Transcript with timestamps

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

A time on every word

Each passage shows the minute and second it begins; where your browser plays the file's format, click a word and the recording plays from it, with the player showing the time. The transcript follows the audio while it plays.

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.

Subtitles with cue times

SRT and VTT exports cut their cues from the word times.

Word with the time each block begins

In the Word export, each block of text starts with the time it begins. Where the transcript separates speakers, a block is a single speaker's continuous turn; where it does not, consecutive remarks by different people can come out as a single block with its start time only. Times and names can be left out of the export.

Export

Word (DOCX), TXT, SRT and VTT, on every plan.

To cite the minute and second of a statement, click its first word and note the time the player shows — before you edit that passage: a passage whose text has been corrected can lose the times on its words and keep only the time it begins. If the browser does not play the file, the passage's own start time remains.

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. A time proves where a passage is, not what it says: listen before you quote.

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.