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How does it work?

How to transcribe academic materials?

  1. Step 1

    1. Upload your recording.

    With our uploader, you can import your file from anywhere, whether it's on your laptop, Google Drive, Youtube, or Dropbox. The first 10 minutes are free and there's no file limit.

  2. Step 2

    2. Select the language of your recording.

    We support more than 120 languages, dialects, and accents.

  3. Step 3

    3. Choose "Machine generated" or "Human made".

    Our automatic transcription software is lightning fast and 85% accurate. With our human service, your transcript will be transcribed and proofread by an expert and native speaker and delivered with 99% accuracy.

  4. Step 4

    4. Receive your transcript.

    Our automatic transcription software will convert your file to text in just a few minutes (depending on the length of your file). If you select our human service, your transcript will be ready within 24 hours.

  5. Step 5

    5. Click on "Export" and choose your preferred file format.

    You can export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, HTML, and many more. It's that easy to have your academic materials transcribed and get your work done quicker!

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to transcribe a file?

On average, manually transcribing audio to text takes about four hours for every hour of audio. With HappyScribe, you'll get it done in minutes!

How long of a file can I have transcribed?

HappyScribe will transcribe files of any length. There is no file size limit, meaning you don't have to trim your interviews and submit multiple files. We also accept 45+ file formats including AIFF, M4A, MP3, MP4, WAV, and WMA, making podcast audio transcription quick and easy.

How many speakers am I limited to on my audio file?

Be it one person or one hundred people, we will transcribe everything on your audio file. Additionally, our speech recognition can detect when the speaker has changed.

Customer Reviews

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by Willem Ruys

Great product. Not always super accurate but still faster than transcribing manually.

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by Molly Suber Thorpe

Very user-friendly, affordable, and accurate! Only very minimal proofreading was required.

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by Leah Byrnes

This was the easiest, cleanest, and most accurate transcription site I've used and I have tried a lot

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by Melissa Hughes

HappyScribe has been a life-saver for me. Easy to use, accurate and so fast!

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by Katrina Lu

HappyScribe is really easy to use. While you still need to double-check just in case, it gets most of it correct.

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by yessica klein

HappyScribe saves me so much time. As a journalist, my dream was to have an intern to transcribe my interviews to me, but HappyScribe answered my prayers instead! And for a reasonable price too. Super happy with it.

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by samantha koland

HappyScribe is an awesome platform I found to use in my Social Work class. It is super handy, easy to use, and has great UX design.

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by Suzan van Ierland

Saved me loads of time doing transcribing interviews for my thesis. Handled different accents of Dutch quite well.

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by Markus Bühler

It is a great tool. Very intelligent, perfect workflow. Makes happy to work with.

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