Interviews to quotable text, with timestamps you can cite.
Source recordings, press conferences, beat reporting. Accurate transcripts in minutes, every line tagged with a timecode for fact-checking and citation.
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Designed for the realities of beat reporting
Stop losing an hour per interview to playback and rewind.
Press conferences eat the night
A 90-minute briefing means 4 hours of manual transcription before deadline.
Now: Upload, get accurate transcript in minutes. Search for quotes by keyword.
Citations need timecodes
Editor asks: "Where exactly did they say that?" - and you scrub through 60 minutes of audio.
Now: Every paragraph carries the exact second. Click, verify, cite.
Sources expect confidentiality
Sending audio to a third-party service feels like a leak waiting to happen.
Now: Audio goes to AI providers only to make the transcript and is deleted once it is ready, unless you turn on Keep audio. Transcripts you control, deletable any time.
What you get on every interview
Verbatim transcript, AI summary for editor briefings, exportable to TXT, SRT or VTT.
Reason: Three of five neighbourhoods reinspected after legal flagged methodology issues.
Origin of methodology change: Council audit (March), independent consultant brought in.
Follow-up angle: Identify which two neighbourhoods were NOT reinspected, and why.
How do journalists transcribe interviews?
Three ways newsrooms handle it - and what each costs in deadline time.
Manual playback
Play, pause, type, rewind. A one-hour interview takes 3–4 hours at the keyboard - fine once, brutal on a beat.
Best for: short clips where you only need one quote.
Human transcription services
Accurate, but typically $1–2 per audio minute and a turnaround measured in days - hard to square with a deadline.
Best for: legal-sensitive material that must be certified.
AI transcription
Upload the recording, get a timestamped, speaker-labelled draft in minutes for about a dollar per audio hour.
Best for: everyday interviews and pressers - verify quotes against timecodes before publishing.
Pay only for what you use
Top up once. Credits never expire. No subscription. One wallet for transcription, scans and captions.
New accounts get 15 free minutes to try - credits work for scans and captions too.
Frequently asked questions
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How do journalists transcribe interviews?
Most use one of three methods: manual playback and typing (3–4 hours per interview hour), human transcription services (accurate but days of turnaround), or AI transcription like Speecho - upload the recording, get a timestamped draft in minutes, then verify quotes against the audio.
Is AI transcription accurate enough to quote a source?
Treat the transcript as a verbatim draft: accuracy is high on clear audio, and every paragraph carries a timecode so you can jump back and verify the exact wording before it goes to print.
What about confidential sources?
Recordings go to the AI provider only to make the transcript and are deleted once it is ready, unless you turn on Keep audio. Transcripts stay in your account, can be deleted at any time, and are automatically purged after 90 days.
Can I transcribe phone calls and Zoom interviews?
Yes. Upload audio or video in any common format - MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 and more. For video, the audio track is extracted in your browser first, so uploads stay small.
Can I combine several recordings into one transcript?
Yes. A lecture recorded in parts, or an interview spread over several sessions: transcribe each file, select them in your history and press Merge. The parts come together in the order you set, with timestamps running on and speakers numbered across them. It is free, and the originals stay.
How much does it cost for a freelancer?
Pay-as-you-go: $0.83–$1.25 per hour of audio depending on the top-up, no subscription, and credits never expire - a $5 top-up covers roughly four hours of interviews.
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$0.83–$1.25 per hour of audio. Pay only for what you upload. Credits never expire.
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