Transcription App for Research
🎙️ Turn hours of interviews and focus groups into analysis-ready transcripts — without ever leaving your machine.
Whether you’re conducting in-depth interviews, running focus groups, or processing hours of ethnographic recordings, transcription is the bottleneck between raw data and meaningful analysis. Transcription App removes that bottleneck entirely — and keeps your participants’ data exactly where it belongs: on your computer.
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🔒 Everything runs locally on your device. No files are uploaded. No content is stored remotely. No data is shared with third parties. Ever.
🎙️ Unlimited Transcription in 99 Languages
Forget the 2-minute caps and upload limits of browser-based tools. Recorded a 3-hour focus group or a full day of fieldwork interviews? Transcribe it in full — start to finish, on your own machine. Working with multilingual participants or cross-cultural data? Transcription App supports 99 languages using OpenAI’s state-of-the-art Whisper models, including the newest Large V3 Turbo.
- 🗣️ Automatic speaker diarisation — powered by Pyannote, with over 80% precision, every voice is labelled so you always know who said what
- ⚡ Blazing fast — depending on your hardware, reach transcription speeds of up to ~x20 real-time
- 🔎 Verbatim search across all your recordings — find recurring themes, key statements, or specific phrases across your entire dataset in seconds
- 🏷️ Tag and annotate — mark passages with thematic codes, follow-up notes, or analytical memos directly inside the transcript
📂 Unlimited Projects — One Place for Every Study
Organise your research the way your methodology demands:
- 📁 Group interviews, focus groups, and observations into separate projects with names and descriptions
- 📝 Project-by-project research memos and note taking
- 🗂️ Keep different research phases, participant cohorts, and data collection waves cleanly separated
- 📦 Archive and share projects across devices — send a project file to a co-researcher and they can pick up right where you left off
🔒 Private by Design — Your Participants Deserve It
Research ethics and participant confidentiality are non-negotiable. Consent doesn’t extend to cloud servers you don’t control. Unlike typical transcription services that require uploading audio to remote servers with opaque storage practices, Transcription App takes a fundamentally different approach.
- 🛡️ No user accounts tied to your data — it’s an app, not a platform. We just need your email to check your subscription… And that’s it!
- 🧠 Speech recognition and speaker identification are computed entirely on your machine
- ✅ Fully compatible with IRB and ethics board requirements and institutional data security policies
- 🏠 Set custom storage locations — keep recordings on encrypted drives or secure institutional infrastructure.
This isn’t just a feature. For researchers working with vulnerable populations, sensitive disclosures, or confidential fieldwork data, local processing is a necessity.
🧑🔬 Built by a Researcher, for Researchers
Transcription App is created by Dr. Samuel Haddad-Bacry, a qualitative researcher who built the tool to simplify working with interview transcripts. Whether you’re a PhD student with stacks of recorded fieldwork or a senior researcher managing a multi-site study — this app adapts to the way you work.
No cloud. No platform. No data you can’t account for.
🎨 Make It Yours
🤖 Scan your own local Whisper models for specialised terminology, dialects, or domain-specific vocabulary
🖋️ Choose from 15+ fonts for comfortable reading during long transcript coding sessions
📐 A friendly, efficient interface designed to let you edit, correct, and refine transcripts seamlessly — ready to import into your qualitative analysis software
🔄 Import & Export — Fits Your Research Workflow
- 📥 Import existing transcripts in SRT, VTT, or DOC format
- 📤 Export transcripts as .doc, .txt, .srt, or .vtt — and back up entire projects as ZIP archives
- 🔗 Move data seamlessly into NVivo, ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, or any other qualitative analysis software