Transcriptionist 4+

Fast, private, speech to text

Wooji Juice Ltd

    • 5.0 • 4 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Transcriptionist quickly and privately converts speech from audio recordings — and video soundtracks — into text. Writing up notes for a meeting? Creating transcripts or subtitles for a podcast? Looking for just the right clip to cut out of a long recording? Or quotes for a news article? Need to remember what happened on game night? Or just want to remind yourself of what was said, without listening to the entire recording? Transcriptionist can help — in nearly 100 languages.

Import the audio into the app, click the transcribe button, and it will start to fill in the text that was spoken. Each piece is shown with a timestamp, and you can jump straight to the matching point in the recording to listen back to the original audio — at up to 2x speed.

If each speaker was recorded with their own microphone, Transcriptionist will track who said what, when — and you can solo individual voices to pick out what someone said, even if another person talked over them.

Copy and paste quotes into an article you're writing, or export the entire transcript in a range of formats, including PDF, HTML (web page), Markdown (blog post), SRT and VTT (subtitles), as well as formats suitable for importing into other apps — you can even create your own custom text-based formats with the built-in easy-to-use visual editor.

If you edit podcasts with our popular Ferrite Recording Studio, you can send your finished Ferrite projects direct to Transcriptionist — along with chapter markers — and each track will be kept separate so you can identify who's speaking.

You can also select paragraphs and export their audio in a choice of formats, suitable for editing in Ferrite or other apps — perfect for when you find the quote or highlight you needed.

Transcription takes place on your device, not on our servers, so no audio or text is sent to us, and subscribers can make as many transcripts as they like — we don't charge per-minute or per-transcript.

Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.wooji-juice.com/privacy

What’s New

Version 1.4

• Can select multiple paragraphs and combine them together.
• Saved searches, including the ability to save search-and-replace settings, organise them into groups, and then apply all the saved searches from a group at once.
• Custom Formats and Saved Searches can now be synced through iCloud.
• Per-window “Always On Top” option.
• Transcription engine improvements
• Various other fixes

Note: The Saved Searches feature and iCloud sync of Custom Formats or Saved Searches require macOS 14 or later.

Ratings and Reviews

5.0 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

BlueMountainClimber ,

Very nice transcription but minor improvement better

Accuracy of transcription is acceptable though sometimes words are missing. It saves a lot of work to clearly understand the speaker.

One improvement I am looking forward to is to collate the transcripted text in a clip with Ferrite so that some words may be positioned in the waveform to facilitate editing the corresponding clip. I mean it would be better to integrate the Transcriptionist
Into Ferrite, or vice versa.

It is a really good audio editor app!

newpolluter ,

Fails more than it works

First of all, this is a GUI for the OpenAI Whisper project. But as implemented on iOS in my first several tests, it has failed way more often than it has worked. Does your phone go to sleep because transcription is so slow? It fails with no notification. Is your audio file 32 bit? Again, it seems to fail without notification. I’m guessing here, since, again, there are no prompts or pop-ups to tell you what’s happening. The circular completion pie tells you something, but not if you turn away from your phone. Can you multi-task out of the app while transcription runs? I’m not sure, but I don’t think so.

Also, it uses the file name to name the speaker, not the transcription file. So all of your transcriptions are by default called “Untitled,” even when you import audio. And your speaker is called “Episode 6” or whatever.

Seems like it would be much improved with two settings: force phone to not sleep during transcription, and “name transcription file with audio file name.”

Developer Response ,

Hello, and thanks for your feedback! We recommend keeping Transcriptionist the frontmost app while performing a transcription on iPhone, as transcribing speech into text requires a lot of memory and processing resources, and if you switch to another app, it will have to give up those resources to let the new app use them. We’re considering adding an option to keep the screen awake during transcription so you can keep an eye on the progress. If you’re encountering a technical problem beyond that (for example, an incompatible audio file), please get in touch with Customer Support from the Tools/Settings (“gear button”) menu inside the app so we can investigate that for you. Thanks!

Paulh52 ,

A neat app, but it needs work.

I transcribed two different podcasts with this app that were a little bit over an hour long. Large chunks of the podcast were omitted in the transcription. It’s a need app, but it needs to be able to work better with transcribing and not leave out pieces of the text. on one podcast I was working with, although it got the end of the podcast, it left out 20 minutes right in the middle of the podcast.

App Privacy

The developer, Wooji Juice Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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