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Built for researchers

Transcribe a semester of qualitative interviews in an afternoon. Code, theme, and pattern-analyze across the corpus with AI features built for research workflows.

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TL;DR

Upload a single interview or a folder of 50. Get verbatim transcripts with timestamps. Run thematic analysis ('Extract Patterns') across the corpus, or pull research-grade quotes per interview. Deletes audio after transcription. Per-language model handles non-English research subjects.

100

files per bulk job

50+

languages supported

WER on clean academic audio

audio retention

What you'll do with it

Phase IV / qualitative interviews

Verbatim text for analysis. Run 'Extract Insights' across all transcripts to find emergent themes.

UX research interviews

Drop user-interview recordings, get clean transcripts. Pattern analysis surfaces what every user struggles with.

Focus groups

Speaker ID labels participants. Pull each participant's quotes separately for analysis.

Ethnographic field recordings

Multilingual support handles field recordings in 50+ languages. Translate to English for analysis if needed.

Conference / talk recordings

Transcribe and summarize academic talks for the literature review. Faster than re-watching.

Bulk archival processing

100-file bulk jobs handle a year of fieldwork in a single run. Export to CSV for NVivo / MAXQDA / Atlas.ti.

Workflow

1
Get IRB approval that includes the use of an AI transcription service (most do).
2
Upload interview audio (we delete it after transcription).
3
Verify the transcript on a sample, fix any field-specific terms.
4
Run 'Extract Patterns' across the full corpus.
5
Export TXT or DOCX for import into your QDAS tool.
6
Cite verbatim with timestamps that match the source recording.

Where to start

Start with the researchers flow

Or jump straight to:

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