Interview Transcription
Interview Transcription turns recorded interviews into searchable, timestamped text with speaker labels, so a quote is confirmed against the audio before use.
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What is Interview Transcription?
Interview Transcription converts a recorded conversation into timestamped, speaker-labeled text that a researcher, journalist, or hiring panel can work from. Recordings from a phone, a lapel microphone, or a video call are uploaded as common audio or video formats, and the draft keeps every turn attributable while a reviewer cleans up names and specialist terms.
Why choose Interview Transcription?
Interview Transcription keeps the shape of the conversation: question, answer, interruption, and the long pause before a careful reply. A thirty-minute call and a two-hour oral history follow the same upload and review path, so a study with twelve participants does not need twelve workflows.
Rewinding the Same Minute to Catch One Quote?
Transcribing an interview by hand costs several hours per hour of audio, and stopping to type loses the thread of the next answer. Playing a section back to find a single quote is slower still, because the useful moment is rarely marked. Interview Transcription produces a searchable draft with timestamps, so a participant's exact words are found by search and checked against the recording.
What makes Interview Transcription different?
Interview Transcription keeps every participant's turn intact, so a quote, a hesitation, and the question that prompted it stay together in the searchable transcript.
Speaker labels keep a panel interview readable
Search jumps straight to a quote by keyword
Timestamps align each line with the recording
How to use Interview Transcription in 3 steps
- 1
Upload the interview recording
Add a phone recording, a lapel microphone file, or the audio from a video call in MP3, M4A, WAV, or MP4.
- 2
Turn on speaker separation
Labels keep the interviewer and the participant apart, which matters most when answers run long.
- 3
Verify the quotes and export
Check names and phrasing against the timestamps, then copy the text or download it for the analysis file.
Start with one recorded interview and test how fast a quote surfaces. Phone recordings, lapel audio, and call video all upload from the same page, with no software to install on any machine.
Transcribe an interviewWhat users say about Interview Transcription
“Lecture recordings finally became searchable notes instead of hours of audio.”
“I stopped taking notes in calls and started reviewing transcripts instead.”
“The timestamped transcript cut my editing pass roughly in half.”
“Finding a quote in a 90-minute interview now takes seconds.”
“Speaker labels make multi-person interviews far easier to code.”
Frequently asked questions about Interview Transcription
Can a two-person interview be separated by speaker?
Yes. With speaker separation on, the interviewer and the participant receive different labels, so an answer is never confused with the question that produced it. Labels can be renamed during review, which keeps the export readable for a colleague who did not sit in on the call.
Does it handle a panel or a focus group?
It transcribes every voice in the room, and speaker separation assigns a turn to each one it can distinguish. Overlapping speech in a lively group is the hard case, and the timestamps allow a short stretch to be replayed and split by hand where attribution matters.
How are filler words and false starts treated?
They stay in the text, because a verbatim record is often the point of an interview transcript. A cleaned version is produced by editing the draft rather than by choosing a different mode, so both the faithful and the readable form can exist from one recording.
Which recording setups are supported?
A phone on the table, a lapel microphone, a handheld recorder, and a video call all produce files that upload directly as MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, or MP4. A separate microphone close to the speaker always beats a laptop's built-in microphone for accuracy.
Can a long oral history be transcribed?
A 100MB ceiling covers a long session recorded in one take, and an oral history spread over several sittings is usually split anyway. Every part is transcribed with its own clock, so a quote can still be traced to the sitting it came from rather than guessed from the middle.
How is a quote checked against the audio?
Each line carries a timestamp, so the reviewer jumps to that moment and hears the original delivery. That check matters for tone as much as wording, since an ironic aside and a sincere statement read the same once the audio is gone and only the text remains.
Is permission needed before an interview is uploaded?
That depends on the consent agreement and the rules of the study or publication, not on the tool. The person who owns the recording decides where it may be processed, and it is worth confirming that consent covers a third-party transcription service.
What can be exported for analysis?
Plain text for coding and quoting, plus SRT and VTT when the interview is also a video. There is no direct export into qualitative analysis software, so the text is copied into the tool the research team already uses for coding, memos, and themes. The export keeps the speaker labels as they were typed.
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