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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 Dominique

Awesome platform, very simple to work with. I love the automatic speech-to-text component (for the original transcription) - it was pretty accurate most of the time and it saves so much time!

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by Stuart Kehoe

Hugely sped up my qualitative research process.

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by nathy esquivel

I like all the possibilities you offer as editing while listening, having good results of transcriptions, having the checking and speaker boxes are also great.

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by Michelle

A great time saver HappyScribe works incredibly fast. My file is transcribed in 10 minutes. The only thing is when I try to correct some things, it takes a long time for the program to show the changes. But overall a great time saver!

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by Carlos Scott

This is the best transcription tool I've ever used!

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by John Van Hulst

Does exactly what it claims it will do. Easy to use and a huge time saver.

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by Michael

Transcribing depends heavily on the quality of the recording. HappyScribe does a good job. What's really interesting is the subsequent editing tool.

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by Andreas Balas

Easy to use, accurate transcriptions, effective

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by Anthony Hadeed

Using HappyScribe is easy and seamless. The accuracy of its transcription engine is quite high, and from the time of submission of an MP3 file to the time of getting back a transcribed Word document is under 10 minutes, which is quick.

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