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Built for journalists
Transcribe a 2-hour interview in 4 minutes. Pull direct quotes with a click. Search across 50+ recorded conversations for the one fact that closes the story.
Try it freeTL;DR
Record the interview however you record interviews — phone call, in-person, Zoom. Drop the file in. Transcript appears in minutes, with timestamps you can cite. The 'Notable Quotes' AI feature surfaces the strongest pull quotes; the 'Extract Insights' feature surfaces patterns across multiple interviews.
4
min for 2-hr interview
95%+
accuracy on clean audio
100
files per bulk job
50+
interview languages
What you'll do with it
One-on-one interviews
Record on your phone, drop the .m4a in here, get a clean transcript with timestamps. Cite as '[12:34] Smith said: ...'
Group / panel discussions
Speaker ID labels each speaker. Find who said what without listening twice.
Quote extraction
'Notable Quotes' AI feature surfaces the most quotable moments — the headline-worthy lines.
Pattern analysis
Doing a piece based on 12 interviews? Run 'Extract Patterns' on each transcript, find the recurring themes.
Document recordings
Open-records audio (council meetings, hearings, press conferences) — transcribe and search instantly.
Foreign-language sources
Source spoke Spanish? Mandarin? Arabic? Transcribe in that language, run translation, quote both versions.
Workflow
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Record the interview (single-party consent in most U.S. states; check your locale).
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Upload the file. The audio is deleted from our servers after transcription.
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Run Speaker ID for multi-person recordings.
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Use Notable Quotes to find headline material.
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Search across all your interviews for the connecting fact.
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Cite with timestamps the editor will trust.
Where to start
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