Transcribe by Wreally : Full Review, Testing, and Presentation (2024)

What is Transcribe?

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Transcribe is a transcription software in SaaS, which allows its Speech-to-Text and Artificial Intelligence (STT-AI) conversion engine to perform transcriptions.

Transcribe supports the following 7 audio formats: mp3, wma, wma, wav, m4a, aac, amr, and mp4. It is also possible to upload a YouTube video directly from YouTube's servers to the application's database for transcription.

In addition, Transcribe offers multi-lingual support and can convert audio files made in the following languages: American and British English, Mandarin, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Japanese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Japanese, Japanese, Japanese, Korean, Japanese, Korean, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Japanese

Features

Here's a look at some of the built-in features that Transcribe contains:

1. Integrated text editor

Discover the convenience of Transcribe's built-in text editor, a powerful tool that significantly enhances the transcription experience.

• Synchronization with the Media Player: Enables the easy insertion of timestamp stamps, crucial for synchronizing subtitles and speeches.
• Word Processing Features: Includes document formatting, bold, italics, underlining, creating lists, and adding hyperlinks.
• Error Rate Reduction: Edit the document to minimize errors and achieve near perfect accuracy.

Transcribe's built-in editor provides a smooth and accurate transcription experience, although its dependence on the quality of the source audio may limit its effectiveness in some cases.

2. Transcription pedal

Transcribe's footswitch increases transcription efficiency by allowing hands-free control of the media player.

• Practical control: Use a foot pedal to easily navigate the audio or video while transcribing.
• Productivity improvement: Enables faster and more comfortable transcription, especially for long recordings.

Using the transcription pedal in Transcribe is an asset for professionals, making the process faster and less tedious.

3. Integrated dictionary

Transcribe's built-in dictionary, based on Google, offers valuable language support, especially when used with browsers like Chrome.

• Multilingual support: Use of the Google dictionary for better understanding and correction of texts in various languages.
• Optimized for Browsers: Best experience with Chrome on Windows and macOS, and Chromium for Linux or BSD.

While the built-in dictionary is an asset, Transcribe's dependence on specific browsers could limit its flexibility for some users.

4. Multilingual transcript

Transcribe stands out for its ability to manage transcription in a multitude of languages, making it useful in a global context.

• Wide Range of Languages: Supports various languages such as English, Mandarin, Arabic, French, and others.
• Linguistic precision: Use language-specific dictionaries for accurate transcription.

Transcribe's multi-lingual functionality is particularly beneficial for users working with international content, although accuracy may vary depending on linguistic complexity and audio quality.

5. Impact of Audio Factors on Transcription

Transcription quality in Transcribe is influenced by a variety of factors related to the source audio, underlining the importance of a good quality recording.

• Source Audio Quality: The clarity of the sound, the background noise, and the quality of the audio recording directly influence the accuracy of the transcription.
• Voice characteristics: The speaker's accent, nasality, volume, and speed of speech also affect the quality of transcription.

This dependence on audio factors means that while Transcribe is a powerful tool, it performs at its best with high-quality audio recordings.

Rates

Security

Depending on the nature of the transcription work, the sensitivity of the recording and the processed text may be a security issue for some.

An interesting aspect of Transcribe's security is that not all data flows to the cloud in this service during auto-transcription. And, as a result, account transcripts are only accessible from the computer where they were created.

This method was purposefully designed, although this is not also the case for automatic conversions, where audio data and processed text are kept in the cloud by necessity.

But even in this scenario, uploaded audio or video files are deleted after five hours after they have been processed, and the transcript created can be deleted by the user.

Final Verdict

From the outside, it may seem a bit outdated, but Wreally put the effort where it counts in Transcribe.

They claim 90% accuracy for automatic transcription. In our tests, it performed better than this level if the source recording was of reasonable quality.

Being able to directly dictate the most difficult or obscure parts of a recording allows long speeches to be processed relatively painlessly.

A large number of supported languages, custom dictionaries, timecode insertion, and the ability to selectively slice audio in the interface are all great features.

And the news, like identifying a speaker or some of the experimental languages, shows that this product is likely to be significantly improved in the future.

We were particularly impressed with the auto-transcription tool, which is an ideal platform for people to take parts of an existing recording and enrich them with their own thoughts and comments.

Overall, for those who conduct interviews and need to transcribe them for future reference, Transcribe by Wreally is an efficient and flexible option that doesn't require the installation of software.