Best transcription tools to easily convert audio to text

Do you have audio recordings that you need to transcribe into text? Whether it’s for a podcast, an interview, or a personal project, you might be wondering what is the best and safest way to do it. That’s exactly what Diane from Prattville, Alabama is asking,

What is the best and safest app or software for transcribing audio recordings?

– Diane, Prattville, AL

There are lots of great apps and websites out there that you can use if you want to quickly transcribe your audio recordings. Here are some of my top picks.

Otter.ai: Transcribe Voice Notes

The Otter app will transcribe all your meetings, interviews, lectures, and everyday voice conversations in real-time, so you can focus on the discussion. You can get automated notes for things whether in person or over a video chat, and it can take meeting notes automatically and share them with teammates to keep everyone in sync. The app can also give live captioning to the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, ESL learners, and anyone with accessibility needs.

OtterAI

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Scribie

Scribie is only a web-based service and does not have an app available, however, the services it offers are still excellent. Its transcriptions are all verified by humans, so you’ll never have to worry about AI technology getting your transcriptions wrong. All transcribers are under an NDA, so everything is completely confidential. Scribie has a 4-step transcription process that is designed to achieve 100% accuracy, and it also provides SRT/VTT files, strict verbatim transcripts, audio time coding, BITC, start/end time, and more.

Scribie

Youtube Summary with ChatGPT

You can also try this Google Chrome extension for transcribing YouTube videos called Youtube & Article Summary powered by ChatGPT. The extension is free and it summarizes YouTube videos and web articles. It also lets you quickly view and access the summary of a video by clicking the summary buttons on the video thumbnail while browsing videos on YouTube. At the time of publishing, this extension had over 400 reviews and a 4-star rating.

YouTube Summary

Kurt’s key takeaways

Transcribing can be made so much easier with these helpful apps, websites, and extensions. Take a look at the features and reviews for each and see which one of our suggestions fits you best.

Have you tried one of these transcribing assistants yet? Let us know by commenting below.

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