Over TranscribeCat.

Wat het doet

Upload an audio or video file. Pay $2 per hour. Get an editable transcript with speaker labels in minutes. Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT, SRT, or VTT, or push it straight to a Google Doc.

100+ languages are auto-detected at the same price. The minimum charge is $2 per file — a 15-minute file and a 55-minute file both cost $2.

Hoe het werkt

Every file runs through OpenAI's latest speech model — the same family behind near-human accuracy on clean audio. Speaker labels are produced by automatic diarization on top of that transcript.

The service is built with Next.js, deployed on Vercel, payments by Stripe. Files are processed in isolated cloud workers. Audio is retained 90 days from your last sign-in by default; you can change that per upload or in your profile.

Why pay per hour, not per month

Most transcription services charge $10-25/month, or $20+ per seat per month for teams. That math works if you (or every member of your team) transcribes every day. Most people do not. Students need transcripts during exam season. Podcasters need them after recording. Researchers need them during fieldwork. The rest of the time, a subscription — or a roomful of unused seats — is money wasted.

At $2 per hour, a full semester of lecture transcription costs less than a single month of most subscriptions. See pricing for detailed cost comparisons, or vergelijken for the side-by-side against other services.

Wie maakt het

TranscribeCat is gebouwd door Klarweb, a small software studio in Oslo, Norway. The main developer is Axel Jørgensen.

The idea came from helping a friend transcribe a few hours of audio. Every tool we tried locked the basic feature behind a monthly subscription or charged for credit packs that expired. For someone who needs transcription a handful of times a year, that did not make sense. So we built the version we wanted to use.

Om Axel direct te bereiken:

• LinkedIn: axel-joergensen
• GitHub: @Axelj00

Privacy

You choose how long audio is kept — from instant deletion to one year, with 90 days as the default. We do not use recordings to train AI models and we do not sell your data. Only the text transcript is kept in your account by default, and you can delete it at any time.

Analyse is Plausible, which is cookieless and does not track individual users. See the privacybeleid voor alle details.

Terugbetalingen

If a transcription fails, you are refunded automatically to your original payment method. No support ticket needed.

Contact

Bereik ons via de contactpagina or the in-app support inbox after signing in.

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