A six-person panel discussion, and it kept every voice straight. I stopped double-checking after the third transcript.
English Transcription: English Audio and Video to Text
Most English on the internet is not spoken by native speakers, and the native speakers do not agree on vowels either. Upload a recording in any accent and get an English transcript with speakers labelled and every line timestamped.
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Every word, in English
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Maya
We rebuilt the studio in winter.
Tom
And since then every episode sounds warmer.
Maya
People hear it right away.
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What Makes English Hard to Transcribe
A Glaswegian, a Texan and an engineer from Bangalore can say the same sentence with almost no vowel in common. Speech models trained on a narrow set of voices stumble on exactly this, and non-native speakers add their own rhythm and stress. The transcript still has to land on the same standard words, whoever is speaking.
English is full of homophones: their, there and they’re; affect and effect; complement and compliment. Weak forms make it worse, because could have is said like could of and going to like gonna. The right spelling comes from the meaning of the sentence, which is why these are the first places a careful reader looks.
Product names, acronyms and industry terms rarely appear in everyday speech, so they are where transcripts slip: is it SaaS or sass, Kubernetes or a guess at it? Numbers raise a style question too: twenty-five or 25, 3 pm or three o’clock, 2.5 million or two and a half million. Settle the style before the text goes out.
What a Clean English Transcript Looks Like
Three lines from a remote meeting, and what each one shows.
- Speaker 1
Let’s move the launch to Q3 and loop in the APAC team on Thursday.
Acronyms such as Q3 and APAC are kept as written, not spelled out phonetically. Check them first in business recordings.
- Speaker 2
Their numbers are fine, but there’s a gap in the onboarding flow.
Their and there’s sound almost alike in fast speech. The meaning picks the spelling, and homophones are worth a quick scan.
- Speaker 3
So, um, we went from 1,200 users to about 4,500 in six weeks.
A non-native speaker with a filler and two spoken numbers. Keep fillers for research, cut them for publication, and keep one number style.
How to Transcribe English Audio
From an English recording to editable text in three steps.
Transcribe English Audio30 free minutes · No credit card
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV or any common format, or paste a YouTube or Vimeo link.
Auto-detection listens to several stretches of speech across the file. If speakers switch languages, select English yourself.
Read through names, acronyms and numbers, fix anything in the editor, then export SRT, VTT, ASS, TXT, DOCX, PDF, CSV, XLSX or JSON.
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Field interviews go in as MP3s and come out as clean DOCX with timestamps. My write-up time dropped by half.
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Yes. The model is trained on English from many countries and on non-native speech, and it writes standard English whatever the accent. Very strong accents, poor microphones and crosstalk are where errors cluster, so read those passages against the audio.
The transcript does not let you choose a variant, and spelling can follow the speaker or the model’s defaults. If you publish to a house style, run a spell-check in American or British English on the exported text, or fix words like colour and color in the editor.
Some are, and quick ones may be left out, so it is not a strict verbatim record of every hesitation. For subtitles and articles, remove the rest in the editor; for research, listen through the passages that matter.
Up to 99.8% on clear audio. Background noise, overlapping speakers and phone-quality recordings lower it, and the editor shows text and audio side by side, so the remaining fixes are quick.
Choose the main language of the recording. Short phrases in another language may be transcribed or translated into it, so for a meeting that is half in English and half in Spanish, split the file or transcribe it twice.
All common audio and video formats — MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, MKV and more — up to 8 GB per file, or a YouTube or Vimeo link. Export to SRT, VTT, ASS, TXT, DOCX, PDF, CSV, XLSX or JSON.
Yes. You get 30 free minutes once, with no credit card: short recordings are transcribed in full, long ones show the first 10 minutes.