript comes with:

Who spoke

In American English, British English and Indian English, the transcript separates the voices into Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on; you rename each label once, and the name holds for the whole transcript. In Australian English and Philippine English, it separates them too, on recordings of up to 2 hours. If the separation fails, the transcript comes without speaker labels, and says so.

A time on every word

Click any line to hear that passage; the transcript follows the recording while it plays.

A summary that quotes exactly

An interview is summarised by its themes, with notable quotes in the candidate's own words — quoted exactly, grammar untidied — and the factual claims worth checking, which in hiring is the list to take to the references.

Questions across the interview

Ask what the candidate said about a past project or a notice period; the answer points to the passages and the moment in the recording they are in.

Export

Word (DOCX), TXT, SRT and VTT, on every plan — Word or TXT for the hiring file.

Whether an interview may be recorded, what the candidate must be told and how long the recording may be kept are governed by employment and privacy rules where you hire, and by your own policy; all of that is yours to settle before you press record. Delete what your policy says to delete: in an account, recordings and transcripts are kept until you delete them.

The transcript is a record of words, not an assessment: nothing here scores a candidate, and a misheard answer reads as confidently as a right answer. Every automatic transcript has errors, and they cluster on proper names, numbers and technical terms. Before you quote a passage, click the line and listen: with a time on every word, that check takes seconds. Listen to any answer that weighs on a decision, and treat the summary as a pointer to the passage, not as the passage.

Without an account, the trial transcribes up to the first 10 minutes of a recording. On Pro, each file can be up to 8 hours, within the month's included hours; what each plan includes, the pricing page shows. See plans and prices.

On long recordings, speaker labels can wander from one section to the next — a consequence of how long audio is processed, not a setting.

Name the main language rather than leaving it on automatic. Automatic detection has to decide what language each stretch of speech is in, and where a recording switches language, what was said in the other one may come back translated instead of transcribed — or not come back at all. Either way nothing is marked as missing: the transcript will look complete.

Philippine English is marked “preview” in the language list: offered, but without a quality commitment yet, so check its transcript more closely before you use it.