Transcription Services for Students

State of the art A.I. working side by side with the best professionals to provide students with top-notch transcripts.

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Rated 4.8/5 based on 850+ reviews

Supported Languages

Below is the list of popular languages we support for transcription and subtitles.

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How to transcribe academic materials?

  1. 1. Upload your recording.

    With our uploader, you can import your file from anywhere, whether it's on your laptop, Google Drive, Youtube, or Dropbox. The first 10 minutes are free and there's no file limit.

  2. 2. Select the language of your recording.

    We support more than 120 languages, dialects, and accents.

  3. 3. Choose "Machine generated" or "Human made".

    Our automatic transcription software is lightning fast and 85% accurate. With our human service, your transcript will be transcribed and proofread by an expert and native speaker and delivered with 99% accuracy.

  4. 4. Receive your transcript.

    Our automatic transcription software will convert your file to text in just a few minutes (depending on the length of your file). If you select our human service, your transcript will be ready within 24 hours.

  5. 5. Click on "Export" and choose your preferred file format.

    You can export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, HTML, and many more. It's that easy to have your academic materials transcribed and get your work done quicker!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • How long does it take to transcribe a file?

    On average, manually transcribing audio to text takes about four hours for every hour of audio.

  • How long of a file can I have transcribed?

    Happy Scribe will transcribe files of any length. There is no file size limit, meaning you don't have to trim your interviews and submit multiple files. We also accept 45+ file formats including AIFF, M4A, MP3, MP4, WAV, and WMA, making podcast audio transcription quick and easy.

  • How many speakers am I limited to on my audio file?

    Be it one person or one hundred people, we will transcribe everything on your audio file. Additionally, our speech recognition can detect when the speaker has changed.

Customer Reviews
Rated Excellent 4.8/5 based on 850+ reviews
  • Happy Scribe saves time and money
    Love having the ability to have all my videos and audio files transcribed. The software is intuitive and easy to use. While there are minor corrections to be made, it saves sooooo much time.
    Abby - Trustpilot
  • Fun transcription!
    While there are competitors out there, I prefer Happy Scribe's interface--it makes transcription actually fun!
    Richard S. - Trustpilot
  • User Friendly & Reliable
    HS is easy to use and super user friendly. Love it!
    Sergio Duarte - Trustpilot
  • Great service with an intuitive design…
    Great service with an intuitive design packed with translation and exporting features I particularly Like the top-up based pricing system meaning you only pay for what you need.
    ricky - Trustpilot
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