Transcription

Turning speech into text.

Getting a transcript you can trust — standard against premium accuracy, labelling who spoke, and the export formats that fit where it's going.

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The curriculum

Read them in this order

The first lesson gets you a transcript. The second is the one that decides whether it was any good — most complaints about a transcript are answered there, not in the editor.

01Your first transcriptAudio in, words out. Upload a file or paste a link, run it, and read the result back — one success before you touch a single setting.start · 4 min read
02Accuracy, speakers and timestampsThe three settings that decide whether a transcript is usable: when premium accuracy is worth paying for, how to get speaker labels you can trust, and what word timestamps unlock.core · 7 min read
03Editing and exporting a transcriptFix the transcript before you export it, then pick the right file: subtitles for video, a document for people, JSON for anything a machine has to read.core · 6 min read

Where the audio comes from

The four tabs

Every lesson assumes you know which tab you started in. One of them is not doing the work yet, and it is listed here for exactly that reason.

Upload: An audio or video file from your machine. The most reliable route, and the only one that does not depend on somebody else's site staying up.
Link: A YouTube URL. This tab takes YouTube links only — for audio hosted anywhere else, download it first and use Upload.
Live Mic: Transcribes as you speak, from your microphone. Good for a note or a short dictation; a recording you upload afterwards will read better than a live pass over the same words.
Live CaptionsComing soon: Captioning a meeting or another tab's audio. The tab exists but the feature does not yet — it currently points you at Live Mic.

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