Focus Group Transcription with Every Turn Timestamped
Upload the session, set how many people spoke (up to five voices are labelled) and get every turn as text with its time; in bigger groups, the moderator naming speakers keeps the transcript readable.
Room recordings, Zoom or Meet sessions · 120+ languages · files up to 8 GB
Moderator and participants, apart
What would make you try it again?
Fewer reminders, honestly.
And a way to pause it for a week.
I would pay for that.
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What a Focus Group Transcript Has to Do
Questions and follow-ups are easy to filter out when the moderator has a label of their own, so the analysis starts from what participants said.
Timestamps show where the group turned, and a click on the line plays it back, tone and laughter included.
CSV and XLSX export put one turn per row with start and end times, ready for colour-coding themes.
Speaker Labels in a Group: What to Expect
Groups are the hardest case for speaker recognition. These are the limits, stated plainly.
- Voices labelled
- Up to five; you choose the number (2–5) before transcribing
- Six or more participants
- Some people share a label; reassign lines by hand or keep the moderator’s name calls
- Overlapping talk
- Usually attributed to the louder voice; words spoken at once can be lost
- Renaming
- Rename a label once (P1, P2, Moderator) and every line updates
- Timestamps
- Start of every turn; in DOCX and PDF also the end
- Export for analysis
- DOCX, CSV or XLSX on paid plans; TXT on the free plan
Before You Record the Session
Most of a clean group transcript is decided in the room.
Microphone
Put it in the middle of the table
One omnidirectional recorder at the centre beats a laptop at the end of the table, where the far side ends up too quiet to transcribe.
Names
Have people say their name when they speak
A quick “Anna here” at the start of a turn makes reassigning lines easy when two voices end up under one label.
Size
Plan for the five-voice limit
For groups of six to ten, note the order of speakers during the session or record the moderator and participants on separate devices.
How to Transcribe a Focus Group
From recording to finished text in three steps.
Add the session recording in its original format, or paste a Google Drive or Dropbox link.
Turn on speaker recognition and choose how many voices to expect, up to five.
Rename labels to the moderator and participant codes, fix lines under the wrong voice, export CSV or DOCX.